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In yet another stark reminder of the social and human costs of high dropout rates and the yawning achievement gap in the United States, researchers at the American Cancer Society and Emory University recently showed that death rates for lung, ...Read More

In a compelling article in The New Atlantis, Christine Rosen discusses what she calls the "myth of multitasking" -- namely, the notion that emerged beginning in the early 1990's that multitasking is an essential twenty-first century "life skill"....Read More

Another cornerstone of the Bush administration's education policy comes under fire.  According to an article in the Washington Post: "Students in the D.C. school voucher program, the first federal initiative to spend taxpayer dollars on private scho...Read More

Plum: Welcome to Plum

In a huge blow to one of the Bush administration’s signature education programs, a US Department of Education study concludes that the $1 billion dollar a year program designed to increase reading proficiency among low-income children does not im...Read More