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Making Schools Work Better for All Children


For Florida State University; Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University; Manhattan Institute

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PROFESSIONAL COMPENSATION FOR TEACHERS  New

Read the latest recommendations from America's second
largest teacher's union

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Have reform efforts paid off?

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Congressional General Accounting Office
Report: Commercial Activity in Public Schools

Click here to read the executive summary and download
the report (requires Acrobat Reader)

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By Tyce Palmaffy

How Texas jumped to the head of the class
in elementary school achievement


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Congressional General Accounting Office
Report: Effects of Title I on School Readiness

Click here to read the executive summary and download
the report (requires Acrobat Reader)

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U.S. Department of Education
An explanation of the Bush education Plan

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Study indicates that teacher methodology is as or
more important than class size

for reviews of the study see:


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(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

In 1998-99, the Education Trust conducted a survey of 1,200 schools that had been identified by the states as their top scoring and/or most improving schools with poverty levels over 50%. The principals of 366 of these high-performing, high-poverty schools responded. The results of this survey are summarized in this report along with a directory of these schools that are proving every day that poverty need not mean low expectations.

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Should we ignore top professors & Nobel laureates who say:
science textbooks 'riddled with basic errors - terrible books'
math teaching methods ''horrifyingly short on basics and dangerous'
'honors high school texts no more difficult  than eighth grade reader before World War II'

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Abstinence Education - an update




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A Memorandum to the President-Elect and the 107th Congress
From
Chester E. Finn, Jr., Bruno V. Manno
and Diane Ravitch

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A report by the Traditional Values Coalition

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Other Reports and Assessments:

The education establishment vs. social conservatives. Millions of children in the middle

This comprehensive report will drive policy Into the next decade. You need to know what it says, both good and bad. It may be your job to educate your local school board when these strategies are brought to them for approval.

Whole Language Lives On: by Louisa Cook Moats

Two looks at progress in Education since the publication
of the landmark study "A Nation at Risk"


The Metropolitan Life Survey of the American Teacher, 2000 - Parents and teachers have different views on the quality
of American schools

21st Century" - A must read study published by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

and Junior High achievement by Education Week



Read the debate between Chester E. Finn, Jr. of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation,
and Linda Darling-Hammond of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future


Webmaster's note: The Brown Center is affiliated with the Brookings
Institution, a liberal think tank. I was a bit surprised to find that this study
was not spun to defend the NEA and the educratic establishment.

Sight of the Objective - Student Learning by Mike Antonucci, Director, Education Intelligence Agency

An analysis by the Center for Education Reform

The Cost of Remedial Education - A revealing study by

 Do Computers in the Classroom Boost Academic Performance?  - A report by Kirk A. Johnson, Ph.D.

A Heritage report by Nina Shokraii Rees and Jennifer Garrett

Where Do My NEA Dues Go? - A report by the Education Intelligence Agency

How does your income compare to your child's teacher's income? - American Federation of Teachers Salary Statistics

The Texas Education Consumers Association and Dr. E. D. Hirsch, Jr. have teamed up to break the code used to disarm parents





 





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