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achievement gap in, 6.1, 20.1
charter schools and, 16.1, 17.1
in good education, 24.1, 24.2
Illinois state standards for, 20.1, 20.2
international tests of, 7.1, 22.1, 28.1
NAEP and, 5.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 15.1, 19.1, app.8, app.20
online schools and, 17.1, 17.2
teacher evaluations and
teachers of, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
TFA and
Mathews, Jay, 15.1, 15.2
Maumee Valley Country Day School
mayors, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 15.1, 15.2, 29.1, 32.1
democratic control and, 30.1, 30.2
parent trigger and
McCain, John
McDonnell, Robert F.
McKay Scholarships
McKinley Elementary
media, 2.1, 4.1, 31.1, 31.2, 32.1, 33.1
corporate reform and, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 20.1
education crisis and, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 11.1
international tests and, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Rhee and, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
Teach for America and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5
see also specific kinds of media and publications
merit pay, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 20.1, 25.1, 28.1, 30.1, 31.1
failure of
long-lasting plans for
two types of
Vanderbilt study of
Merrow, John, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
MetLife Survey of the American Teacher
Miami Central High School
Miami New Times
Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, 3.1, 16.1
Michigan, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, 15.1, 25.1, 31.1, 31.2
charter schools in, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
middle class, 10.1, 27.1, 28.1, 31.1, 33.1
jobs for, 9.1, 9.2
middle schools, 1.1, 16.1, 25.1, 25.2, nts.1n
Milken, Lowell
Milken, Michael, 17.1, 17.2
Miller, Matt
Milwaukee, Wis., 15.1, 19.1, nts.1n
Mind Trust
Miner, Barbara
minimum competency testing
Minneapolis, Minn., 16.1, 31.1
Minnesota, 2.1, 7.1, 16.1, 31.1
Minnesota, University of, Institute on Race and Poverty of
Miron, Gary
Mishel, Lawrence, 8.1, nts.1n
Missouri, charter schools in
Mitchell, Ted
Moe, Michael
Moe, Terry, 17.1, 19.1
Moskowitz, Eva
MPCP (Milwaukee Parental Choice Program)
Murdoch, Rupert, 3.1, 3.2, 11.1, 17.1, 24.1, 32.1
Murnane, Richard J.
music education, 1.1, 24.1
My School, My Choice
NAEP, see National Assessment of Educational Progress
Nation
National Academy of Education (NAE)
National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 7.1
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 7.1, 13.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, 30.1, 31.1, app.4, app.16
achievement gap and, 6.1, 6.2
long-term trend, 5.3, 5.2, 5.3
vouchers and
in Washington, D.C.
National Center on Performance Incentives
National Commission on Excellence in Education, 2.1, 4.1
National Digital Learning Day
National Education Association, 3.1, 30.1, nts.1n–6n
National Education Policy Center, 17.1, 17.2
National Governors Association and Archive
National Heritage Academies (NHA), 16.1, 16.2
National Labor Relations Board
National Research Council
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child
national security, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1
National Urban League
National Youth Administration, 4.1, 30.1
Nation at Risk, A (1983 report), 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 7.1
NBC, 4.1, 18.1, 33.1
NC Alliance for Public Charter Schools
NCLB, see No Child Left Behind
Nebraska, 30.1, 31.1
Netherlands, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
Nevada, 8.1, 16.1, 32.1
Newark, N.J., 3.1, 10.1
New Deal
New Jersey, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, 11.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1, 32.1
charter schools in
New Markets Tax Credit
New Media Technology Charter School
New Orleans, La., 14.1, 32.1
charters in, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2
New Schools Venture Fund, 2.1, 18.1
News Corporation, 3.1, 3.2, 17.1, 17.2
Newsweek, 4.1, 11.1, 14.1
New Teacher Project
Newtown, Conn.
New York, N.Y., 15.1, 17.1, 25.1, 30.1, 30.2, 32.1
after-school programs in
charter schools in, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 26.1, 30.1, 32.1
merit pay in
segregation and
seniority in
teacher evaluation in, 11.1, 11.2
New York (state), 2.1, 11.1, 31.1, 31.2, 32.1, 32.2
New York Charter Schools Association
New York City Education Department, 11.1, 12.1
New Yorker
New York Performance Standards Consortium
New York Post
New York Times, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 14.1, 14.2, 32.1, 32.2
charter schools and, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
online schools and, 17.1, 17.2
New Zealand, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 10.1
Next Generation Charter Schools Act
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Nixon, Richard M.
Noah Webster Academy
No Child Left Behind (NCLB), 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3, 21.1, 23.1, 24.1, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, 33.1, 33.2
achievement gap and, 6.1, 6.2
charter schools and, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
entrepreneurial response to
federal role changed by, 30.1, 30.2
narrowing of curriculum and, 24.1, 24.2
parent trigger and
Race to the Top compared with, 2.1, 3.1, 11.1, 12.1
segregation and, 31.1, 31.2
noncognitive skills, 23.1, 23.2, 25.1, 28.1
non-English-speaking students, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 14.1, 18.1, 20.1, 25.1, 32.1, 32.2, 33.1, 33.2
charter schools and, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 26.1
teacher evaluation and, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3
North Carolina, 7.1, 7.2, 16.1
Norway, 7.1, 9.1, 10.1, 23.1
Nurse-Family Partnership, 23.1, 27.1
nurses, 1.1, 27.1, 27.2
nutrition, 4.1, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1
Oakland, Calif., 16.1, 20.1
Obama, Barack (Obama administration), 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 11.1, 20.1, 30.1, 31.1, 33.1
charter schools and
college education and, 9.1, 9.2
failure of “reforms” of
Rhee and
on “Sputnik moment,”
State of the Union addresses of, 3.1, 11.1
on teachers vs. families, 11.1, 11.2
turnarounds and, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
see also Race to the Top
Occupy Wall Street
OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), 7.1, 8.1, 9.1
Office of Education, U.S.
Office of School Improvement, 20.1, 20.2
Ohio, 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 24.1
charter schools in, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
online schools in, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
vouchers in, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA)
Ohio Education Department
Ohio Virtual Academy, 17.1, 17.2
Olson, Linda Steffel
online schools, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 17.1,
32.1, nts.1n
charter, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 26.1, 26.2
costs of, 17.1, 17.2
for-profit, 14.1, 17.1, 17.2
investigations of, 17.1, 17.2
lack of social interaction in
value of
vouchers and
online universities
Open Communities
Oregon, 17.1, 25.1, 32.1
Oregon Justice Department
Packard, Ron, 17.1, 17.2
Parent Empowerment Act
Parent Revolution, 3.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, nts.1n
parents, 2.1, 3.1, 11.1, 13.1, 14.1, 20.1, 20.2, 21.1, 29.1, 33.1, 33.2
charters and, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 26.1, 26.2, 31.1, 32.1
Chinese
class size and, 25.1, 25.2
democratic control and, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3
educated, 10.1, 10.2, 23.1, 23.2, 24.1, 27.1, 31.1
homeschooling and
online schools and, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
poor and low-income, 4.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 31.1
Rhee and
school choice and, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 33.1
single, 10.1, 23.1
suburban
test scores and, 1.1, 4.1, 11.1
vouchers and, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Parents Across America (PAA), 18.1, 18.2
“parent trigger” idea, 3.1, 3.2, 18.1, 20.1
PBS, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
PBS NewsHour (TV show)
Peace Corps, 14.1, 14.2
Pearson, 3.1, 16.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
Peer Assistance and Review (PAR)
peer effects, 11.1, 31.1
peer review
Pennsylvania, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4
K12 lobbying in
online schools in
Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School
Pennsylvania Education Department
performance assessment
Perry Elementary School
Perry Preschool Project
personalized instruction, 16.1, 17.1
Philadelphia, Pa., 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3
physical education, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 11.1, 12.1, 16.1, 28.1
in good education, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
piece-rate compensation system, 12.1, 12.2
PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study)
PISA (Program for International Student Assessment)
political campaigns and contributions, 3.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 32.1, 33.1, nts.1n
poverty, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 7.1, 7.2, 11.1, 13.1, 21.1, 31.1, 32.1
achievement gap and, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 10.1, 14.1, 14.2, 16.1, 23.1, 31.1
Catholic schools and
charter schools and, 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, 16.4, 17.1, 26.1
class size and, 25.1, 25.2, 27.1, 30.1
dropping out and
early childhood education and
federal school aid and, 30.1, 30.2
fixing schools vs. fixing, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1, 27.1
free or low-priced lunch and, 7.1, 20.1
international tests and
online schools and, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
parent trigger and
“priority” schools and
TFA and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5
turnaround and, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
value-added assessments and
vouchers and
in Washington, D.C., 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
wraparound services and
pregnancy, 1.1, 10.1, 10.2, 23.1, 27.1, 27.2
prekindergarten, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 10.1, 28.1
premature births, 10.1, 22.1, 27.1
preschool education, see early childhood education
Princeton University
principals, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 11.1, 15.1, 21.1, 28.1, 29.1, 30.1
at charter schools, 16.1, 16.2, 26.1
demoralization of, 20.1, 20.2
firing of, 2.1, 3.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 20.1, 20.2
LSC and
merit pay and, 12.1, 12.2
parent trigger and
Rhee and, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
selection of, 29.1, 30.1
standards for, itr.1, 1.1, 29.1, 29.2
teacher evaluations and
tenure and
TFA and
turnover of, 15.1, 15.2
“priority” schools, 30.1, 30.2, 33.1
private schools, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 10.1, 12.1, 17.1, 24.1, 28.1, 32.1, 32.2, 33.1, 33.2
class size in, 24.1, 25.1
voucher-supported, 16.1, 19.1
privatization, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 17.1, 18.1, 31.1, 31.2, 32.1, 33.1
parent trigger and, 18.1, 18.2
as reactionary
Rhee and
risks and dangers of, itr.1, 1.1
TFA and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4
“proficient” level, 5.1, 5.2
profiteering, profits, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 17.1, 17.2, 19.1, 33.1
charter schools and, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 16.1, 26.1, 26.2
progressives, progressivism, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1
Promise Academies
psychometrics, cardinal rule of
public schools
charters in
civic purpose of
closing of, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 16.1, 17.1, 20.1, 30.1, 30.2, 32.1, 33.1, 33.2
as common schools
decentralization of, 30.1, nts.1n
in Finland
hostility toward, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
protection of democratic control of, 30.1, 33.1
stability provided by
vouchers vs., 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
public sector, hostility toward, 3.1, 3.2
race, 25.1, 26.1, 27.1, 31.1, 33.1, 33.2
high school completion and noncompletion by, app.21
tests scores by, 2.1, app.3, app.6, app.22
see also segregation; specific racial groups
Race to the Top, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1, 20.1, 24.1, 28.1, 28.2, 33.1, 33.2
federal role changed by, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3
No Child Left Behind compared with, 2.1, 3.1, 11.1, 12.1
segregation and, 31.1, 31.2
racial isolation, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 7.1, 31.1, 31.2
Rand Corporation
Rattner, Steven
reading, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 11.1, 15.1, 17.1, 24.1, 24.2, 29.1, 30.1, 31.1, 31.2
achievement gap in, 6.1, 6.2, 20.1, 21.1
cheating scandals and
to children, 10.1, 11.1
Illinois state standards for, 20.1, 20.2
international tests of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 28.1
NAEP and, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 6.2, 15.1, 19.1, app.4, app.23, app.16
online schools and, 17.1, 17.2
teacher evaluations and
teacher turnover and
TFA and
Reagan, Ronald, 2.1, 3.1, 30.1
real estate investment trusts
Reardon, Sean
recession of 2008, 9.1, 24.1, 24.2, 25.1
religious schools, 3.1, 3.2, 10.1, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 33.1, 33.2
remedial classes
Renaissance 2010, 20.1, 20.2
Rendell, Ed
report cards
Republicans, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 11.1, 14.1, 16.1, 32.1, 33.1, 33.2
charter schools and, 16.1, 18.1
education agenda of, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1
online schools and, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
parent trigger and, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Rhee and, 15.1, 15.2
vouchers and, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4
Reuters, 16.1, 18.1
Revenaugh, Mickey
“reward” schools, 30.1, 30.2
Rhee, Michelle, 4.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 14.1, 15.1, 33.1
background of, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1
candor and toughness of, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
cheat
ing scandal
parent trigger and, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
StudentsFirst and, 5.1, 11.1, 13.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 32.1, 32.2
tenure and seniority opposed by, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2
TFA and, 14.1, 14.2, 15.1
in Washington, D.C., 14.1, 15.1
Rice, Condoleezza
Ritz, Glenda
Rocketship charters, 16.1, 32.1
Rockoff, John E.
Romero, Gloria, 18.1, 18.2
Romney, George
Romney, Mitt
Rotherham, Andrew
Rothstein, Richard, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 27.1, 27.2, 31.1
Roy, Joydeep, 8.1, nts.1n
Rubinstein, Gary
Rumberger, Russell W.
Russia, 7.1, 16.1
Russian Federation, 8.1, 9.1
Ryan, Wayne
Sahlberg, Pasi
St. Paul, Minn.
Sanders, William
Sandy Hook Elementary School
San Francisco, Calif.
SAT, 28.1, 31.1
scale scores, 5.1, 5.2, 5.1
Schmidt, Harvey
Scholastic-Gates survey, 20.1, 25.1
school boards, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 11.1, 16.1, 18.1, 32.1, 33.1
democratic control and, 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 30.4
School Improvement Grants, 2.1, 33.1
schools, itr.1, 2.1
at risk
fixing poverty vs. fixing, 10.1, 10.2, 14.1, 27.1
history of criticism of, 4.1, 7.1
as punching bags
society’s entwinement with, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2
schools in need of improvement (SINI)
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 16.1, 18.1, nts.1n
science, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 19.1, 20.1, 30.1, 32.1
charter schools and
in good education, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
international tests of, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 22.1, 28.1
teachers of, 13.1, 14.1, 20.1
Scott, Rick, 11.1, 16.1
secondary education, itr.1, 14.1
see also high schools; middle schools
segregation, 25.1, 32.1
Brown decision and, 3.1, 6.1, 19.1, 19.2, 31.1, 33.1
charter schools and, 16.1, 19.1, 31.1
racial, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 14.1, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 21.1, 30.1, 31.1, 32.1, 33.1, 33.2, 33.3
seniority and tenure, 3.1, 3.2, 12.1, 13.1, 14.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
“separate but equal” doctrine, 19.1, 31.1
Shanker, Albert, 2.1, 12.1, 16.1, 16.2, 26.1, 26.2
Sherman School of Excellence
Sidwell Friends
Simpson’s paradox, 5.1, 5.2, nts.1n
Singapore, 7.1, 7.2
SLANT technique
Slovenia, 7.1, 8.1, 10.1
small-school initiative
Snyder, Rick, 3.1, 3.2
social capital
social class, 16.1, 26.1, 32.1, 33.1, 33.2, 33.3
see also middle class; poverty