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Better Test Scores Lead to Better Lives and Strong Economy: Fact or Hunch?

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Fri, 02/10/2012
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Other
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It is rare that a pundit (and ardent reformer) lays out clearly and crisply the core assumption driving the past thirty years of school reform.

Creating Education Success at Home

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Thu, 12/15/2011
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Ed Week
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Despite the fact that the United States spends more per student on elementary and secondary education than any other nation except Luxembourg, students in a growing number of nations outperform

No more excuses for U.S. schools

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Tue, 12/13/2011
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Washington Post
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Many Americans, including me, are skeptical of efforts to portray our public schools as failures compared with those in the rest of the world

Smart people + big report = dreamy nonsense

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Fri, 02/18/2011
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Washington Post
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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2011/02/smart_people_big_report_mush.html

I had high hopes for the latest high-profile plan to save our schools.

Randi Weingarten: Don't scapegoat America's teachers

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Sun, 10/17/2010
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Washington Post
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/15/AR201010...

Last week in these pages, a group of school superintendents -- two of whom, Chicago Public Schools chief executive Ron Huberman and D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, have just announced their resignations -- laid out a "manifesto" for fixing America's schools. Although lofty in its stated aim to set a course for improving public education, the manifesto offered few concrete solutions, with one notable exception: shifting the sole responsibility to teachers.

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