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Wurman-Evers Cascading Plan for a Common Core Pathway to Algebra in 8th Grade

7.10.10 - Ze'ev Wurman & Bill Evers - The California Academic Content Standards Commission is

Texas may eliminate provision that raises school accountability ratings

7.10.10 - There goes the neighborhood! Soon Texas schools may not be able to use a provision that lets them earn higher accountability ratings than they would on student...
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Daley gets heat on pick for CPS education post

7.10.10 - Mayor Daley is encountering some resistance in his effort to make the founder and former principal of his daughter's Catholic elementary school the new chief education...
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7.10.10 - Then the researchers, led by Richard Allington of the University of Tennessee, looked at those students’ test scores. They found that the students who

Transparency law for Texas professors sets off academic freedom debate

7.10.10 - A law requiring Texas' public colleges and universities to post detailed course information online

Texas may eliminate provision that raises school accountability ratings
7.10.10 - There goes the neighborhood! Soon Texas schools may not be able to use a provision that lets them earn higher accountability ratings than they would on student performance alone.

Daley gets heat on pick for CPS education post
7.10.10 - Mayor Daley is encountering some resistance in his effort to make the founder and former principal of his daughter's Catholic elementary school the new chief education officer for the Chicago Public Schools, City Hall sources say. If Mary Ellen Caron is tapped as chief education officer, she would be the first white and non-CPS educator to assume that post since Daley won control of the city's public schools in 1995. ...

The Medium Is the Medium
7.10.10 - Then the researchers, led by Richard Allington of the University of Tennessee, looked at those students' test scores. They found that the students who brought the books home had significantly higher reading scores than other students. These students were less affected by the "summer slide" - ...

What They're Doing After Harvard
7.10.10 - NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY - Teach for America now attracts 12% of all Ivy League seniors. The program's founder explains why it beats working on Wall Street. In the spring of 1989 Wendy Kopp was a senior at Princeton University who had her sights set on being a New York City school teacher.

Commentaries

Texas Fails High School
As should be obvious, Texas is no place for a liberal education. But, with Thomas Jefferson and evolution in the cross-hairs, policymakers in the Lone Star State have overlooked a far more dangerous trend: the appalling high school dropout rate.

Conferring Privilege: DOJ, Law Schools, and the New Politics of Race
Peter Wood - On the 45th anniversary of affirmative action, a law school association is working against colorblindness. The resignation of career official J. Christian Adams from the Justice Department in protest over the Department's decision to dismiss its charges against the New Black Panther Party has put a spotlight on a legal theory that apparently has considerable support in the Obama administration. The

Encyclopedia of Sustainability, 4th Edition
Ashley Thorne - A 4th edition of the NAS 'sustainapedia' of the key names, terms, books, colleges, and organizations in the campus sustainability movement. ...