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After taking advantage of Florida school choice for her children, one mother moves to North Carolina--and gets an unpleasant wake-up call. 

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Michael Strong takes a look at the cultural and social benefits that would arise from widespread school choice.

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The school choice program in our nation's capital could be in jeopardy.

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Two 65% spending proposals are on the Colorado ballot, and both are thoroughly misguided.

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The story of academically gifted Gracia Malaxetxebarria, who lives in the state of Queensland in Australia, is not an uncommon one--except that her mother went to uncommon lengths to see justice done.

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Four years later, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has provided few American families with real options. 

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The best of charter schools and the best of district-run public schools have much to teach others. 

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Five years can feel like a lifetime in politics, where momentum can be a stronger force than gravity. For the Bush Administration, five years invested in implementing and defending No Child Left Behind has created a sense of ownership over all aspects of a law that was the result of heavy negotiations.  This was apparent […] Read more »

In the Summer of  2001 Dame Marie Clay, creator of the New Zealand based Reading Recovery program, and her entourage came to the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, DC, to speak with House Education Committee Staffer Bob Sweet.  Her purpose was to ascertain whether Reading Recovery would be eligible for Reading First funding once […] Read more »

Could Australia offer a creative middle way out of the national standards debate?

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