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Preliminary findings suggest that in three states where voters decided to replace bilingual education with structured English immersion may be producing less-than-stellar results. <span style="color:#999999">(<i>Education Week</i>)</span>
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A new first-of-its-kind analysis suggests that in Chicago, at least, charter school students are more likely to graduate from high school and enroll in college than similar students in regular public high schools. <span style="color:#999999">(<i>Education Week</i>)</span>
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A new book by Harvard business professor Clayton M. Christensen predicts that the rapid growth in computer-based delivery of education could have potentially dramatic consequences for established public schools. <span style="color:#999999">(<i>Education Week</i>)</span>
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A growing body of research is revealing the potential benefits of using board games in the classroom to strengthen the mathematics skills of children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds. <span style="color:#999999">(<i>Education Week</i>)</span>
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The California Dropout Research Project was created in part to help determine how many students quit school before they graduate. <span style="color:#999999">(<i>Education Week</i>)</span>
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The Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education specializes in calculating and comparing the long- and short-term costs—and probable payoffs—of different educational strategies that promise to improve students' lives. <span style="color:#999999">(<i>Education Week</i>)</span>
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<div style="font-size:12px; font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:2px;"><span class="plus-sign">+</span> <a href="http://lnk.edweek.org/edweek/index.html?url=/ew/articles/2008/05/07/36fuhrman.h27.html&tkn=wVcmQQAle%2B3GaiI6qq%2F2Jfvjt00Ul%2Brw" target="_blank"><b>If We’re Talking About Race, Let’s Talk About Education</b></a></div>
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If we’re serious about overcoming entrenched racial attitudes and barriers, let’s recognize how important education is to that conversation, writes Susan Fuhrman. <span style="color:#999999">(<i>Education Week</i>)</span>
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<br>Single-sex schooling, where students attend classes or schools segregated by gender, has traditionally been the province of private and parochial schools. Yet over the past few years the arrangement has been gaining popularity in some public school districts. Nationwide, roughly 50 public schools are completely single-sex and over 350 offer some single-sex classes. </br>
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<span style="font-size:12px;"><b><a href="http://enews.edweek.org/GoNow/a15864a179245a444091909a27">Few States Test Students on Technology Skills</a></b></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, also known as STEM subjects, are vital to education in the new millennium. A survey conducted by the EPE Research Center, as reported in <a href="http://enews.edweek.org/GoNow/a15864a179245a444091909a34"><em>Technology Counts 2008</em></a>, found that only five states during the 2007-2008 school year – Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Utah – test students on technology skills. </span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">For more state-by-state data, explore our <a href="http://enews.edweek.org/GoNow/a15864a179245a444091909a35">Education Counts</a> database.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size:12px;">The EPE Research Center, with the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, is sponsoring the seventh annual conference on the challenges of dropout rates in our nation's public schools. The event, The Dropout Crisis in the Northwest: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis in All Communities, is on Friday, May 30, 2008, from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at the Ethnic Cultural Theatre on the University of Washington campus. In addition to its focus on the Northwest, the conference also examines issues confronting American Indian and Alaska Native students. Agenda and registration information can be found online <a href="http://enews.edweek.org/GoNow/a15864a179245a444091909a29">here</a>.</span></td></tr>
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