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Saving Young Men With Career Academies
By usual measures of student progress, America's high school career academies have been a failure. One of the longest and most scientific education studies ever conducted concluded they did not improve test scores or graduation rates or college success for urban youth. People like me, obsessed with...
 

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In Praise of Senioritis
Why is it that we parents and educators who warn against slacking off senior year are the same people wringing our hands over the academic stresses of high school?

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Aiming for the Middle
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Community College Transfer Mess (By Jay Mathews, June 2, 2008; 6:13 AM)
 
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Few Solutions In Book on Charters (By Jay Mathews, May 26, 2008; 4:36 AM)
 
Insiders Report on the Challenge Index (By Jay Mathews, May 19, 2008; 6:33 AM)
 
Take That AP Test or Flunk (By Jay Mathews, May 12, 2008; 6:54 AM)
 
Making Teacher Hiring Less Comfortable (By Jay Mathews, May 5, 2008; 10:51 AM)
 
What to Do With Gifted Students? (By Jay Mathews, April 27, 2008; 9:22 PM)
 
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A Challenge Index Boycott of Sorts (By Jay Mathews, April 14, 2008; 6:06 AM)
 
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Ways to Measure Schools Without High-Stakes Testing (By Jay Mathews, March 31, 2008; 11:32 AM)
 
A Decade of the Challenge Index: Send Me Your School and Your Opinion (By Jay Mathews, March 24, 2008; 5:54 AM)
 
10 Signs of What Is Not a Crummy Poor-Kid School (Post, March 17, 2008; 2:24 PM)
 
Should We Put the Brakes on Advanced Placement Growth? (washingtonpost.com, March 10, 2008; 9:29 AM)
 
Let Them Drop Out, Then Get Them Back (By Jay Mathews, March 3, 2008; 6:26 AM)
 
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The Most Irritating Education Expert in America (Post, February 18, 2008; 7:12 AM)
 
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