This week, Mike and Rick discuss whether national standards are “conservative,” if Obama has expended his political capital on education policy, and what civil rights “accountability” in private schools could possibly look like. Then Amber considers whether paying students raises NAEP scores, and Janie tells Hawaii: letting kids take the state test more than once might not be such a bad idea.
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