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  • August 2008

    • 'Saving' Public Schools Not a Money Thing

      Good Magazine  |  Aug 21, 08 4:29 PM CDT

      'Saving' Public Schools Not a Money Thing

      (Newser) - As dissatisfaction with the nation’s No Child Left Behind policy grows, it seems educators, politicians, and businessmen all have their own take on how to “save” the US public school system—with little consensus. Gary Stager, in Good , examines the overwhelmingly complex difficulties facing the nation’s ailing schools, and why responsibility—and a solution—lies with parents, not polemicists. More »

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      education  • Bill Gates  • public schools  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation  • No Child Left Behind  • Eli Broad

  • July 2008

    • McCain, Aides Often Part Ways on Policy

      Politico  |  Jul 31, 08 2:10 PM CDT

      McCain, Aides Often Part Ways on Policy

      (Newser) - Much has been made recently of John McCain’s difficulty in driving a message from his “eclectic and occasionally politically inconvenient hodgepodge of policy positions,” Politico says, but little has been said about how often the candidate’s top aides disagree with him. And while fewer public disagreements within the Obama campaign might be attributable to tighter messaging as well as the Democrat's shorter and less-maverick career, Politico takes a look. More »

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      John McCain  • climate change  • health insurance  • tax cuts  • Carly Fiorina  • Phil Gramm  • No Child Left Behind  • Douglas Holtz-Eakin

  • June 2008

    • Bush Loyalist Hits the Road to Save 'No Child'

      New York Times  |  Jun 12, 08 6:35 AM CDT

      Bush Loyalist Hits the Road to Save 'No Child'

      (Newser) - As George W. Bush has become less and less popular, so too has No Child Left Behind, his education initiative that one congressman calls "the most negative brand in the country." As the administration realizes that its principal domestic achievement is likely to be undone by the next president, Margaret Spellings, the education secretary, has hit the road to drum up support. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Bush administration  • education  • No Child Left Behind  • Margaret Spellings

  • May 2008

    • It's Time to Bring Back Geography to Classrooms

      American  |  May 22, 08 9:40 PM CDT

      It's Time to Bring Back Geography to Classrooms

      (Newser) - The impressive skills of 11-year-old Akshay Rajagopal—the nation's new geography bee champ—are all too rare. In fact, lots of Americans are geographically illiterate to an appalling degree, writes Evan Sparks in the American . At some point, the nation decided to leave the subject out of school curricula. Geography, for example, is the only core subject named in the No Child Left Behind Act that does not receive federal funding. More »

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      Iraq  • children  • education  • No Child Left Behind  • stupidity  • Geography

  • March 2008

    • School Supers Draw Big Bucks, Bigger Perks

      Christian Science Monitor  |  Mar 31, 08 11:52 AM CDT

      School Supers Draw Big Bucks, Bigger Perks

      (Newser) - Teachers aren't living in luxury, but some school superintendents are, the Christian Science Monitor reports. Some are pulling in $325,000 a year, plus multi-million-dollar consulting budgets to restructure impoverished, underperforming public school systems. The Monitor calls them "central office rock stars," a product of the No Child Left Behind initiative and sky-high pressures to balance budgets and politics. More »

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      education  • school  • teacher  • public schools  • No Child Left Behind  • school districts  • school board

    • Obama Quits School Reform Talk on Trail

      New Republic  |  Mar 12, 08 6:29 PM CDT

      Obama Quits School Reform Talk on Trail

      (Newser) - Barack Obama has been backing off post-partisan rhetoric on education, looking more like a stick-in-the-mud Democratic regular on schools and less like the reformer who supported test-based accountability and performance pay for teachers. The Chicagoan had bucked teachers' unions and other stodgy liberals, supporting charter schools in Illinois and mentorship programs in Washington, Josh Patashnik writes in the New Republic . More »

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      Barack Obama  • education  • No Child Left Behind  • charter school  • teachers' unions  • vouchers

  • December 2007
  • September 2007

    • 4th Grade Math Scores Add Up

      USA Today  |  Sep 26, 07 11:35 AM CDT

      4th Grade Math Scores Add Up

      (Newser) - American elementary school students have improved their math skills considerably, with 20% more fourth graders scoring "proficient" on standardized math tests than in 1990, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Reading skills show more modest gains. The number of students scoring proficient in reading has increased only 4% since 1992. More »

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      George W. Bush  • mathematics  • No Child Left Behind  • elementary school

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