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Think Twice Weekly Report
December 8 - December 14, 2012
The Think Twice Weekly Report is a compilation of education-related articles and reports posted each week by the think tanks monitored as part of the Think Twice think tank review project funded by the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice.

Think Tank Title Type Release Date
Center for American Progress Teachers' Perspectives on Evaluation Reform Report 12/13/2012
Center for American Progress Reforming Teacher Evaluation: One District's Story Report 12/13/2012
Cato Institute Where Will the Senate 'School-to-Prison Pipeline' Hearing Lead? Commentary 12/13/2012
EdSector In Teacher Pensions, Even the Fixes are Moving in the Wrong Direction Commentary 12/13/2012
ConnCAN Important News News Item 12/13/2012
Thomas B Fordham Institute A reverse Sputnik moment? Commentary 12/13/2012
Heartland Institute Daily Top Ten School Reform News Roundup, Dec. 10 to 14 Weekly digest 12/13/2012
Mackinac Center for Public Policy Right-to-Work: What Now for Schools? Commentary 12/13/2012
Thomas B Fordham Institute Education Gadfly Weekly Weekly Digest 12/13/2012
Thomas B. Fordham Institute Strategies for Smarter Budgets and Smarter Schools Report 12/12/2012
Brookings Institution Explaining the Education Choice and Competition Index Commentary 12/12/2012
Cato Institute Common Core Caught In Its Own Tangled Web Commentary 12/12/2012
Cato Institute Public Prefers Education Tax Credits to Charters, Vouchers Commentary 12/12/2012
Education Next Charter Schools Top Story of 2012 Commentary 12/12/2012
Thomas B Fordham Institute In ranking choice, little differences add up to big change Commentary 12/12/2012
Thomas B Fordham Institute A primer on right-to-work and collective bargaining in education Commentary 12/12/2012
Thomas B Fordham Institute Closing the reading gap with vocabulary and content Commentary 12/12/2012
Hoover Institution Hoover Institution Education Experts Identify News Media Hits and Misses in 2012 Education Coverage Commentary 12/12/2012
Illinois Policy Institute Sweden shows that school choice works Commentary 12/12/2012
American Enterprise Institute Enforcing conformity is risky Commentary 12/11/2012
Brookings Institution Improving Educational Choice and Competition Video 12/11/2012
Cato Institute U.S. Scores Up, but Why? Commentary 12/11/2012
Education Next Could Competency- Based Learning Save the Common Core? Commentary 12/11/2012
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation How Many Meetings Would You Go to for $40 million? Commentary 12/11/2012
Heritage Foundation Common Core Standards' Devastating Impact on Literary Study and Analytical Thinking Commentary 12/11/2012
Mackinac Center for Public Policy Michigan Education Digest Weekly digest 12/11/2012
StudentsFirst Principles for Smart Education Funding Discussed in Ohio Commentary 12/11/2012
George W. Bush Institute George W. Bush Institute Unveils Global Report Card 2.0 Commentary 12/10/2012
Brookings Institution The Education Choice and Competition Index Report 12/10/2012
ALEC ALEC Unveils Legislative Priorities for 2013 Press Release 12/10/2012

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