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The Education Exchange: The Pandemic Is Killing Standardized Testing and the Accountability that Comes...
"Favoritism, rich parents getting new kinds of advantages for their kids, the lacrosse coach and the speech coach and the trip to Bhutan will end up counting for more rather than less, because there won't be an SAT score," Chester Finn, Jr. warns.
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The Education Exchange: Thomas Sowell’s “Charter Schools and Their Enemies”
They stand in opposition “utterly without regard to whether particular charter schools are producing good or bad educational outcomes.”
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The Education Exchange: Condoleezza Rice on the “Deep Visceral Wounds of Slavery”
"We've got to have a bumper sticker for the school choice movement, and it's got to be, 'save the kid.' Not save the schools; save the kids," the former secretary of state says.
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The Education Exchange: A Lot of Lost Ground: Results from the Education Next Survey...
"Across a range of the questions that we asked, you see a more robust response in the charter school sector and in the private school sector."
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The Education Exchange: A Landmark Supreme Court Decision on Scholarships for Religious Schools
State constitutions cannot forbid legislatures from aiding religious schools.
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The Education Exchange: How the “Structural Racism” Talk Undermines Individual Agency
Public Prep’s Ian Rowe on “the contrast between the 23 unarmed black people that were killed by police in 2018 and the more than three million who were in college or graduate school.”
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The Education Exchange: How Do Charter Schools Affect Traditional Public Schools?
“We haven’t seen big negative effects really for anyone,” Marcus Winters says. “It puts the burden back on the side that would say that expanding charter schools harms public schools or harms kids in public schools.”
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The Education Exchange: How America Responded to the Pandemic of 1957-58: “Almost the Exact...
“In 1957-58, there were no economic lockdowns. There weren’t even school closures,” Niall Ferguson says. “There was a consensus that the right thing to do was to keep the show on the road.”
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The Education Exchange: Will Charter Schools Open This Fall?
“It’s very important to have some sort of solution to what you do with students in the fall, if you are interested in reopening the economy and sending their parents back to work,” Nina Rees says.
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The Education Exchange: First Year of College Available Online, Tuition-Free
“A tripling of interest when coronavirus first broke out.”
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