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March 9, 2011
Education Secretary Arne Duncan told Congress today that his department estimates that 82 percent of America’s schools could fail to meet education goals set by […]
March 9, 2011
“The problem is poverty, not bad teachers.” Diane Ravitch, education historian “Teachers want what’s best for children. The teachers union is an institution built to […]
March 9, 2011
MADISON, Wis.—The Milwaukee teachers union has dropped a lawsuit seeking to get its taxpayer-funded Viagra back. The union sued in July 2010 to force the […]
March 8, 2011
Acting Comm. Christopher Cerf directly rebutted “myths” about charter schools at a State Board of Education meeting, according to The Record. Contrary to claims by […]
March 8, 2011
asks Megan McArdle of the Atlantic. Looking through her lens of economics, business, and systems management, McArdle makes a trenchant argument that the typical union/tenure/civil […]
March 7, 2011
A little cognitive dissonance with your coffee this morning? Here’s two sentences from the same article in today’s Star-Ledger: Only 22 percent of students in […]