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The Accreditation Game
The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (known broadly as NCATE, pronounced "en...
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Education and the Economy
For more than three decades, the United States has been scoring below the international...
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Women’s Work
Kingdom of Children
Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement
by Mitchell L. Stevens
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Barren Land
During the past four decades, poor countries worldwide have experienced a massive expansion of education. But the global mandarins who thought education would lead to surging economies have been sorely disappointed
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Tassels on the Cheap
Illustration by John Weber.
For more than a century the Department of Education has collected...
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Educational Jujitsu
Illustration by Dan Vasconcellos.
In their continuing efforts to extract more school spending from state...
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The Virtues of Randomness
Illustration by Craig Frazier.
The principle that social interventions ought to be evaluated has a...
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Unruly Crew
Federal legislation can move the states quite far, even if they don't ally comply with the letter of the law.