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Salary Totals Found Lower in Poor Schools
- “Shortchanging Poor and Minority Schools: California’s Hidden Teacher Spending Gap” is available online from The Education Trust—West.
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Groups Tackle Teacher Quality in Needy Schools
- “Qualified Teachers for At-Risk Schools: A National Imperative” is available online from Education Commission of the States.
Study: Teacher-Designed Math Curriculum is Effective
- More information on the Stanford Mathematics Teaching and Learning Study is available online from Stanford University.
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Turning the Tables: Teens Design Test
- A link to the GAG test is available from Cottonwood Press.
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Report Takes Aim at First Year of D.C. Voucher Program
- “Flaws and Failings” is available online from People for the American Way. ()
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Texas Urged to Beef Up Oversight of Poor Charter Schools
- *Check on Monday “Texas Roundup: Charter Schooling in the Lone Star State” is available online from the Progressive Policy Institute.
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Teaching & Learning Update
- Teacher Training in Math Leads to Higher Scores:
Read more about the study, “Teacher Leaders for Mathematics Success.”
- Reading Teachers See Few Changes under NCLB Law:
Read the results of the International Reading Association survey.
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Report Roundup
- Sex Education Study Compares Curricula:
“Comprehensive Sex Education vs. Authentic Abstinence: A Study of Competing Curricula” is available online from The Heritage Foundation.
- Preschoolers’ Health:
An abstract of “Overweight Among Low-Income Preschool Children Associated With the Consumption of Sweet Drinks: Missouri, 1999–2002" is available online from Pediatrics.
- Chicago Dropouts:
“Graduation and Dropout Trends in Chicago: A look at cohorts of students from 1991 to 2004" is available online from the Consortium on Chicago School Research.
- District Competition:
“Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students and Taxpayers? A Comment on Hoxby” is available online from Education Research Section at Princeton University. ()
