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Revising No Child left Behind Policy: Can Obama's Blueprint Fix Bush's Education Policies? - Jost, Kenneth - CQ Researcher, April 16, 2010, v20, #15, pp337-360

How to Get the Teachers We Want
- Hess, Frederick - Education Next, Summer 2009, v9, #3, online edition

Florida’s Online Option - Tucker, Bill - Education Next, Summer 2009, v9, #3, online edition

Forum: The Future of No Child Left Behind
- Ravitch, Diane; Chubb, Daniel E. - Education Next, Summer 2009, v9,#3, online edition

Assessment and Innovation in Education - Looney, Janet - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Education Working Paper #24, July 16, 2009, 61p (PDF)

Meaningful Measurement: The Role of Assessments in Improving High School Education in the Twenty-First Century - Alliance for Excellent Education, June 2009, 208p (PDF)

Diplomas and Dropouts: Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don’t) - Hess, Frederick M. et al. - American Enterprise Institute, June 2009, 80p (PDF)

The American Advantage
- , - The American Interest, May/June 2009, online edition, 8p (PDF)

The Condition of Education 2009 - U.S. Department of Education & The National Center for Education Statistics, May 28, 2009, 359p (PDF)

Stimulating Excellence: Unleashing the Power of Innovation in Education - The American Enterprise Institute; Center for American Progress; New Profit; Public Impact; The Annie E. Casey Foundation; The Broad Foundation, May 2009, 44p

A New Goal for America’s High Schools: College Preparation for All -
Haskins, Ron; Kemple, James - Brookings Institution, Policy Brief, Spring 2009, 8p (PDF)

Comparative Indicators of Education in the United States and Other G-8 Countries: 2009 - National Center for Education Statistics, Web posted March 25, 2009

Rethinking the Federal Role in Elementary and Secondary Education
- Center on Education Policy, March 18, 2009

Mini-Digest of Education Statistics, 2008 - Snyder, Thomas D. - National Center for Education Statistics, March 2009, 77p (PDF)

Building the Movement to End Educational Inequity - Kopp, Wendy
The Education Digest, March 2009, v74, #7, pp10-14

Stimulus Plan Critical for School Budgets - Cook, Glenn - American School Board Journal, March 2009, v196, #3, pp6-7

Wrong Turn on School Reform - Hess, Frederick M.; Petrilli, Michael J.
Policy Review, February/March 2009, #153, pp55-68

School Turnarounds: Resisting the Hype, Giving Them Hope - Hess, Frederick M.; Gift, Thomas - American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Eductaion Outlook, February 25, 2009, 5p

Obama and Education: The Task ahead - Cook, Glenn - American School Board Journal, January 2009, v196, #1, pp7-9

2008 State Teacher Policy Yearbook – What States Can Do to Retain Effective New Teachers - National Council on Teacher Quality, 2009

Are Too Many People Going to College? Murray, Charles - The American, September/October 2008, online edition

Does Spending More on Education Improve Academic Achievement?
Lips, Dan; Watkins, Shanea J.; Fleming, John - Heritage Foundation, Backgrounder #2170, September 8, 2008, 20p

24/7 School Reform - Tough, Paul - New York Times Magazine, September 7, 2008, pp17-19

Special Analysis 2008: Community Colleges - National Center for Education Statistics, Report released August 20, 2008

Foreign Science and Engineering Presence in U.S. Institutions and the Labor Force - Matthews, Christine M. - Congressional Research Report, updated July 23, 2008, 25p

Descriptive Summary of 2003-04 Beginning Postsecondary Students: Three Years Later - U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, July 2008 (pdf file, 240 pages)

Out of Many, One: Toward Rigorous Common Core Standards From the Ground Up - Achieve Report, released July 2008, 31p

The Burden of the Humanities - McClay, Wilfred M. - Wilson Quarterly, Summer 2008, v32, #3, online edition, 8p

How Do We Transform Our Schools? Christensen, Clayton M.; Horn, Michael B. - Education Next, Summer 2008, v8, #3, online edition


Has Student Achievement Improved Since 2002? State Test Score Trends Through 2006–07 - Kober, Nancy; Chudowsky, Naomi; Chudowsky, Victor - Center on Education Policy, June 25, 2008, 164p

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders - Facts, Not Fiction: Setting the Record Straight - College Board with the National Commission on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Research in Education, June 8, 2008, 44p

Preparing all Youth for Academic and Career Readiness - Implications for High School Policy and Practice - Wills, Joan
Center for Workforce Development, Institute for Educational Leadership, June 2008, 63p

In the Basement of the Ivory Tower -   Anonymous - Atlantic Monthly, June 2008, pp68-73

Education and Tech Entrepreneurship - Wadhwa, Vivek; Freeman, Richard; Rissing, Ben; et al. - Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, May 2008, 16p

Where the Girls Are: The Facts about Gender Equity in Gender Education - Corbett, Christianne; Hill, Catherine; St. Rose, Andresse
American Association of University Women, May 2008, 124p

Homeschooling:
A Growing Option in American Education - Lips, Dan; Feinberg, Evan - The Heritage Foundation, Backgrounder #2122, April 3, 2008

Learning to Teach: Alternatives to Trial by Fire - Trautmann, Nancy N. - Change, March/April 2008, v40, #2, pp40-47

Protecting and Promoting Academic Freedom in Perilous Times: A Philanthropist's Perspective - Bernstein, Alison R. - Change, March/April 2008, v40, #2, pp7-10

Why Do Higher-Education Costs Rise More Rapidly Than Prices in General? Archibald, Robert B.; Feldman, David H. - Change, May/June 2008, v40, #3, pp25-31

A Nation Accountable: Twenty-five Years After A Nation at Risk
U.S. Department of Education, April 28, 2008, 28p

A Nation Still at Risk: The Case for Federalism and School Choice - Lips, Dan - The Heritage Foundation, Backgrounder #2125, April 21, 2008

 

Marketing Civility - Stiles, Michael; Tyson, Ben - American School Board Journal, March 2008, v195, #3, pp36-37

Education and Economic Growth - Hanushek, Eric A.; Jamison, Dean T.; Jamison, Eliot A.; Woessmann, Ludger - Education Next, Spring 2008, v8, #2, online edition

When Education Research Matters - Hess, Frederick M. - Education Outlook, American Enterprise Institute, February 4, 2008, 6p

First, Kill All the School Boards - Miller, Matt - Atlantic Monthly, January/February 2008, v301, #1, pp92-97

Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination - Bodilly, Susan J.; Augustine, Catherine H; Zakaras, Laura - RAND Corporation, Monograph Series, 2008, 109p

Election 2008: The Education Debate - Education Next, Winter 2008 v8 #1, online edition

American Teachers: What Values Do They Hold? - Slater, Robert
Education Next, Winter 2008, v8, #1, online edition

The 2007 Brown Center Report on American Education: How Well Are American Students Learning - Loveless, Tom - Brown Center on Education Policy, December 11, 2007, online edition, 32p

You Say You Want an Evolution? A Role for Scientists in Science Education - The Coalition of Scientific Societies, December 2007, online edition, 12p

The Pangloss Index: How States Game the No Child Left Behind Act
Carey, Kevin - Education Sector, November 13, 2007, online edition, 21p

Making School Place Where Everyone Succeeds: Belonging is Necessary for Learning - Steele, Claude - The National School Boards Association, September 2007, online edition, 9p

Racial Diversity in Public Schools - Jost, Kenneth - CQ Researcher, September 14, 2007, v17, #32, pp745-768

What Americans Think About Their Schools - Peterson, Paul E. - Education Next, Fall 2007, online edition

Will NCLB Hit the Wall - Education Next, Fall 2007, v7, #4, online edition

Held Back: No Child Left Behind Needs Some Work - Hess, Frederick M., Finn, Chester E. - Policy Review, August-September 2007, #144, online edition, pp45-58

To Teach or Not to Teach? Teaching Experience and Preparation Among 1992-1993 Bachelor's Degree Recipients 10 Years After College - National Center for Education Statistics, July 2007, online edition, 112p

World Youth Building a Future - eJournalUSA: Society & Values, July 2007

College for All? - Black, Susan - American School Board Journal, June 2007, v194, # 6, pp51-53

The Condition of Education 2007
- National Center for Education Statistics. Published May 31, 2007, online edition

Subsidizing Higher Education through Tax and Spending Programs
- Maag, Elaine; Mundel, David; Dickson Rice, Lois; Rueben, Kim
Urban–Brookings Tax Policy Center, May 2007, online edition

A World in Three Aisles - Lewis-Kraus, Gideon - Harper's Magazine, May 2007, v314 #1884, pp47-57

Fixing Urban Schools: Has No Child Left Behind Helped Minority Students? Clemmitt, Marcia - CQ Researcher, 04/27/2007, v17 #16, pp361-384

Discussion Paper: Secondary School Student Exchanges in the United States - Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, April 2007, online edition, 22p

Why We Fight: How Public Schools Cause Social Conflicts - McCluskey, Neal - Policy Analysis, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.  January 23, 2007, online edition, 60p

The Costs and Benefits of an Excellent Education for All of America’s Children - Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, Columbia University Teachers College, January 2007, 22p

The Future of Public Libraries in an Internet Age - Wooden, Ruth A.
National Civic Review, Winter 2006, v95, #4, pp3-7

The New Ivory Tower - Clausen, Christopher - Wilson Quarterly, Autumn2006, v30, #4, pp31-36

Real Success with a Virtual Exchange: The German and American Politics Electronic Classroom - Olsen, Jonathan; Zimmer, Annette; Behr, Markus - PS, Political Science & Politics, Apr 2006, v39, #2, pp.351-356

Education Myths - Greene, Jay - The American Enterprise, Jul/Aug 2006, v17,#6; pp16-22

Business-Education Partnerships in the U.S.: Committed to the Future
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Civic Leadership Center, June 2006, 62p

The Condition of Education 2006 - National Center for Education Statistics, 2006

Higher Education, Inequality, and the Public Good - Tannock, Stuart - Disssent, Spring 2006, v53, #2, pp45-52

Lost in America - McGray, Douglas - Foreign Policy, May/Jun 2006., #154; pp40-48

Generations after Darwin, Evolution still on Trial - Cochran, John -
CQ Weekly, Aug 8, 2005, pp. 2170 - 2174

Youth Indicators 2005: Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth - U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, July 2005, 124p

What I Did on My Summer Vacation - Wenk, Michael - English Journal. (High school edition), July 2005., v94, #6, p42-, 7p

The Politics of Literacy - Davenport, David; Jones, Jeffery M. -
Policy Review, Apr/May2005, #130, pp45, 13p

 



 

 

 

 

 

 


 





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