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Alternate Route Principals Not So Bad After All, New York Times Admits
A new NYU study finds that schools assigned new elementary and secondary principals trained by the Aspiring Principals Program of the New York City Leadership Academy outperformed other city schools with new principals who came through traditional routes in English Language Arts, and matched their performance in math.
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School Choice Research: Will Evidence Ever Count?
Earlier this month, Mike Petrilli moderated a Fordham Institute discussion about whether charter schools had eclipsed private school vouchers as the most promising education reform.
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Ted Kennedy, R.I.P.
More than anyone else who comes to mind in American public life, Edward M. Kennedy ascended from reprobate to icon, from an object of criticism, even ridicule, to statesman.
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Principals and Teachers Unaware That Courts Defer to Schools When It Comes to Discipline
Courts have given school authorities broad powers over student discipline. So why do students...
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A Modest, and Perhaps Naïve, Proposal
Yesterday the Board of Education for the city of Los Angeles voted to allow private operators to run up to one third of the district’s public schools.
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The Special Ed D.C. Bubble
One of the (many) problems with education policy analysts is that a large number of them live in or around Washington, D.C.
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Don’t Think Too Highly of Yourself
A few years ago, in the 2006 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning? researchers found a correlation that went against 40 years of prevailing wisdom in education circles.
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What Is to Be Done (by the U.S. Department of Education)?
As the education blogosphere turns its attention from Secretary Duncan’s Race to the Top fund to his Investing in Innovation fund, economist Eric Hanushek offers his take on what federal education policy can and cannot accomplish.
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National Standards: Rush to Judgment?
Writing in the Baltimore Sun earlier this week, the Lexington Institute’s Robert Holland and Don Soifer reject the idea of national education standards on three grounds.
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Opinion Divided: Making Private Milwaukee Schools Public?
Major changes this year to Milwaukee's 20-year old voucher program please some and dismay others.
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