Evidence Based Education

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) bristles with references to evidence-based or research-based education solutions. By one count the 1,000 plus page bill contains more than 130 references to it.
http://www.thedoylereport.com/cyber_chair?object=archive[]&content_id=3434

Running Schools Like Businesses

Linda Starr at Education World wrote a very excellent article on how the textbook adoption committees in the big three states, Texas, California, and Florida, largely control what information gets included in textbooks.
http://www.education-world.com/a_issues/issues229.shtml.

Can the Bush School Plan Work?

Michael Casserly shares research about three strategies school districts implemented that improved students' reading and mathematics performance.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/ew_printstory.cfm?slug=14casserly.h22