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Republican and Democratic lawmakers in multiple states have introduced legislation that would mandate holding back third-grade students who cannot pass state literacy tests.
In Iowa, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Colorado, legislatures are debating multiple versions of bills that would stop social promotion for third-graders as a last resort. Many of these bills, like Florida’s system, would increase literacy funding and requirements for K-through-third grades.
“There’s nothing more cruel to...
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Review of Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland by Pasi Sahlberg (NY: Teachers College Press, 2011).
About four decades ago, Finland introduced major reforms to grades 1-12 and teacher education, with noteworthy results. In 1970, less than 10 percent of its students graduated from high school. By 2010, most high school-age students attended high school and most graduated. What did Finland do to achieve such a dramatic increase, and to be among the...
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The Georgia Senate’s Education Committee approved two bills that would broaden Georgia’s Special Needs Scholarship to more special-needs students, military families, and foster children.
Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers’s proposal, Senate bill 87, would open the program to children who have a parent serving in the military and children in foster families.
Rep. Rick Golick (R-Smyrna)’s House Bill 181 would tweak the program requirement that says students must attend a Georgia public school the...
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