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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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I'm starting to understand the arguments against school choice. Why give parents a say in their children's education when, obviously, there are experts who know better?
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BOSTON — A funny thing happened on the way to the Senate's vote to pass legislation enacting comprehensive public school sex education when it became apparent that content that will be taught to children as young as 12 in Bay State classrooms is purportedly too randy to be discussed
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The president of the Massachusetts Senate announced Thursday afternoon that another state senator was out of line when she used a common slang term for oral sex while making a speech from the floor. Apparently, state Senator Linda Dorcena Forry offended the decorum of the Senate when she used such
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