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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

Education Next

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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Is collective bargaining for teachers good for students?

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More bias than evidence behind NRC panel’s conclusions

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