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The New York Times
December 21, 2005 |
| Lisa Hwang thought she would end up with an impressive job at a research institute or possibly the World Bank after receiving a master's degree in international education administration and policy analysis from Stanford University in May 2004...
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School Reform News
November 1, 2005 |
| Since its inception in 2000, the Media and Technology Charter High (MATCH) School in Boston has drawn its predominantly black and Hispanic students largely from the city's poorest demographic, and most of its students enter 9th grade achieving well below grade level. Yet 100 percent of its 2005 graduates went on to college...
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The Boston Globe
October 21, 2005 |
| Governor Romney seemed a tad disappointed not to spot a row of TV cameras when he, Education Commissioner David Driscoll, and Boston School Superintendent Thomas Payzant strode into a Wednesday press conference...
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The Boston Herald
September 29, 2005 |
| The statistics below list Bay State schools with the highest and lowest performance in MCAS testing in 2005...
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Massachusetts Department of Education
September 28, 2005 |
| The uneven results seen on the 2005 MCAS exams prompted education officials on Wednesday to call for educators statewide to recommit to helping all students move to Proficient on the state's mandatory assessment test...
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Boston Magazine
September 2005 |
| What if there were a simple way to give every student more personal attention? What if teachers had more creative ways to teach math and reading, measure what kids really know, address the unique learning needs of boys and girls, and get parents involved in their children's education?...
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Dollars and Sense II Lessons from Good, Cost-Effective Small Schools |
KnowledgeWorks Foundation
2005 |
| This report deepens the argument for small schools in three important ways. First, analysis of more than three thousand constructions projects shows that smaller schools are no more expensive than larget schools...
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Blueprint Magazine
July 23, 2005 |
| One of the toughest and most important public policy changes facing the country right now is to turn around failing urban high schools. Under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), many of these schools will soon be required to restructure, hire new principals, or retrain teachers...
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The Boston Channel
July 2005 |
| An unusual summer program is pairing up students from some of the poorest Boston neighborhoods with tutors from MIT. NewsCenter 5's Janet Wu reported that the program at Boston's MATCH Charter School is the only one of its kind in the country, and students say it's a perfect match...
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MetroWest Daily News
July 3, 2005 |
| When Ronald Reagan took the oath of office in 1980, less than a tenth of the world's manufacturing exports came from developing nations. Labels that read "Made in Taiwan," or any other Asian nation for that matter, indicated a low cost, low quality alternative to a far superior product "Made in the USA"... |
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MetroWest Daily News
July 3, 2005 |
| Every day, Principal Charlie Sposato begins the day at the Media and Technology Charter School in Boston by welcoming all his students with a handshake, and at the end of the day, he bids them farewell, but not until they have told him one thing they learned that day...
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WCVB Boston
March 24, 2005 |
| Each week, NewsCenter 5 presents a high school senior who has taken the lessons of the classroom and applied them to life. This week's A Plus student is MATCH High School's Rondel Corlette...
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The Washington Post
January 15, 2005 |
| Ten years ago I founded a public charter school. Like most charters, it was not located in an affluent suburb with high-performing public schools, but in a desolate urban neighborhood of South Los Angeles...
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The Boston Herald
January 3, 2005 |
| Everyone starts the new year with lists. So here are 10 things about education reform that I bet you didn't know...
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