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Study of Test Scores Finds Charter Schools Lagging |
by Diana Jean Schemo
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23 Aug 2006
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The study found that in 2003, fourth graders in traditional public schools scored an average of 4.2 points better in reading than comparable students in charter schools on the National Assessment of Educational Progress test, often called the nation’s report card. Students in traditional schools scored an average of 4.7 points better in math than comparable students in charter schools... The study also compared traditional public schools with charter schools in central cities serving mostly minority students and found no significant difference in reading achievement at the different schools. However, math scores at such urban charter schools still lagged those at traditional schools, except when those charters were affiliated with local districts.
“We know they are not doing harm,” Mr. Schneider said of charter schools, “so they pass a fundamental test of policy analysis.”
But this was weak praise considering that proponents of charter schools have long argued that students at these institutions would show progress far greater than those at neighborhood schools. |
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America's Other Perpetual War: $40 Billion a Year to Deny Defeat |
by Pierre Tristam
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23 Aug 2006
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The country is addicted to the bureaucracy of the war. It keeps prisons in business. It keeps police departments fattening up their ranks. It lets politicians on the stump freebase on tough-sounding rhetoric, cost-free. It is the law-enforcement establishment's bottomless welfare plan, with more dire results than social welfare ever caused those on the dole. For all its "welfare queen" myths and admitted failures, social welfare programs had their millions of successes, keeping people out of poverty or helping them through bad patches. The drug war is a legacy of victims. Its only true winners are its enablers and dependents -- government and law enforcement -- who, experiencing its futility firsthand, should have been leading the charge for reform decades ago. But they're too addicted to 12-step their way out of it. |
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An example of Communal Harmony- Indian Madarsas |
by TANVEER JAFRI
tanveerjafriamb (nospam) gmail.com (verified) |
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22 Aug 2006
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It should be hoped that the Madarsa education system of Indian state West Bengal & their this rare example of all religion equality in the direction of communal harmony would keep an ideal before the world. |
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News :: Children : Education : Globalization : Media : Miscellaneous : Peace |
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The Hidden Draft in Our Schools |
by Captain Eric H. May
captainmay (nospam) prodigy.net (verified) |
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22 Aug 2006
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With a vast majority of the US public disapproving of the quicksand war in Iraq, how can American educators continue to allow unchecked and unscrupulous recruiting in our high schools? A former Army officer takes a look at the problem of gutless school leaders who let their students be turned into Bush League cannon fodder -- then offers some suggestions on how to change things. |
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Local Journalist-in-Residence Explains Context of Destruction of Lebanon |
by David Green
davegreen84 (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
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22 Aug 2006
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A recent journalist-in-residence at UIUC has brilliantly explained the historical context of the destruction of Lebanon and the collateral deaths of 1,000 civilians in the following paragraph in The New Republic. |
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7 Facts You Might Not Know about the Iraq War |
by Michael Schwartz
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22 Aug 2006
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Here, then, is a little guide to understanding what is likely to be a flood of new Iraqi developments -- a few enduring, but seldom commented upon, patterns central to the dynamics of the Iraq war, as well as to the fate of the American occupation and Iraqi society. |
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Review :: Government Secrecy |
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Was September 11 a Great Conspiracy? |
by Matthias Krause
mbatko (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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22 Aug 2006
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More than ten million have watched "Loose Change" on the Internet since April.. 42 percent of Americans believe the US govt and the 9/11 commission concealed things in connection with the attacks. |
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News :: Civil & Human Rights : Crime & Police : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Israel / Palestine : Regime |
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A Proportionate Response |
by Kathy Kelly
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22 Aug 2006
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Of what military value, as a target, is a school, an entire block of residences, a town square, a favorite swimming hole? Why is it strategically valuable to drop many hundreds of cluster bombs that fall in gardens and along roadsides between small farming villages?... Both legally and rationally, you cannot say “everyone living there is Hezbollah. You can’t just walk away from the appalling damage and say, they were warned. Or can you? Can a state get away with it, backed up by other world bodies? |
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Endovasc,Montgomery,Texas:Stock Fraud and Mid East Money Launderer Dwight Cantrell is dead |
by Tony Ryals
endoscam (nospam) lycos.com (verified) |
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21 Aug 2006
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Note the link to the Houston Chronicle obituary that does not mention either cause of death nor that Mr. Cantrell was a major
'player' in Endovasc of Montgomery, Texas,a penny stock fraud that dumped worthless penny stock shares around the world including through the Kuala Lumpur and Dubai boiler room Bellador Group.The Houston Chronicle and houston.bizjournals.com are both proof of why Texas needs its indymedias and Houston needs houston.indymedia.org . Thank you Houston and Texas indymedia people.The FBI certainly won't investigate either. |
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