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Donkey in disguise: Jack Jennings and the Center on Education Policy.

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Checked (all titles published by the Center on Education Policy):

From the Capital to the Classroom, Year 1 (January 2003), Year 2 (January 2004), Year 3 (March 2005)

State High School Exit Exams series: A Baseline Report (August 2002), Put to the Test (August 2003), A Maturing Reform (August 2004)

States Try Harder, but Gaps Persist: State High School Exit Exams 2005 (August 2005)

Pay Now or Pay Later: The Hidden Costs of High School Exit Exams (May 2004)

School Vouchers: What We Know and Don't Know ... and How We Could Learn More (June 2000)

Do We Still Need Public Schools? (1996)

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