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School Vouchers

Every Day My Heart Gets Broken

Dennis Danziger | Posted 11.20.2009 | Los Angeles

Read More: Amy Friedman, School Vouchers, PEN in the Classroom, Lausd, High School Students, Public School, Culver City, Pen, Teacher Unions, Race to the Top, Los Angeles News
Dennis Danziger

Every day my heart gets broken. The hurt starts before I step foot onto my campus. I live six blocks from my work site in a diverse, middle-class nei...

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Education and Global Competition

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 11.03.2009 | Technology

Read More: Education, Capitalism, School Vouchers, Ron Huberman, Chicago Public Schools, Technology News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

How about focusing our dollars on teaching methodology? Whether it be public, private, parochial, or charter, we are not leveraging computing and communications technology to the hilt.

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Public Education: DC Vouchers Program Isn't the Answer

Rabbi David Saperstein | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, School-Vouchers, Vouchers, Public Education Reform, School Vouchers, Education Reform, Public Education, Separation of Church and State, Politics News
Rabbi David Saperstein

Taxpayer dollars should go where they are needed most: to improve public education for all of our nation's children.

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A Hard Look at Education

Cory Booker | Posted 06.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Newark, Cory Booker, Education Reform, School Vouchers, Charter Schools, Politics News
Cory Booker

In America now, I can confidently say that it is no longer a question of can we educate all of our children at equal and high levels -- it is a question of will we.

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Obama Practices Social Promotion

Gary Stager | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arne Duncan Education Secretary, Linda Darling-Hammond, School Vouchers, Diane Ravitch, Obama's Cabinet, School Reform, Standardized Testing, Barack Obama, Alfie Kohn, Politics News
Gary Stager

The "end of social promotion" has caused tens of thousands of kids as young as 3rd grade to be left-back, despite overwhelming evidence that this... children and increases the drop-out rate.

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Whom Will He Choose?

Martin Carnoy | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Investment in Education, Vouchers, Teacher Education, Charter Schools, Educational Reform, Secretary of Education, David Brooks, Linda Darling Hammond, Stimulus Package, Barack Obama, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama White House, Obama Secretary of Education, School Vouchers, Obama Education, Obama Appointments, Barack Obama Education Policy, President Elect Obama, Politics News
Martin Carnoy

With government as the investor of last resort, Obama has broad support to implement major changes in the educational, health care, and energy systems using federal money.

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McCain's Education Plan is Scary as Hell

Dan Brown | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Nea, John McCain, Early Childhood Education, National Education Association, No Child Left Behind, Community Schools, Barack Obama, Barack Obama 2008, Teacher Quality, Education, School Vouchers, Teacher Recruitment, Deregulation, School Choice, Head Start, Alan Greenspan, Education Reform, Election 2008, Free Market Ideology, Politics News
Dan Brown

Reforming America's inadequate public school system--a crucial priority for our country's future-- should not be undertaken with a failed ideology. Th...

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Your Education Policies Don't Figure: An Open Letter to John McCain

Martin Carnoy | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: School Vouchers, Barack Obama, Early Childhood Education, Education Policy, Teachers, Low-Income Children, John McCain, Lisa Graham Keegan, Politics News
Martin Carnoy

Here is what puzzles me: none of what you and Graham Keegan claim for vouchers is based on any available evidence.

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Obama Gets It on Education

Dan Brown | Posted 11.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Teacher Quality, John McCain, Education Week, Spending Freeze, School Vouchers, DC Public Schools, Teacher Recruitment, School Choice, Campaign K-12, Teach for America, Boston Teacher Residency, Barack Obama, Obama Education, Politics News
Dan Brown

Throughout the campaign, Obama has laid out workable plans to address our education crisis, but perhaps nowhere is his aim more dead-on than his campaign for recruiting and retaining good teachers.

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On Education Policy, Obama and McCain Clash Over Vouchers, Teaching 'Merits' and Funding

Susan Kelley-Stamerra | Posted 10.24.2008 | Home

Read More: Democrat, Debate, Argue, Money, Education, Afterschool, Funding, Mccain, Obama, Policy, School, Vp, Values, College, Faith-Based Initiatives, Palin, Barack Obama, School Vouchers, Election 2008, Home News
Susan Kelley-Stamerra

With Friday's first presidential debate just around the corner, it's time to examine some real policy differences before we get snookered by all the f...

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