Thursday, May 6, 2010

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Strauss: Race to Top winner failed on standards

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan (AP)













VALERIE STRAUSS
A School Survival Guide for Parents (And Everyone Else)
Posted at 6:30 AM ET, 05/ 6/2010

Harvard study gives Race to Top winners bad grades on academic standards

One of the two states chosen by Education Secretary Arne Duncan as a winner in the first round of the $4 billion Race to the Top competition has academic standards that earned the grade of ‘F’ in a new study by Harvard University researchers, while the other state got a ‘C minus.’
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JAY MATHEWS
What's Right and Wrong With Our Schools
Posted at 12:45 PM ET, 05/ 5/2010

What happens to my high schools list if Newsweek is sold?

I can assure you that as long as I am alive and capable of carrying on the delightful work of keeping in touch with educators at our most challenging high schools every year, the Top High Schools list will be published.
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