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Are High Schools Failing Their Students?
The NeedDoes earning a diploma guarantee that a high school graduate is ready for work and college? It should, for very ...
Source: The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
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Assessment Literacy in Today’s Classroom
The documentation of student learning and progress now plays a primary role in how our schools and educational programs ...
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Should Race be a Factor in Assigning Students to Public Schools?
The U.S. Supreme Court decides two major cases this spring involving the use of race in assigning students to public ...
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Educating Our Youth
What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?- Cicero, 106-43 B.C.EThe ...
Source: Faith and the City
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One Region, Two Environments
When Faith And The City invited me to write a guest column on the physical and social environments, I welcomed the ...
Source: Faith and the City
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Maker of SAT Aims New Test at 8th Graders
Officials at the New York City-based College Board last week rolled out their newest product: ReadiStep.No, it’s ...
Source: Education Week
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Study Says Most 1st Grade Classes Not High Quality
A study of 820 1st grade classrooms suggests that many are not as warm, friendly, and academically stimulating as some ...
Source: Education Week
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Sustaining Improvement Efforts Over the Long Run
Maintain: To keep in an existing state; CARRY ON, KEEP UP Sustain: To give support or supply with sustenance; NOURISH, ...
Source: The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement
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Factors Involved in the Slow Death of High Quality Public Education
I seldom watch network television programs. However, I am aware that two shows are particularly popular these days: CSI ...
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Early Childhood in Boston
Summary This report provides data regarding the supply, demand, and quality of early education and care in Boston. ...
Source: Early Education for All
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Charter Schools Uncovered: What We Learned Through Our Own Analysis About the Skewed Comparisons Between Our Schools and the Local Charters
In this era of unforgiving accountability and test scores with high-stakes implications, important lessons can be ...
Source: The Gale Group
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Education: Current Trends and Issues
As we have seen, public policy can drive the issues that create a cultural climate looking for change. Several issues ...
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What Happens to Those Underserved?
The failure of our present system of secondary education can be seen on two equally destructive fronts: in the form of ...
Source: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Findings From The Condition of Education 2009
Enrollment in America’s elementary and secondary schools continues to rise to all-time highs, and younger ...
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Achievement Gaps: How Black and White Students in Public Schools Perform in Mathematics and Reading
In 2007, mathematics scores for both Black and White public school students in grades 4 and 8 nationwide, as measured ...
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The Homework Debate
Many in the education field today are looking for evidence to support the case for homework, but are coming up empty...
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Is More School the Answer?
President Obama has called for several reform measures to be put on the table in an effort to improve student...
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Gender Gap: Why Boys Can't Keep Up
The classroom gender gap might not be what you expect: these days, it's more likely to be male students that just can't...
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Why School Cafeterias Are Dishing Out Fast Food
America is facing an obesity epidemic. So why are school cafeterias dishing out delivery pizza and brand-name burgers?
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School Spankings: The Corporal Punishment Debate
Many adults can recall being on the receiving end of an punitive smack to the backside during their schooling years. But...
Source: Education.com
