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Blog Entries by Tom Vander Ark from 07/2010

Don't kill the guys that will make the US #1 again

| Posted 07.15.2010 | Politics
Read More: Higher Education, Sen-Harkin, Private Sector, Barack Obama, For-Profit Colleges, Politics News

President Obama thinks the US should lead the world in post secondary degree completion by 2020. That will take more than 5 million graduates. Where...

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Is Obama's EdReform in Trouble?

| Posted 07.22.2010 | Politics
Read More: Common Core, Education Reform, Arne Duncan, Nclb, Barack Obama, Politics News

We're raising standards at a time when almost one third of US kids drop out and another third leave high school unprepared to earn college credit. We need to double-down on the current dropout prevention efforts.

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Let Change Happen

| Posted 07.31.2010 | Politics
Read More: Online Learning, Innovation, Arne Duncan, Uncf, Naacp, Barack Obama, National Urban League, Race to the Top, Politics News

The situation in US K12 education is really bad: states are broke and the calcified system is unable to respond creatively; deep inequities persist; a...

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