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Finalists Cram for Race to Top Presentations

Fifteen states and the District of Columbia prepare for next week’s high-stakes pitch for $4 billion in stimulus grants. ...

Draft Common Standards Elicit Kudos and Criticism

The draft released today tries to describe the grade-by-grade skills and knowledge students need in English and math to thrive after high school. ...

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A new report shows that 31 states now have such standards, but many have yet to embrace matching "comprehensive" accountability systems. ...

For a greater global payoff, writes Joseph Piro, give the science, technology, engineering, and math acronym an A—for the arts. ...

Sidney Trubowitz looks back 50 years and wonders how his first class of 4th graders would have fared if he'd been worried more about test scores. ...

District leaders should steer clear of the ubiquitous word "transparency" until they've figured out what it means, Patrick F. Quinn writes. ...