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• For-profit and nonprofit management in Philadelphia schools: what kind of management does better than the district-run schools? 

  The federal law No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requires states to "restructure" any school that fails for six years running to make Adequate Yearly...

  Education Next, 03/22/09 by Paul E. Peterson · More from publication

• What is good for General Motors … is good for education 

  "What is good for the country is good for General Motors--and vice versa," pronounced proud Charlie Wilson, the former GM chief who became...

  Education Next, 03/22/09 by Paul E. Peterson · More from publication

• The home-schooling special: today's choicest choice 

  For those who think about school choice, vouchers and charter schools are canonical. But going by the numbers, home schooling is the choicest item...

  Education Next, 01/01/09 by Paul E. Peterson · More from publication

• What happens when states have genuine alternative certification? we get more minority teachers and test scores rise 

  Forty-seven states have adopted a pathway to teaching, alternative to the standard state certification otherwise required. Is this new pathway...

  Education Next, 01/01/09 by Paul E. Peterson · More from publication

• The next president had many school choices; Will he provide similar opportunities for others? 

  Not since Abraham Lincoln have we had a president with as unusual an early education as the one experienced by the man who will take office on...

  Education Next, 09/22/08 by Paul E. Peterson · More from publication

• Few states set world-class-standards: in fact, most render the notion of proficiency meaningless 

  As the debate over the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) makes its murky way through the political swamp, one thing has become crystal...

  Education Next, 06/22/08 by Paul E. Peterson · More from publication

• Today's education-industrial complex: why aren't schools an issue in the 2008 election? 

  Results from the latest international tests arrived just as Education Next was going to press. In math and science, the United States again trailed...

  Education Next, 03/22/08 by Paul E. Peterson · More from publication

• 2008 Ad 

  Put foreign policy first, theorist Niccolo Machiavelli once advised his 16th-century Florentine prince. It's not bad advice for 21st-century...

  Education Next, 09/22/07 by Paul E. Peterson · More from publication

• Politics first, students last: a well-heeled commission issues a weak-kneed report 

  From Aspen, Colorado, still another education commission reports. Armed with Gates and other foundation dollars and headed by two former governors,...

  Education Next, 06/22/07 by Paul E. Peterson · More from publication

• The entrepreneurs and the New Commission: changing minds in the education establishment 

  It's not that the latest commission said anything much that was actually "new," despite its name. The entrepreneurs participating in this issue's...

  Education Next, 03/22/07 by Paul E. Peterson · More from publication