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Obama Unveils Grants Focused on Dropouts,
Turnaround Schools
Aiming to stem the dropout crisis and invest in a focus on turnaround schools, Pres. Obama proposed $900 million be made available next year for low-performing schools that opt for one of four reform models, which include firing the principal and even closing the campus. Read more in the New York Times and Los Angeles Times. Also, Chicago Public Radio focused on turnarounds on its 848 program.
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Scholar's School Reform U-Turn Shakes Up
Debate
New York Times - Mar. 2
Diane Ravitch, the
education historian who built her intellectual reputation battling
progressive educators and served in the first Bush administration's Education
Department, is in the final stages of an astonishing, slow-motion
about-face on almost every stand she once took on American schooling. Here's coverage from the New York Times, NPR, as well as two critical reads here and here.
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