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How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education By Arne Duncan Simon & Schuster, 256 pages, $26.99 According to the opening pages of Arne Duncan's memoir How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure
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A Maine professor disgusted with a left-wing public-employee union is suing to try to force the state university system to stop recognizing the union as representing him and to stop deductions from his paycheck from going to the union. Jonathan Reisman, a tenured associate professor of economics and public policy
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When visiting Catholic college campuses with their teen-age children, two friends of mine did not limit their fact-finding mission to tours and speeches. They wandered the campuses and asked various students where the chapel was, and, if the students knew, they asked what time Mass was. The answer was often
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A commemorative issue of Education Next published in the spring of 2016 was devoted to comments on James Coleman's 1966 report titled "Equality of Educational Opportunity." In his article in that issue, economist and education researcher Eric Hanushek quoted the report's central conclusion:
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More children are being hurt in their homes; at least, more cases are being reported in my state of Maine. An excellent piece of reporting by Eric Russell of the Maine Sunday Telegram in Portland focuses on the overwhelmed state's Department of Health and Human Services.
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By Katie Lannan and Michael P. Norton STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo is shrugging off the state Legislature's unsuccessful attempts to address education funding inequities, but others are using this week's collapsed talks on Beacon Hill as an election-year rallying call for
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A bill that would have required all public school districts in Massachusetts that teach sex education to adopt state standards – which include a curriculum showing students how to use thin plastic wrap as a makeshift barrier – failed in the Massachusetts Legislature. The Massachusetts Senate passed Senate Bill 2128 by a
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I have a plan for Massachusetts public schools that will help their students become better people, more productive citizens. In schools, we will teach the Ten Commandments. Then we will move to the Beatitudes, and finally a summation of the two great commandments presented by that first century prophet Jesus
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