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Bigger Classes Preferred Over Randomly Chosen Teachers, Survey Claims

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.02.2012 | Home
Read More: Education News, Class Size, Mike Petrilli, Teacher Unions, Teachers Unions, Ed-Lection 2012, Back to School, Teacher Layoffs, Education, Education Budgets, 112th Congress, Education Survey, Education Reform, Education Cuts, Sequestration, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Home News

As school districts suffer from increasing costs and not enough cash, only 11 percent of Americans are willing to pay more in taxes to fund communitie...

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The Nation's Young Hit Hard By Recession, Squeezed Out Of Early Education

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 03.18.2012 | Home
Read More: New York Schools, Public Pre-K, Washington D.C. Schools, Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators, Public Pre-Kindergarten, FPG Child Development Institute, Alliance for Quality Education, District of Columbia, Eliot Spitzer, New York Education, Early Education, National Institute for Early Education, Chester Finn, Prekindergarten, Pre-Kindergarten, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Pre-K, d.c. Schools, Head Start Program, Low-Income Students, Home News

WASHINGTON — The expansion in public prekindergarten programs has slowed and even been reversed in some states as school districts cope with shr...

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No A+ Student Left Behind?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.20.2011 | Home
Read More: Michael Petrilli, Education News, Education, No Child Left Behind, Northwest Evaluation Association, Fordham Institute, Student Performance, Standardized Tests, Diagnostic Tests, Computerized Tests, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Home News

In the eyes of Michael Petrilli, education discussions and policies based on the disparity in performance between subgroups of U.S. students -- known ...

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7 Essentials for Education Reform

Suzanne Tacheny Kubach | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: School Choice, Education Reform, Accountability, National Education Standards, Advocacy, PIE Network, National Council on Teacher Quality, Center on Reinventing Public Education, Center for American Progress, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Home News
Suzanne Tacheny Kubach

While urgency has increased and many fresh faces have taken up the cause, the core ideas guiding education reform have remained remarkably stable.

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