Quick Hits — By the Numbers
8% The percent of respondents in a recent survey of 900 school board members conducted by Frederick Hess and Olivia Meeks who said that the most important goal of education is to prepare students for...
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Profiting from state dollars without state oversight. The Miami Herald has produced an investigative series on Florida’s charter school movement, which has grown into a $400-million-a-year business...
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DC Finally has Grad Rate Data, Now the Hard Work Begins
Michelle Obama at Anacostia High School's graduation in 2010 (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) I love a good headline. Yesterday DCist reported: ‘D.C. Schools’ Graduation Rate Falls,...
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How do you like them now? Learning Matters checks in on Shelbyville, Ind., which six years ago was pictured on the cover of TIME magazine next to the headline “Dropout Nation.” Nowadays, the community...
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For those list-lovers. College Measures ranks community colleges, based on the percentage of students who graduated or transferred to a four-year university within three years. (CNNMoney) How about the...
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Repairing the pipeline. This paper looks at the gaps in college-going rates among California students versus their minority peers. Education Sector analysts have also outlined how California schools...
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Think before you act. In order to reform Pell grants (and other student financial aid), policymakers must first know more about the programs that exist: which work best, for which students, and in what...
View ArticleIt’s (Mostly) All Relative
With President Obama’s re-election last night, we can be even more confident that the Administration’s No Child Left Behind waivers are likely to continue, at least until they expire in 2014*. The...
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Getting more high-schoolers on the graduation stage. Flexible, online courses; tuned-in counselors; and technical training programs at the high school level are some of the initiatives noted in states...
View ArticleSchool Closings: The Sad Case of Levin High School
In 1997, Jonathan Levin, the son of former Time Warner Chair Jerry Levin and a dedicated high school teacher in the South Bronx, was murdered in his home by one of his students. The apparent motivation...
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