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• Straddling the Democratic divide: will reforms follow Obama's spending on education? 

  Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Senate confirmation hearing in January was thick with encomiums. He was praised by Democrat Tom Harkin of Iowa...

  03/22/09 by Richard Lee Colvin · More from publication

• Teacher training, tailor-made: top candidates win customized teacher education 

  One May afternoon in Boston, 85 teachers in training arrived at the bayside campus of the University of Massachusetts for a three-hour class called...

  03/22/09 by Katherine Newman · More from publication

• Teacher retirement benefits: even in economically tough times, costs are higher than ever 

  The ongoing global financial crisis is forcing many employers, from General Motors to local general stores, to take a hard look at the costs of the...

  03/22/09 by Robert M. Costrell · More from publication

• Choice benefits 

  The most intriguing aspect of the study of the relationship between the proportion of pupils in nongovernment schools and achievement on the PISA...

  03/22/09 by Charles L. Glenn · More from publication

• IES under Whitehurst 

  When Andrew Rudalevige interviewed me for his recent article ("Juggling Act,"features, Winter 2009), the National Board for Education Sciences, an...

  03/22/09 by Robert C. Granger · More from publication

• Milwaukee choice finance 

  Robert Costrell's analysis of school choice finance in Milwaukee ("Who Gains, Who Loses?" research, Winter 2009) fills a gaping void. Throughout...

  03/22/09 by George Mitchell · More from publication

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