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Letters The Media and G.I. Joe... Charter Rebuff... Three Priests and a Rabbi... Teen Demons... |
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By the Book: Exploring One School's Success with a Technology-Based Reading Program The Web-based Lexia Reading includes three different levels (early reading, primary reading, and strategies for older students) and is designed to help students acquire and improve foundational reading skills. |
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Shame of a Nation A New York Times article ironically shows how far we still have to go. |
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Reading, Writing, and Revenue From New York to San Francisco, Edison Schools Inc. has been selling the idea that for-profit management companies can do a better job of teaching kids than public-school districts. But a growing number of educators say the reality doesn't match the hype... |
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Video Game Prepares Texas District for State Test Austin Independent School District in Texas is expanding the use of the DimensionM educational video games to seven middle schools and 15 charter schools. |
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Information Today
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Learn It Online Offers Tablets to Students Learn It Systems works with public, private, and charter schools on academic, enrichment, and specialized learning programs that reach more than 100,000 students in 200-plus school districts. |
Salon.com
May 30, 2000
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The charter school challenge Notes from two pioneering California charter schools -- one a success story, the other a failure. |
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Education According to Mike Milken With K12, the largest U.S. operator of taxpayer-funded online schools, the former junk-bond king has figured out how to make money in education. Is that a good thing? |
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About Thurgood Marshall Academy Learn more about this year's Foolanthropy recipient. |
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Lessons From Privately Managed Schools An interview with Steven Wilson, founder and former CEO of educational management organization (EMO) Advantage Schools on how -- and if -- professional business management practices can improve the performance of troubled American public schools. |
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No Dollars or Sense Behold Edison Schools' grim, dispiriting bottom line: The company has spent more money than it has taken in. It has nothing to do with the education industry or public education, and everything to do with too many top-level executives making six-figure salaries. |
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8 Facts You Didn't Know About the ACT and SAT In honor of test-taking season, here are some valuable statistics to know about the two tests. |
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Charter School Trailblazer: Michael Brown Advisor Michael Brown has been on the board of trustees for the East Harlem Tutorial Program for several years, and he was one of the founding members of the East Harlem Scholars Academy. |
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ISKME Special Series Part 4: Using Data to Improve Instruction Connecting the dots: how to use data to get from districtwide goal-setting to school-level performance. |
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October 1, 2010
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Dream On: Visionary Educators and Their Big Ideas The four educators we've chosen to spotlight as visionaries conceived, developed, and guided technology-driven initiatives perhaps initially thought to be impractical. |
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Georgia District Drives Savings Through Energy Initiative Marietta City Schools launched a competition among the schools in the district that led to energy and cost savings in every school in the district. |
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Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
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Movie-House Investor Dives Into the Charter-School Space A real estate investment trust that works mostly in the megaplex movie-theater business is quickly learning that the charter-school industry is a smart place to put its money these days. |
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Breaking Through Reading Barriers After using a tech-based reading program with struggling readers and special education students, fourth-grade inclusion teacher Ashlee Ritzko witnessed a new phenomenon: Students that were reluctant or resistant readers were suddenly excited about reading the novels. |
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Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
Fast Company
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It's Teacher Salaries, Stupid Chris Whittle's book, "Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education," is a provocative look at proposed radical school reforms. |
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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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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. |
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THE Journal's 2007 Innovators : 5 Examples of how classroom technology helps to engage students and raise test scores. |
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Information Today
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Foolanthropy's 14th Year Is a Success! Thanks to the Fool community for helping raise money for Washington, D.C.'s Thurgood Marshall Academy. |
