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-SourcesAssociated Press; "Gates Voices Concerns about U.S. Education"; The New York Times, March 8, 2007
Field, Kelly; "Education Department Backs Away From Plan to Request Large Amount of New Data from Colleges;" The Chronicle of Higher Education; March 8th, 2007
Increasingly, performance markers are being sought and implemented in public education; these top news stories testify to that. ()
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As performance-based education is still the exception rather than the rule, it is not surprising that a request for this type of "proprietary" information was received so critically.
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