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...Good tests - ones that probe true learning and not last-minute cramming - are expensive. Michigan, Maryland and a few other states are using such well-regarded tests now, but these can cost upwards of $25 a pupil. Full implementation of the Bush plan, with high-quality tests in all 50 states, could cost up to $7 billion. The current legislation earmarks $370 million for this purpose...
...Good tests - ones that probe true learning and not last-minute cramming - are expensive. Michigan, Maryland and a few other states are using such well-regarded tests now, but these can cost upwards of $25 a pupil. Full implementation of the Bush plan, with high-quality tests in all 50 states, could cost up to $7 billion. The current legislation earmarks $370 million for this purpose next year...
GILBERT WHITAKER Business Educator When Whitaker was named dean of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in 1997, the student body had one minority pupil in a class of 225. Whitaker, now 70, made it a top priority to increase black and Hispanic enrollment, a task he had previously undertaken as dean of the B school at the University of Michigan. One reason for his quest was purely pragmatic. Having more minority students attracts more corporate recruiters, Whitaker says, and this draws more, better-qualified applicants to the school. Today blacks and Hispanics account...
...route recommended by school officials or kept their daughters out of school entirely. But the number of children walking to school between rows of armor-clad police increased as the week went on. "They'll attack us whatever way we go," said the mother of a seven-year-old pupil. "If we don't go down this way, they'll get us the other...
This cooperation is largely motivated by self-interest--many schools can regain at least a percentage of their per-pupil funding by counting home schoolers, who get more options without being fully part of the system. "These programs can win parents back when they see the school is willing to offer alternative forms of education," says Patricia Lines, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute in Seattle and one of the foremost experts on home schooling. "There's something very efficient about [traditional] schooling, and home schooling isn't exactly efficient." That's one reason TIME found so many home...