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New Study Supports PRI Education Report
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 3.25.2003
The influential education research organization EdSource recently published a report that supports key findings in They Have Overcome: High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools in California. That Pacific Research Institute study, released in fall 2002, profiled eight public elementary schools whose low-income students achieved at high levels. The PRI study analyzed the curricula, teaching methods, standards implementation, and other factors at these schools and found a common formula for success.
Calaughfornia Here We Come
Submitted by K. Lloyd Billingsley on 3.19.2003
A new bill continues the California tradition of government by pronouncement, a practice that further distances the state from reality and adds to its image as a national laughing stock.
Teacher Union Priorities: More Taxes, No Accountability
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 3.5.2003
Those who doubt that teacher unions are the largest obstacle to improving education in California should consider the recent policy proposals of the state's two major unions, the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) and the California Teachers Association (CTA).
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