Monday, October 11, 2004

Special Education News and Links: The News-Press: Education - Basic schools all but empty

Special Education News and Links: The News-Press: Education - Basic schools all but empty

Stacy Weiss reports on yet another experiment with attempts to manage children who aren't succeeding in the no-child left behind world. The "basic schools" sound like someone's nostalgic recreation of a mythic 19th century environment.

American education is a bazillion dollar enterprise run on very little data. Knowledge-based decision making is hard enough in healthcare, but in education it seems to be almost unknown.

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