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CHARTERS: Fighting For Relevance
on Jun 23, 2009 by Alexander Russo (Scholastic)

It's the best and worst of times for charter schools right now. What they need to focus on next isn't expansion for expansion's sake, however, or even culling the herd to improve overall effectiveness. They need to make themselves relevant and useful to improving public education. And Arne Duncan and George Miller need to help.

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City’s Graduation Rates Improve
on Jun 22, 2009 by Javier C. Hernandez (New York Times)

The city's four-year graduation rate climbed four points last year, to 56 percent for the class of 2008, with students learning English showing significant gains, the State and City Education Departments announced on Monday.

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Truth in Teaching
on Jun 10, 2009 by The New York Times

Education reform will go nowhere until the states are forced to revamp corrupt teacher evaluation systems that rate a vast majority of teachers as "excellent," even in schools where children learn nothing.

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Peanut-Butter Politics
on Jun 08, 2009 by Jonathan Alter (Newsweek)

"Education is the dullest of subjects," Jacques Barzun wrote in the very first sentence of his astonishingly fresh 1945 classic, Teacher in America.

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American Tests Fail the Test
on Jun 03, 2009 by Tom Vander Ark (Huffington Post)

One of the top two reasons we don't have the schools we need is the way we test kids (the other is work rules for adults, but that's subject for another day).

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Charter schools offer greatest opportunity for achievement
on Jun 03, 2009 by Al Fan (Stillwater Gazette)

Last week, Geoffrey Canada, Harlem Children's Zone founder and CEO, had more than 1,000 Minnesotans spellbound when describing his remarkable journey to eliminate the racial and poverty achievement gap in one of American's most challenging urban environments.

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No Ordinary Press
on Jun 03, 2009 by James Forman Jr. (TruthOut)

How much can schools improve the life prospects of children growing up in poor neighborhoods?

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In Politics of School Reform, Transparency Doesn’t Equal Accountability
on May 26, 2009 by Andrew J. Rotherham (U.S. News & World Report)

Transparency is powerful and President Obama has rightly made it a pillar of his administration's approach to policymaking. But transparency also offers the seductive promise of an easy way out for policymakers.

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Joe Williams: Comptroller lacks authority to audit charter schools
on May 19, 2009 by Joe Williams (The Buffalo News)

Fifteen charter schools, along with the New York Charter Schools Association and the New York City Charter School Center, sued the state comptroller in 2007 because the New York State Constitution under Article V limits the entities in which the comptroller is permitted to audit to political subdivisions of the state.

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The Fight For Educational Equality in America
on May 16, 2009 by Tom Vander Ark (Huffington Post)

Handed down 55 years ago, the Warren Court's decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As we remember the anniversary of this important decision, we can celebrate some progress but should feel a profound sense of shame for the vast inequities that low income and minority children continue to face growing up in America.

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