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12.11.09 - PHILADELPHIA, December 10, 2009—Today, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) releases its 2010 report on campus speech codes, revealing that for the second year in a row,

12.10.09 - By Sandra Stotsky and Ze'ev Wurman - Every year seems to produce a burst of attention to a particular crisis in education. In 2009, the most publicized crisis is likely the staggering number of post-secondary students with severe debilities in reading and math.

12.7.09 - WASHINGTON, DC - Texas’s charter school law is one of the nation's weakest, according to a study released today by the national nonprofit Center for Education Reform. In terms of providing children with access to great public schools,

12.7.09 - Kandise Lucas, Ph.D. - Jane Austen’s epic novel, “Pride and Prejudice”, documents the conflicts regarding morality, equality, class, and educational opportunity as it relates to society and the underserved.

12.7.09 - Kandise Lucas, Ph.D. - Jane Austen’s epic novel, “Pride and Prejudice”, documents the conflicts regarding morality, equality, class, and educational opportunity as it relates to society and the underserved.

12.7.09 - Ron Isaac - If workers keep their mouths shut, their noses clean and stop busting chops and bucking their bosses, they will, if management sees fit, be paid fairly so that, provided they are not ingrates or spendthrifts

12.7.09 - WASHINGTON, DC - Texas’s charter school law is one of the nation's weakest, according to a study released today by the national nonprofit Center for Education Reform. In terms of providing children with access to great public schools,

12.5.09 -  Donna Garner - In my mind, anyone who thinks the U. S. Dept. of Ed. Is not heavily guiding the development of the Common Core Standards is not “reading the tea leaves right.”

12.4.09 - The Recovery tab of FedSpending.org allows searching of over 160,000 reports from recipients of almost $159 billion in contracts, grants, and loans awarded under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act

12.3.09 - The struggles of beginning teachers are many. Statistics show that 17%
of new teachers will not return for a second year. In the first three to five years of teaching, over 50% of the teachers will not return to the classroom.

12.3.09 - Tom Sticht - Each morning my wife and I take an early morning walk of about four miles around our home town of El Cajon, California.

12.2.09 - By Frank Salvato - Listening to the John & Cisco morning radio program here on Chicago's WIND AM 560 this morning, I was suddenly stopped dead in my tracks.

Coalitions have always played an advocacy role in policymaking, but they are increasingly regarded as a form of community capacity that can be harnessed to civic ends.

11.16.09 - By Peter Wood - The best issue ever of Academic Questions (vol. 22, no. 4) is hot off the press and in the mail to our members.  It focuses on academic “revisionisms”—the attacks on supposedly stale orthodoxies that have been the stock-in-trade of progressive scholars since the 1960s.