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A State-by-State Report Card on Educational Improvement
By Frederick M. Hess
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Center for American Progress, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and AEI
Monday, November 9, 2009
Regardless of current academic accomplishment, innovative educational practices are vital to laying the groundwork for continuous and transformational change.
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This second Education Stimulus Watch reports on the key education portions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by tracking their contributions to the legislation's three points of leverage for reform.
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Attitudes about Work in America
By Karlyn Bowman
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AEI Studies in Public Opinion
Friday, August 21, 2009
Poll questions asked by leading survey organizations show small changes in job satisfaction over the past quarter-century.
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The Politics of Teacher Retirement Plans
The tension at the heart of pension politics is the incentive to satisfy today's claimants in the here-and-now at the expense of long-term concerns.
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Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the federal government will spend an unprecedented amount of money on education--nearly $100 billion. Will this money lead to meaningful reform of our K-12 public education system?
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Which Colleges Actually Graduate Their Students (and Which Don't)
This report documents the dramatic variation in graduation rates across more than 1,300 of the nation's colleges and universities.
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Unleashing the Power of Innovation in Education
By removing barriers to innovation and reform and providing greater support for entrepreneurship, we can spur the critical and necessary new solutions to many of public education's greatest challenges.
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What Seeds for Freedom?
By Robert T. Gannett Jr.
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AEI Online
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Despite government efforts to contain it, Chinese villagers are using "village democracy" to gain the skills and mores of democratic, self-governing people.
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Good Intentions, Uncontrolled Local Discretion, and Compliant Federal Officials
One would assume that WIC's benefits would be targeted to the most needful Americans, but various formal and informal changes have liberalized eligibility criteria.
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Dynamic new ventures like the KIPP Academies, Edison, or Green Dot Public Schools are increasingly being asked to stand in for failing district schools.
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AEI Education Stimulus Watch The AEI Education Stimulus Watch (ESW) is a quarterly series of special reports on the K-12 education implications of the federal government's economic stimulus package. Adjunct scholar Andy Smarick tracks this unparalleled federal investment in schooling and examines whether these funds are yielding innovation and improvement or merely subsidizing the status quo.
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