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What the XQ Super School Design Challenge Gets Right
As we created the design challenge, we considered the past record and drew from the collective experience.
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Quality Counts Should Stick to Education
The release today of Education Week’s annual report card for states, Quality Counts 2010, promises to receive extraordinary scrutiny. CREDO assessed Quality Counts 2009 for Education Next, specifically focusing on the Chance-for-Success Index. We found that the rankings for states closely mirrored their demography, which says nothing about the value-add of schools.
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Quality Counts and the Chance-for-Success Index
Narrowing its scope to factors schools can control would give the measure greater value
Teachers and Teaching
Teach for America
Since 1990 the New York-based Teach for America (TFA) program has placed more than...