From social promotion to summer school, standards and accountability to universal preschool and after-school programs -- even in the contentious struggle over school choice -- the young faces being used to sell virtually every education reform proposal these days tend to be black and brown.
The report, called "Rising to the Challenge," was prepared by the nonpartisan Education Commission of the States, which consulted with business leaders, parents and virtually every education interest group in California to achieve consensus on what it will take for the state's public school system to educate the nation's most diverse student body to much more sophisticated levels than in the past.
The creative partnership the two created, characterized by trust and respect, has been widely recognized as the foundation for Stanford's remarkable ascent during recent years in virtually every higher education milestone.
He has far more money to dole out than any previous secretary of education, and he is using it in ways that extend the federal government's reach into virtually every area of education, from pre-kindergarten to college.
The invention of the computer may be this century's printing press, a radical device in its own time that simply and irrevocably changed the course of history in virtually every field business, politics, education, religion and so on.
The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed that virtually every economic sector — except education and health — cut payrolls.
The coveted "credit" has become the standard measure for virtually every element of higher education, from schedules to degree requirements to financial aid qualifications.
Herein lies what is arguably the modern academic Faustian bargain at Harvard and virtually every other institution of higher education, not to mention some institutions of lower education and other non-profit organizations of diverse sorts.
In China, repetition is the cornerstone of education, and virtually every new skill is approached in this manner.
Indeed, Mr. Obama cites Mr. Lee's views on education in virtually every speech he gives these days, including one in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, holding up the hard-working Asian country as an example of what the United States needs to do.
Beyond matters of finance, this act affected public education at virtually every other level, from curriculum to governance; it created school councils, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, and the office of Kentucky school commissioner to replace the century-and-a-half-old office of an elected superintendent of public instruction.
