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Modern Parenthood Glenn Beck MSNBC promo: The pundit blows hot air through the village
Glenn Beck tore into MSNBC's promo featuring Melissa Harris-Perry saying how she felt the US public should pay more attention to public education. But even while US students lag behind their overseas peers, Mr. Beck took Ms. Harris-Perry's criticism of Americans as sacrilege.
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Do private school vouchers help? New study offers data.
African-American students who used private school vouchers were 24 percent more likely to go on to college than blacks in a control group, the study says. But debate over vouchers has followed.
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Can the US compete if only 32 percent of its students are proficient in math?
Among the top-scoring places in the world that participated in a recent exam, math proficiency of 15-year-olds was well above 50 percent. One US state, Massachusetts, cleared that mark, barely.
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Bush education law: shift ahead?
No Child Left Behind Act could be overhauled by a new president and Congress next year.
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