Many charter school supporters believe their hour has come. Locally, charters play an increasingly integral part in the school reform agenda of the Los Angeles Unified School District. At the state level, California charters recently received a boost from legislation that permits them access to new bond funding for school construction. And nationally, the U.S. Department uggs.comof Education's Race to the Top program includes high-quality charter schools among its priorities. But an improved outlook for charter schools is not a guaranteed cure-all for bad schools. A number of studies over the last year have shown that charter schools in California and elsewhere have had mixed results. In 2009, Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, which I direct, released the results of a study examining charter school effectiveness in 15 states and the District of Columbia. We found that, on average, students attending charters did not learn as much as their traditional public school peers. Charter schools, we found, were twice as likely to perform less well than public schools with similar demographics as they were to outperform those public schools. There was considerable variation across states, though. Students in Massachusetts and Louisiana charter schools had stronger academic gains than their public school peers, while in Arizona and Ohio, charter...

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JACKSON, Miss. — That sure looks like Tiger Woods. The face. The rounded shoulders. The eyes staring out from under a cap. Celebrity website radaronline.com says the next issue of the National Enquirer will feature photos of the world's No. 1 golfer at Pineuggs outlet Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services in Hattiesburg, Miss. The site posted eight photos that purport to show Woods - wearing white shorts and a dark hooded sweatshirt - at the Pine Grove facility where the Gentle Path sexual addiction program is conducted. Calls to the National Enquirer were not immediately returned Wednesday afternoon. Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, declined to comment on the photo or whether Woods was at the clinic. If the photos are authentic, they would be the first of Woods since he appeared at halftime of the Stanford-Cal football game Nov. 21 when he was inducted into Stanford's sports Hall of Fame. Six days later, Woods crashed his SUV into a tree outside his home in Florida, setting off a stunning downfall over allegations of rampant extramarital affairs. Woods eventually confessed to infidelity, and he said he would take an indefinite break from golf while he tries to save his marriage. He hasn't been seen in...