Identify the Traits That Define a 'No Excuses' School
David Levin has a message for principals who want to turn failing schools into high-quality centers of learning: Two plus two equals five.
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David Levin has a message for principals who want to turn failing schools into high-quality centers of learning: Two plus two equals five.
Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews wrote about the consequences of 'no-zero' grading policies in a Washington, D.C., school in a Sunday article.
Jay Mathews of the Washington Post writes: Pessimism about American public schools runs deep, particularly with the latest federal sampling tests showing a sharp drop in achievement among 9-year-olds because
The university had requested an emergency order from the Supreme Court to stop the state court decision that ruled the university has to accommodate the YU Pride Alliance, a student group on campus, due to New York City’s anti-discrimination law.
The Chinese lawyer Chen Guangcheng, blind since childhood, self-taught in the law, defender of women’s rights to resist forced abortion, thorn in the side of local despots in his home district of Linyi in Shandong province, veteran of a four-year prison sentence on the spurious charge of “organizing a mob to disturb traffic,” and since then victim—along with his wife and