Posts Tagged ‘achievement gap’
Translating Education Reform into Action
by Paul Reville
June 4, 2010
A lot of national attention was paid over the past few months to a situation in Central Falls, R.I., where the superintendent took the action of firing all the high school’s teachers. What started off as a small story about a labor dispute between the administration and the teachers’ union at the high school catapulted ...
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Failure to Launch
by Lane A. Glenn and Suzanne Van Wert
February 7, 2010
A few years ago, Mathew McConaughey and Sarah Jessica Parker generated big laughs and big box office sales in Failure to Launch, an absurd comedy about a 26-year old man still living in his parents’ basement, spending his days watching television and playing video games while the world passed him by.
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