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Washington Insiders Favor ESEA Flexibility in Theory but Not in Reality

By Michael Petrilli

It’s not just the President’s bizarre State of the Union request that states raise their compulsory attendance age to 18. No, I’m referring to the Army of the Potomac’s reaction to John Kline’s ESEA proposal and to Chairman Tom Harkin’s and Rep. George Miller’s response to the waiver requests put forward by several states.

Can Schools Rekindle the American Work Ethic?

By Chester E. Finn, Jr.

To do this our teachers and policymakers will need to reverse now-widespread practices and beliefs.

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City Students at Small Public High Schools More Likely to Graduate

1/26/12 | New York Times

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School Inflation

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A new MDRC study finds that students attending small high schools (with fewer than 100 students per grade) were more likely to graduate than students who attended larger schools. In an article that appeared in Ed Next in 2004, Chris Berry traced the decline and rebirth of small schools in America and looked at the impact of smaller schools on students’ future earnings over the course of the 20th century, as the movement to consolidate small schools into larger schools grew.

President Obama’s State of the Union Address

1/25/12 | New York Times

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Valuing Teachers

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In his State of the Union address last night, President Obama discussed the impact good teachers can have on their students' future productivity, stating "We know a good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom by over $250,000." In the Summer 2011 issue of Education Next, Eric Hanushek analyzed the impact of good teachers on the lifetime incomes of their students.

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Mickey Mouse Strikes Back
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By Joshua Dunn and Martha Derthick
For Digital Learning, the Devil’s in the Details
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By Michael B. Horn
The Accountability Plateau
In Texas and across the nation, high-stakes testing regimes produced real gains for a few years, then flat-lined
By Mark Schneider
Unions and the Public Interest
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More bias than evidence behind NRC panel’s conclusions
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