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The State of State Standards 2006
Michael J. Petrilli , Chester E. Finn, Jr. / August 29, 2006
Two-thirds of schoolchildren in America attend class in states with mediocre (or worse) expectations for what their students should learn. That's just one of the findings of Fordham's The State of State Standards 2006, which evaluates state academic standards. The average state grade is a 'C-minus'--the same as six years ...
Fund the Child
June 27, 2006
Everyone agrees that education funding today is a mess. But a broad, bipartisan coalition now urges a new method of funding our public schools--one that finally ensures the students who need the most receive it, that empowers school leaders to make key decisions, and that opens the door to public ...
The State of State World History Standards 2006
Chester E. Finn, Jr. , Martin A. Davis, Jr. , Walter Russell Mead / June 6, 2006
Is America's K-12 education system preparing students for life in a global village? Unfortunately, it is not. Renowned historian Walter Russell Mead, author of this report, found that thirty-three states deserved D or F grades for their world history standards. ...
Trends in Charter School Authorizing
Michael J. Petrilli , Chester E. Finn, Jr. , Rebecca Gau / May 3, 2006
Belatedly, policymakers and researchers are recognizing that quality charter schools depend on quality charter school authorizing. This report presents findings from a pioneering national examination of the organizations that sponsor, oversee, and hold accountable U.S. charter schools. Its primary aim is to describe and characterize these crucial but little-known organizations. ...
Playing To Type? (2006)
Dick Carpenter , Chester E. Finn, Jr. / May 2, 2006
Most discussions of charter schools assume that they are monolithic. This study, the first of its kind, categorizes the nation's charter schools into a robust typology according to their educational approaches. It also provides demographic information by type,how many are in each category, what their student populations look like, and ...
Fwd: Teacher Education: Coming Up Empty
Kate Walsh / March 16, 2006
The nation's leading teacher educators made a startling admission last year in their tome, Studying Teacher Education, by conceding there's little evidence that what happens in ed schools helps in the K-12 classroom. Kate Walsh explores why teacher educators are ignoring the achievement gap and, thus, consigning their field to ...
