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Failing Students, Rising Profits
Fuentes, Annette | September 19, 2005 issue

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Offers a look at Community Education Partners (CEP), an alternative school for problem students in the United States. Claim that CEP continues to prosper, even as many CEP customers are dissatisfied; Popularity of privatization in public education and the accountability-through-testing approach to teaching; Discussion of how the politics of education reform serve business interests; Lack of certified teachers at CEP; Founding of CEP by Randle Richardson and Phil Baggett; Report that the few independent evaluations of CEP have rated it poorly.

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EDUCATION -- Evaluation; ALTERNATIVE schools; COMMUNITY Education Partners LLC; ALTERNATIVE education; EDUCATION & state; EDUCATIONAL innovations; UNITED States
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