The following are edited excerpts from telephone interviews and email exchanges with leading education analysts, writers and researchers regarding the policies and positions of the presidential candidates. (edreform.com)
«Interestingly, the rhetoric around NCLB — that the law is broken, failed, and ineffective — masks the fact that nearly all of the research says otherwise,» said Anne Hyslop, a senior education analyst at Bellwether Education Partners. (b4njkids.org)
Honoré Center founders consider the program unique because it starts with an unlikely group of students, sometimes referred to by education analysts as «the bottom quartile» of scholars because they lack the requisite grades, test scores, and financial means to attend college. (hechingerreport.org)