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As part of a $143 million settlement in a price-fixing dispute between several large music companies and 43 state governments, the record companies were required to donate $76 million in CDs to school districts and libraries. But Rolling Stone reports in its August 5th issue that rather than give top-shelf stuff, many of the labels …
More trouble in DC: Not only are there too few spaces in well-performing schools (and simply too few DC schools that aren’t low-performing) to provide transfer options for all students entitled to transfer to better performing schools under NCLB. Today, the Washington Post reports that the district doesn’t have enough money to provide suplemental services …
Today Mathematica Policy Research is releasing a new study on the effectiveness of Teach For America (TFA). TFA places exceptional recent college graduates in teaching positions in underserved communities. This is the third such major study done.* Here is the punchline: The study — examining TFA teachers in six regions (Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, New …
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