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What do you call the seller if you label new English Language Arts test items as more rigorous than those on the original tests with the same name and then sell another state these new English Language Arts test items knowing that parents there expect the original test items, not
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Homeschooling has been legally recognized in all 50 states as a viable education choice for families since 1993, but the battle to protect homeschooling rights is far from over. All too frequently, state legislators, local policymakers, and school district officials create new roadblocks for homeschooling parents, challenging their right to
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As Dan Goldhaber noted in his article in the Spring 2016 issue of Education Next: "Of the characteristics [of teacher quality] that were measured in the still-revered 1966 Coleman report titled Equality of Educational Opportunity, those that bear the highest relationship to pupil achievement are first, the teacher'
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So far as we know, low achievement hasn't been remedied by any of the strategies or programs that educators or policy makers have tried out since 1965 — the date of the first authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. We've already made a mess of
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As the dean of a prominent graduate school of education noted in an article published several years ago: "Schools are not the major cause of the achievement gap." He also noted how ineffective most education reforms have been and how little improvement we have seen. It is understandable
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The biological male formerly known as Bradley Edward Manning has two qualifications for becoming a visiting fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government: betraying the country and seeking to have genitalia chopped off. Imagine some other former U.S. Army specialist getting an appointment at Harvard without those
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Yesterday as today, what we call reading skills heavily influence academic achievement. They further influence the development of writing skills beyond the early years of schooling when writing is almost a transcription of a child's speech patterns. The development of reading skills, especially a reading vocabulary, and then
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Students at Stanford University will be offered a course this fall that will "consider … abolishing whiteness." The anthropology course, called "White Identity Politics," is being offered by the university's Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity Department.
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