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View Article  Feds Two Years Overdue in Review of States Under NCLB
The Department of Education's political leaders have not proved "highly qualified" to manage our emerging market.    more »
View Article  Bipartisan NCLB II Discussion Draft
Released by Representatives Miller, McKeon, Kildee and Castle.   more »
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View Article  IDEA Offers Funding for NCLB Title I School Improvement Services
The optional 15 percent "Early Intervening Services" set-aside in IDEA for "struggling students" just short of special needs is an underappreciated funding stream.   more »
View Article  8/21: The Podcast
Why Didn't the Industry Stay In With the Outs?   more »
View Article  What Works Clearinghouse on Beginning Reading
The programs that should have been eligible for purchase under Reading First - or not.   more »
View Article  Checker Finn On NCLB II
It's about the Senate, stupid. And what do you know about "real options?"   more »
View Article  Giuliani Reiterates Support for Public School Vouchers
It may win him something with the Republican right. But what else?    more »
View Article  The News Hour's NCLB Series Offers A Warning
Your editor sees a new timeline for NCLB reauthorization. It may give the school improvement industry the breathing room it needs to survive - if the industry adopts a new strategy.   more »
View Article  8/14 New Education Economy®
Re: Cost Analyses of NCLB - Those Completed and Never Done   more »
View Article  States Anticipate Change to AYP in NCLB II
The market effect is significant and, in the case of Alabama, easy to see.   more »
View Article  The House Education Committee's Ranking Republican Replies to Chairman Miller's NCLB II Speech
Reading the tea leaves in Buck McKeon's remarks. And what about two dogs that no side of the NCLB II discussion has encouraged to bark?   more »
View Article  Checker Finn and Rick Hess Call SES "Unworkable." So What?
When the intellectual wing of public education's political right rejects a market-based option, there's a problem.   more »