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How can your tax dollars be applied more effectively in our schools? Here are some answers!

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Answers to the question of what the United States could do to improve the educational performance of our students are to be found in the current issue of OECD Observer, the magazine of  The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Several articles in the current issue focus on education from an international perspective. The first […]

The Need for Collaboration

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Schools and school systems are arguably amongst the most complex social institutions we have, and this is why they are so hard to change. They involve the hopes, school histories, attitudes toward childhood, psychology, and learning assets and challenges of an enormous array of stakeholders. These stakeholders include the students themselves, their families, everyone who […]