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Ed Next Research Finds NCLB Has Produced Substantial National Gains In Math Skills

5.10.10 - How has the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act affected student achievement? This is no idle question

D.C. charter officials worried about new contract to well above $100,000

5.20.10 - The proposed new D.C. teachers contract, which could boost some salaries to well above $100,000, is causing tremors in the city's non-unionized charter school...
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'Non-traditional' college students share struggles - video series

5.20.10 - What comes to mind when you hear "college student"? To many Americans, it's someone who goes to college straight from high school, lives in a dorm, and gets a degree...
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To fight 'dropout factories,' school program starts young

5.20.10 - PHILADELPHIA — The day has barely begun here at Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences, a middle school in the city's northeast corner, and Adam Jackson already is using his...