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The Gap Grows
Black, Hispanic and poor children are catching up to Asian and White classmates in Texas. Click to read more daily news updates about education reform.
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Colleges Losing Their ROI
The cost of college is squeezing out the middle class and reducing return on investment; $25k/yr for a string of keggers and lousy lectures is no bargain. Increasing completion will take innovation and private participation.
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Teached — Film Clip
Kelly Amis, a former corps member of Teach for America, is making a film about the systemic gaps in the American education infrastructure.
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Fareed’s Economic Fix
America's problems are not economic, demographic or technological. They are political. Simple policy measures can change our fate. If we built out our infrastructure, kept monetary policy pro-growth and reformed our tax code to encourage business investment, we would have growth, a manageable deficit and a bright future.
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Happy 2nd Bday: Chrome & Edmodo
Google's browser Chrome is about to overtake Firefox as the top TechCrunch reading browser. Edmodo added user number 500,000 today--what a cool birthday present. Teachers love Edmodo because it makes it easy and safe to share the web.
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What Stuck? Key EdReformer Question
What Stuck? What faded? As an EdReformer, it’s interesting to think about the investment of time and money with a little hindsight. Seven years ago, Caprice Young chaired the LAUSD board. She went on to run the California charter association and is now CEO of KCDL, a leading…
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Paul O'Neill, Stanley Kaplan, and USED staff
1. Paul O’Neill may be the best charter school attorney in the US, certainly the best east of the Mississippi, by virtue of handling a high volume of charter contracts for more than decade. Paul’s Charter School Law Deskbook is the definitive book on the subject. He…
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Fordham Releases Study On Performance Trends of Top Students
Photo Courtesy of Fordham The Thomas Fordham Institute released today “Do High Flyers Maintain Their Attitude? Performance Trends of Top Students,” a study that examines high-achieving students over time. The study reports found that 30 to 50 percent of America’s best students fail to maintain their performance levels…
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10 EdTech Impact Opportunities
There's never been a better time to make a difference. Trends in learning, opportunities in different categories and new pathways in the shift from web to mobile are providing opportunities to create impact.
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Debating Petrilli’s Post “One size fits most” for Ed Reform
By Bruno Behrend We education reformers are a fractious lot. We like to debate each other more than we like to take on the obstacles to transforming education. One exception to this rule is Mike Petrilli of The Fordham Foundation. He is well known for his tendency…