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From School Improvement Industry Week.

Guest Perspective
• C. Blohm & Associates Offers a “How To� on Show Floor Meetings

Must Download Data
• NCES Provides a Fact Base for Assessing the Addressable Market in School Violence Prevention

Rules of the Game
• President Bush and Senator Kennedy on White House Meeting with Civil Rights Leaders to Discuss NCLB Reauthorization

A Little Knowledge
• NWREL reports on How the Pacific Northwest States Support Schools in Need of Improvement

K-12 Program Review
• WestEd Reaches for Nice Reviews of Five High Schools Sponsored by the Gates Foundation

Letter From the Editor
• For School Improvement Industry Marketing Representatives Who Want Free Media....

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From this week's New Education Economy®.
One page excepted summaries of market-shaping documents.

Guest Perspective
� Returns Soon

Must Download Data
� If You Serve Title I Schools, You Should Know More About Student Nutrition

Rules of the Game
� Forum on Education Accountability Proposes Principles for NCLB�s Accountability Provisions

A Little Knowledge
� The Case for National Standards in One Figure

K-12 Program Review
� Scholastic�s Fluency Formula� Falls Short

�An Act: To close the achievement gap�
� Returns Soon

Letter from the Editor
� Political Power: The Forgotten Element of Adoption in Education Technology

Editorial - Our Industry�s Interests in NCLB II: (VI) Peer Review Procedures Matter to an Emerging Industry.

From This Week's New Education Economy®
Essential reading for industry professionals.
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Guest Perspective
• Bill Bavin: Using the Education Industry Market Matrix to Explain the Evolving School Improvement Industry
• Political Symbolism 101: Secretary Spellings Speaks to Charter School Operators at Their Annual Conference

Must Download Data
• Returns Next Week.

Rules of the Game
• Secretary Spellings' Letter to Chief State School Officers on NCLB II: Sticking With "No Retreat, No Surrender"

A Little Knowledge
• Voyager Identifies a "Best Practice" in Program Marketing - Doing and Explaining Program Evaluation

K-12 Program Review
• Read, Write and Type™ Shows How to Barely Pass a What Works Clearinghouse Review

"An Act: To close the achievement gap"
• SEC. 1111(e) & 1203(c): Peer Review Procedures for Title I Part A Basic Programs and Reading First

Letter from the Editor
• Our Industry's Interests in NCLB II: (VI) Peer Review Procedures Matter to an Emerging Industry.

Editorial: School Improvement Investors: Now is the Time to Lobby Washington - And Hard

From the April 24 issue of New Education Economy®.
Essential reading for the industry executive.
Excerpted summaries hotlined to the source

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Guest Perspective
� House Education Committee Chairman George Millers� Opening Statement at the April 20 Reading First Hearing  (hearing)

Must Download Data
� NGA Report on the Governors� Education Priorities

Rules of the Game
� Secretaries Paige and Spellings Failed to Report the Use of Their Waiver Authority Under NCLB Section 9401
 
A Little Knowledge
� GAO Reviews SES Providers� Relationships With School Districts

K-12 Program Review
� What it Takes to Receive What Works Clearinghouse �Approval� in the Area Addressed by Reading First: DaisyQuest

�An Act: To close the achievement gap�
� Kentucky DOE official Starr Lewis Testifies on U.S. Ed Department�s Abuse of Discretion in Reading First Implementation

Letter From the Editor
� To Investors in Research-Based Firms: Help Yourselves by Organizing as One and Getting Up to Capital Hill Pronto

Editorial: Political Risk, Investment and Political Action (from April 5, 2004

Editorial: School Improvement Industry Providers' Q1 Earnings Reports Outline Industry-Wide Risks; Perspective: CoSN's Bev White - A District Needs a Cabinet-Level CTO, and a CTO Needs More Than Tech Savvy; School Improvement Markets Report "RFP of The Week":  Professional Scientific Survey for Cobb County - The "Wired" RFP?

Editorial: Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object (III): Change the Cost Structure By Shifting Risk; Highlights; Perspective: Mission Smarts - The Mission Paradox - Stay Focused, Within Context

Editorial: Our Market's Political Economy (II); This Week's Highlights; Guest Column: KEH Communications' Elliot on Relating to the Local Education Reporter

Editorial: Our Markets Political Economy; This Week's Highlights; CoSN's Kaestner on How to Value EdTech Investments

Editorial: SBR as an Example for Reducing Political Risk, Guest Coumnist Phadke on Simplifying Education for Tutors

Editorial: Three Years Left for Institutional Reform to Industry Regulation, SIIW Highlights, Guest Column: Cascarino on Nonprofit Growth with Quality

Editorial: Poitical Risk Continued; Guest Column: NEKIA's CEO Jim Kohlmoos on a Tipping Point for Knowledge-Driven Reform

Editorial: From Firm Risk to Political Risk, Weekly Highlights, Guest Column: eSchoolmall's CEO Andy Flanagan on Technology and the Sales Cycle