Links in Education Week: October 4, 2006
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Links in Education Week: October 4, 2006

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This page provides links to reports and resources highlighted in this issue of Education Week. The headlines show the Education Week stories in which the references appear. The links below them will take you to resource materials on other Web sites.

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Scathing Report Casts Cloud Over ‘Reading First’

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District Leaders Said Not to Share Urgency for Education Reform

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Report Roundup

  • Student Technology Use:
    “Teens Learning—and Challenging—First Amendment Values” is available from the Future of the First Amendment.
  • Mental Health:
    “Youth and Mental Health Stigma” is available from Harris Interactive.
  • Charter Schools:
    “USC’s Compendium of Promising Practices: Innovations in Charter Schools” is posted by the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education.
  • Behavioral Drugs:
    View detailed results of the poll, available from HCD Health.
  • English-Language Learners:
    “The High Schools English Learners Need” is posted by University of California’s Linguistic Minority Research Institute.

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    Study Blasts Proposed Changes in Race, Ethnicity Data

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