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Texas high school that doesn't teach sex ed surprised by chlamydia outbreak 3 eridani May 2015 May 2015 5 1829

John Oliver perfectly sums up everything that’s wrong with standardized testing 5 Starry Messenger May 2015 May 2015 16 2076

Building Hope$: Big charter, big money, big prizes, big hou$e$ 2 Starry Messenger May 2015 May 2015 4 2771

Fraud, Waste, and Lies: Charter Schools Cheating Communities Out of Millions of Dollars 0 eridani May 2015 May 2015 12 1751

How to Lose $1 Billion: Yeshiva University Blows Its Future on Loser Hedge Funds 0 eridani May 2015 May 2015 0 1648

Arne has nerve to threaten fed intervention over opt outs. Blames parents for test anxiety. 4 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 9 1931

NBC: Amid Funding Cuts, Will LSU Have to Declare 'Bankruptcy'? 0 Algernon Moncrieff Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 1985

So, the college search that began two years ago ended today 12 Algernon Moncrieff Apr 2015 Apr 2015 3 3364

Schools Warned On Pushing Families Into Due Process 2 Jefferson23 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 3 1833

An Alternative To Failed Education ‘Reform’ (If We Want One) 0 eridani Apr 2015 Apr 2015 7 1598

America Is Criminalizing Black Teachers 3 eridani Apr 2015 Apr 2015 10 2116

This Article May Be Illegal: Lifting the Veil of Silence on Standardized Testing 4 eridani Apr 2015 Apr 2015 6 2024

Many U.S. schools still resist challenging all their students. 0 elleng Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 1580

Big testing opt out in NY this week. 0 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 3 1619

My rant about what I think teachers might do in 2016. 0 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 5 1817

DeBlasio said they must stop enabling Moskowitz. But Cuomo to hold huge fundraiser for her. 1 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 5 2341

Eva Moskowitz Success Academy and the restroom usage rules. Unacceptable. 1 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 3 2077

Someone Calculated How Many Adjunct Professors Are on Public Assistance, and the Number Is Startling 5 n2doc Apr 2015 Apr 2015 21 2652

HEY HARRISON AND THE REST OF NEW YORK STATE IT'S TIME TO OPT OUT!!! 0 SoBronxSchool Apr 2015 Apr 2015 5 1697

7 N.Y. Teachers of the Year blast Cuomo 1 n2doc Apr 2015 Apr 2015 7 2461

Senate Proposal Cuts Off Duncan at the Knees 7 LWolf Apr 2015 Apr 2015 9 2744

Children And Society As Fair Game | Emanuele Corso 4 Tace Apr 2015 Apr 2015 10 2055

Charter financing: Study finds too little accountability in California 0 alp227 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 1681

Game on! Teaching science with games 0 Panich52 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 1587

For some opting out of testing is easy. Those in public schools must fight battles. 0 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 3 1736

Arkansas school privatization bill fails 0 Panich52 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 4 1740

Albany charter schools. The education model that fell apart. 2 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 18 2097

The R-Word and Teaching Kids about the Power of Language 2 elleng Mar 2015 Apr 2015 2 1787

Two more FL Republican state senators speak strongly against overtesting. Kudos to them. 1 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 4 1786

Learning Through Tinkering 3 elleng Apr 2015 Apr 2015 4 1832

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Oregon's 2014 Teacher of Year fired today. Had been warned not to speak about being gay. 4 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 11 2070

My post with the video of Republican FL state senator putting down Americans for Prosperity rep. 1 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 11 1991

The Right’s Fear of Education: What I Learned As a (Former) Conservative Military Man 5 Panich52 Mar 2015 Apr 2015 16 2529

NY Dems pass Cuomo bill with "heavy hearts". One holds his nose. They hold a majority... 1 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 1 1660

If you need proof standardized testing is setting students up for failure, just ask the students. 2 eridani Mar 2015 Mar 2015 8 1889

Stunning revelation Bill Gates has spent $2.3 Billion on Common Core – #PARCC 5 eridani Mar 2015 Mar 2015 15 2453

Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts 0 question everything Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1945

Former Dean is Victorious in Legal Fight with For-Profit College After Blowing the Whistle 0 swarmster Mar 2015 Mar 2015 6 1659

Nancy Atwell. 3 LWolf Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1802

9 Billionaires Are About to Remake New York’s Public Schools—Here’s Their Story 3 Starry Messenger Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1860

Oregon's 2014 Teacher of Year placed on leave. Had been warned not to speak about being gay... 3 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1872

Kids have no idea what a VCR is. Nor VHS format. Makes me feel old. 5 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 2091

Alan Singer: Teaching History the Pearson Way 2 eridani Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1810

FL Republican House votes to cut back on testing. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1646

Miami Herald column: Florida flunked the test, failed the kids. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 2 1588

Caveon, Pearson's eye on internet...We "cast a really broad and deep net". 2 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 7 2152

PA Gov Tom Wolf spares York city schools from being handed over to FL charter school company. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 17 1867

Creationism teaching ban to be considered (in Scotland) 0 Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 2077

Bipartisan Bill to Repeal Common Core is Proposed in Washington State 4 eridani Feb 2015 Mar 2015 3 2229

Bellevue College in WA is fast becoming my favorite school! 1 liberal_at_heart Mar 2015 Mar 2015 9 1914

More about messed up Florida testing time. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1533

Study Shows NYC Charter School Suspensions Far Outpace Public School Ones 1 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1669

How conservatives capsized school reform 2 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1694

Testing company Pearson, NJ, spying on social media of students taking PARCC tests. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1703

Arizona cuts support for largest community colleges and Universities 4 n2doc Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2423

Kindergartners asked to ‘check out’ college scholarships and ‘select jobs’ 3 QED Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1766

Alaska legislature considers suspending reimbursements for school construction 0 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 0 1515

(CA) State suspends use of test scores to measure school quality 1 Starry Messenger Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1844

Lake County parents organizing, fighting back, opting out. Videos. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 2 1741

Lynn University To Track Student Attendance by iPad Location 4 Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1916

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Testing company claims hacker attacks caused cancellation of Florida computer tests. 2 Sancho Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1750

When Kansas tests were hacked last year they trashed them. What will Florida do? 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1583

Thousands of comments delay WV science standards vote 1 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1800

Toon: What Happened to them? 2 n2doc Mar 2015 Mar 2015 7 1976

"Bursting the dam" that protects public schools from commercial exploitation. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 8 1932

What If My Favorite Thing To Do Is..... NOTHING? 0 Smarmie Doofus Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1798

Grade colleges on how well they teach teachers? Universities balk 3 alp227 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2118

Your Waitress, Your Professor 3 n2doc Dec 2014 Mar 2015 19 2902

NY Success Academy Charter Will Send 9,000 Students To Pro-Charter Rally. Close school for day. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2340

My college survived the Great Depression and after a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees, 5 no_hypocrisy Mar 2015 Mar 2015 6 2122

I need some advice on our son. 44 RiffRandell Feb 2015 Mar 2015 0 6357

How to opt-out of FL tests..VERY carefully. How some plan to do so. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1681

Empathy, not Expulsion, for Preschoolers at Risk 1 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 2073

Pennsylvania SRC approves five charters, all with conditions, out of 39 applicants 3 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1824

Newark Students’ Protest Gets Them Meeting with Superintendent 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1530

Kansas Bill Could Send Teachers to Jail for Six Months for Teaching "Harmful" Materials 6 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 2099

Why Reading and Writing on Paper Beat Digital Screens For Boosting Your Brain 3 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1830

Change of Heart: How the 'Mother of School Choice' Came to Reject School Vouchers 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 1911

How Wall Street's Greedy Tentacles Sank Into Schools, Trapping Them in Massive Debts 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1619

Winnie, Bear Extraordinaire 0 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1712

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