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The complete list of the 1,500 top U.S. high schools

June 14, 2009 - Public schools are ranked according to a ratio devised by Jay Mathews: the number of Advanced Placement, Intl. Baccalaureate and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school in 2008 divided by the number of graduating seniors. All of the schools on the list have an index of at least 1.000; they are in the topÂ 6 percent of public schools measured this way.

Education funding is a sticky issue.

Jonathan Alter June 11, 2009 - "Education is the dullest of subjects," Jacques Barzun wrote in the very first sentence of his astonishingly fresh 1945 classic, Teacher in America.

Write and Wrong

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By Newsweek Magazine
7-17-08
Book Reviews on EducationNews.org, Daily EducationNews, K-12
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A teacher who is psyched about engaging struggling students learns that bureaucracy is more important than pedagogy.

Calculating a New Approach

Peg Tyre
A report on math education fuels the debate about the Singapore model. What is it--and would it work here? This week, after two years of deliberation, the National Mathematics Advisory Panel released their report aimed at improving math education in this country. And you could almost hear the sound of textbooks--

Alter: No More Excuses For Bad Teachers

It's time to move from identifying failing schools to identifying failing teachers. Sounds obvious, but it hasn't happened in American education. The crazy thing about the education debate in the United States is that anyone with an ounce of brains knows what must be done. Each political party is about half right. Republicans are right about the need for strict performance standards and wrong in believing that enduring change is possible without lots more money from Washington.