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Senate Report Hints at Future Direction for ESEA
8.27.10 - Language buried in a report on a Senate appropriations bill may provide a glimpse of the bar Congress will set for judging the effectiveness of school improvement interventions.

Children's grasp of the 3Rs at its worst in a decade: One in five struggling to spell at age seven
8.27.10 - Almost 105,000 seven-year-old pupils fail to reach the writing standards expected of their age this spring, struggling to use capital letters and spell words. ...

Kindergartens see more Hispanic, Asian students
8.27.10 - The kindergarten class of 2010-11 is less white, less black, more Asian and much more Hispanic than in 2000, reflecting the nation's rapid racial and ethnic transformation....

HISD families could get up to $1,020 if kids master math
8.27.10 - Fifth-graders at select Houston ISD schools will get richer for passing math tests - and their parents will get paid, too - under a rare experiment to try to boost student performance with cash incentives totaling as much as $1,020 per family.