AM News: Cash Incentives Not All Failures
Race to Top Rules Aim to Spur Shifts in Testing EdWeek: Two types of grants will be awarded—one for "comprehensive assessment systems" and one for high school end-of-course tests...Governor: Texas should move to online textbooks Associated Press:Gov. Rick Perry proposed Wednesday that Texas abandon using traditional textbooks in public schools and replace them with computer technology... Education" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/education/08brfs-SCHOOLSWARNE_BRF.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(34, 68, 187); ">Schools Warned Against Sex EducationNYT: A prosecutor is urging schools not to follow a new state law which requires districts with sex education programs to tell students about contraceptives...New Orleans Schools See Progress Despite Troubles PBS: John Merrow reports on the use of alternative school programs in Louisiana and progress on negotiations between a teachers union and public schools in the nation's capital...Is Cash the Answer? TIME: In the city where Fryer expected the most success, the experiment had no effect at all — "as zero as zero gets," as he puts it. In the last city, something remarkable happened. 
