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What Mandates?
It’s been said, more than once, that the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a mandate that the federal government has failed to fund. Not true, in either respect. The law is neither unfunded nor, with one exception, much of a mandate.
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The costs of No Child Left Behind; choosing teachers
Costly estimates
In the article “Exploring the Costs of Accountability” (Feature, Spring 2004), James Peyser...
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Paying Teachers Properly
That the uniform salary “schedule” for teachers is obsolete and dysfunctional is a truth widely accepted but rarely challenged.
Opinion
Supplemental services; keeping good teachers
Siobhan Gorman’s “Selling Supplemental Services” (Feature, Fall 2004) was informative and engaging, but, like much of the discussion on the subject, it furthers a theme that school districts are the “bad guys.”
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The Children Left Behind
Now it is certain, on its third anniversary, that No Child Left Behind (NCLB)...
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Getting the Right Principals
Educating principals; unflagging the SATs; charter schools; more Mel Levine; the inequity of adequacy
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The pandemic and race dominate the discussion—for a second year.
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The Top 20 Education Next Articles of 2021
The pandemic and race dominate the discussion—for a second year.
The Stubborn Myth of “Learning Styles”
State teacher-license prep materials peddle a debunked theory
How Family Background Influences Student Achievement
Can schools narrow the gap?
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The era of explosive growth of network-run, “no excuses” charter schools is over. Tentatively emerging: “community-based” charter schools.
Don’t Ruin College by Making It Free
Threats to quality and innovation outweigh benefit of increased access.
