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Obama's plan to reward schools for innovation sparks debate
- 04-14-2010
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By Nick Anderson/Washington Post
At Adelphi Elementary School, students peel away from their classrooms twice a week for tutorials in reading and math. Clusters of five or six children shuffle into a book closet, a hallway, a computer lab or any place teachers can fit a few chairs for 45 minutes of catch-up lessons or enrichment. Such all-out efforts helped this Prince George's County school win a national award this year for gains in test scores. But the federal anti-poverty program that funds the academic drive at Adelphi represents a model of education reform -- spreading aid to states based on population and need -- that is fast going out of fashion. President Obama aims to reinvent the Education Department as a venture capitalist for school reform, investing more in schools with innovative ideas. (more...)
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