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View Article  Quantity Counts: The Growth of Charter School Management Organizations
By way of truth in advertising, your editor wrote the first draft of a good part of this report.   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  Alex Molnar's Annual EMO Review
Something beats nothing. So the University of Arizona's anti-privatization Education Policy Research Unit puts out the de facto report of record.   more »
View Article  District Turn-Around By Replication?
School boards and providers: Beware the "one-trick pony"   more »
View Article  Student Information Systems - "Labor Saving" or "Labor Adding"?
Baltimore County's Articulated Instruction Model raises the question.   more »
View Article  Why Quality "Control" Is A Fool's Errand
But quality "assurance" isn't.   more »
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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 »
View Article  Clarifying Your Editor's Quotes in the August 1 Edweek
It's never so black and white. And the details are more interesting than such a portrayal implies.   more »