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You can find out at an AEI discussion featuring representatives of both campaigns on October 8.  The short answer is they they both support social entrepreneurial approaches like the America Forward ideas.   McCain, however, seems to be more into private sector vendors, especially around ideas like virtual learning, than Obama is.   Given the uneven quality of …

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In our last blog post, we outline specific policies and investments in Barack Obama’s comprehensive education plan-including from a significant education policy announcement and speech that Obama is making today.   Previous posts describing Obama’s underlying principles and his personal visits to schools and classrooms have provided a window into his approach to education and his …

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The Secretary of Education traveled to Detroit today to announce some new regulations around No Child Left Behind (pdf). AP here. Department of Ed’s page here. Senior administration aides say the choice of locale was not coincidental but intended to be a backdrop to drive home the scale of the educational challenge the country faces. …

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The note from Greg Richmond, below, describes Carlo Rodriguez and his work. I’d only add that he was a tremendously nice and good person and wonderful to spend time with. He will be missed. Dear Friends and Colleagues, Carlo Rodriguez, a passionate advocate for improved education for children in Florida and throughout the nation, passed …

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Kevin Carey did a nice job unpacking the pretty glaring problems with Monday’s WaPo op-ed on No Child Left Behind. Below is a guest post from Robin Chait, she’s a DC-based education policy consultant, that gets into the issue more. Want to respond, you can find Robin at this email. Robin Chait: In Monday’s Washington …

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RAND’s Brian Gill* responds to Charles Zogby about yesterday’s Philly Findings: The work that Marguerite Roza has been doing on resource allocation within school districts is important, and I’d like to see school districts across the country make those allocations more transparent, to increase within-district equity. In Philadelphia the supplemental funds given to private managers …

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All you need to know about the new Supplemental Education Services (read tutoring) pilots you can find from Ben Feller’s AP story and the Department of Ed’s link heavy release. It’s amazing the extent to which the Department is implementing the No Child law in an extra-legal way (Feller says “bend,” I hope he tries …

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The eagerly awaited Nina Rees missive on Supplemental Education Services is now out in Gadfly. It’s less about the significance of the SES program and more about its practical shortcomings. Rees says yes there is a quality problem, but then appeals to the school choice community to solve it! I buy the diagnosis but not …

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