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This week's article is about a topic that interests me greatly: education. I hope that it will stimulate some debate in the Forum. Here it is:

Fixing Education
Is linking the dollar value of teachers' paychecks to the scores of their students on standardized tests just the latest patch on the broken system we call American public education? Or will the business mentality of Arne Duncan bring success to our schools?

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art52265.asp

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