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Literature or Technical Manuals: Who Should Be Reading What, Where, and Why

Stotsky, Sandra - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 9 (2013) 1, pp. 1-12

. Others deplore what they see as a drastic reduction in literary study, the traditional focus of high school English as well …

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Gang Membership Risk Factors for Eighth-Grade Students

James Martinez, Jeremy Tost, Larry Hilgert; … - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 9 (2013) 1, pp. 1-31

influences, family conditions, school experiences and the community context, along with demographic information obtained from the … Student Gang Survey items. Through logistic multiple regression, risk factors associated with school, peer, community … for Peer Risk, School Risk, Family Risk and demographic variables are additionally discussed. The current research …

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Private Data -- The Real Story: A Huge Problem with Education Research

Milgram, R. James - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 8 (2012) 5, pp. 1-8

A very influential paper on improving math outcomes was published in 2008. The authors refused to divulge their data claiming that agreements with the schools and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act rules (FERPA) prevented it. It turns out that this is not true. The claimed legal...

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The Rot Spreads Worldwide: The OECD - Taken In and Taking Sides

Phelps, Richard P - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 9 (2013) 2, pp. 1-27

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Letter to sponsors

Stotsky, Sandra - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 9 (2013) 4, pp. 1-3

I feel that I owe you, as well as all the individuals and organizations that recommended me for Common Core’s Validation Committee, an explanation for why I could not sign off on the final version of the Common Core State Standards. I did not sign off because I could not “validate” the...

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All Teachers Can Learn Mathematics; All Students Can Learn Mathematics From Teachers Who Know Mathematics

Dancis, Jerome - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 8 (2012) 1, pp. 1-1

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Quality versus Quantity

Stamm, Daniel - In: Nonpartisan Education Review 7 (2011) 6, pp. 1-8

This essay compares American and Asian education and illustrates how quantity is chosen over quality in the U.S. in the areas of teacher training, research in education, curriculum and textbook design, and the level of education given highest priority. After demonstrating that Japanese...

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