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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Darling-Hammond: Why Is Congress redlining our schools? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Darling-Hammond: Why Is Congress redlining our schools? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Darling-Hammond: Why Is Congress redlining our schools?

This was written by Stanford University Education Profession Linda Darling-Hammond, who directs the Stanford University Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and was founding director of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future. A former president of the American Educational Research Association, Darling-Hammond focuses her research, teaching, and policy work on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity. This first appeared in the Jan. 30, 2012, issue of The Nation .

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Santorum: I ‘shouldn’t have’ voted for No Child Left Behind

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has changed his mind about No Child Left Behind. A decade after voting for the education reform legislation, he said in a debate on Monday night that he was sorry he had approved it.

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