2010年10月15日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Charter Schools: The Good Ones Aren't Flukes (or Cherrypickers) (Time.com)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 01:50 PM PDT

Time.com - Although students at high-performing charters are admitted via lottery, the success of these top-tier schools isn't random and is very much replicable

RV's backfiring engine leads to NJ school lockdown (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 08:39 AM PDT

AP - Teachers thought they heard gunfire near a New Jersey elementary school, but it turns out it was just a backfiring recreational vehicle.

FACT CHECK: Obama's education claims missing facts (AP)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 08:26 AM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the backyard of a home in Albuquerque, N.M. Obama says almost every chance he gets that Republicans would cut education spending by 20 percent if their party wins control of Congress in the Nov. 2 elections. He also says they would repeal a new college tuition tax credit. But as he makes these assertions to draw contrasts between the parties and give voters a reason to keep Democrats in power on Capitol Hill, he's leaving out some important facts. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)AP - President Barack Obama says almost every chance he gets that Republicans would cut education spending by 20 percent if their party wins control of Congress in the Nov. 2 elections. He also says they would repeal a new college tuition tax credit.

Flunking His Midterms? (The Daily Beast)

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 07:19 AM PDT

The Daily Beast - Obama’s ambitious education agenda is in peril, as his allies face firing at the polls in November. Dana Goldstein on the shaky state of school reform.

"School Pride" papers over the truth about education (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 06:13 PM PDT

Reuters - Feel-good reality could hardly be warmer and fuzzier than it is on hug-inducing, tearful "School Pride," the education-focused equivalent of ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." If only producers Cheryl Hines and Denise Cramsey could have stopped right there. Just stopped and fixed the school and then, maybe, closed with an assembly and a round of "Kumbaya."

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