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VALERIE STRAUSS
A School Survival Guide for Parents (And Everyone Else)

Posted at 8:00 AM ET, 04/29/2010

What does being “college and career ready” mean?

It is one of President Obama’s key education reform goals: Ensuring that all students who graduate high school are “college and career ready” by 2020 is one of President Obama's key education reform goals. But what does that mean?
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JAY MATHEWS
What's Right and Wrong With Our Schools

Posted at 10:00 PM ET, 04/28/2010

Why high schools shun senior projects

If my campaign to require senior projects in Washington area public high schools was itself a senior project, I would be getting a C-minus. My inspiration, the long-standing senior project program at Wakefield High School in Arlington County, is still in good shape. But few other schools show any interest in trying it out, despite what seem to me obvious benefits.
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