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BusinessWeek July 10, 2006 William C. Symonds	Grading The Gateses Whether by e-mail or snail mail, reader reaction to a cover story about the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's efforts to fix failing high schools was passionate.
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Fast Company April 2000 Sara Terry	Schools That Think Everyone agrees: Education is essential for the future of the new economy. Everyone agrees: The public education system needs reform. No one agrees on how to do it. Here are four models for the future.
Teacher Magazine May 2000 David Hill	He's Got Your Number "I turned down four speaking requests yesterday," says William Sanders, a professor at the University of Tennessee's school of agriculture and, oddly enough, the man who has created a controversial method of judging the effectiveness of teachers and schools....
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T.H.E. Journal May 1, 2010 Vanessa Hua	A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance.
Salon.com May 11, 2001 Meg Robbins	The failure of testing President Bush wants to "test every child, every year." But a growing movement of families and teachers insists this is a formula for mediocre schooling and stressed-out kids.
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T.H.E. Journal June 2005 Gloria Bush	Logging on to Staff Development Enhancing your teachers' knowledge and use of educational technology through online professional development.
T.H.E. Journal January 2003 Wayne Moore	Facts and Assumptions of Assessment: Technology, The Missing Link The infusion of technology in schools has opened the door for opportunities to challenge governing bodies to use the technology to provide student assessment that will measure their abilities for connecting knowledge learned with real-world applications.
Reason June 2005 Lisa Snell	How Schools Cheat From underreporting violence to inflating graduation rates to fudging test scores, educators are lying to the American public.
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