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Kindergartners asked to ‘check out’ college scholarships and ‘select jobs’ 3 QED Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1949

Alaska legislature considers suspending reimbursements for school construction 0 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 0 1619

(CA) State suspends use of test scores to measure school quality 1 Starry Messenger Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 2020

Lake County parents organizing, fighting back, opting out. Videos. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 2 1854

Lynn University To Track Student Attendance by iPad Location 4 Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 2090

Testing company claims hacker attacks caused cancellation of Florida computer tests. 2 Sancho Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1880

When Kansas tests were hacked last year they trashed them. What will Florida do? 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1686

Thousands of comments delay WV science standards vote 1 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1920

Toon: What Happened to them? 2 n2doc Mar 2015 Mar 2015 7 2100

"Bursting the dam" that protects public schools from commercial exploitation. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 8 2099

What If My Favorite Thing To Do Is..... NOTHING? 0 Smarmie Doofus Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1902

Grade colleges on how well they teach teachers? Universities balk 3 alp227 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2350

Your Waitress, Your Professor 3 n2doc Dec 2014 Mar 2015 19 3061

NY Success Academy Charter Will Send 9,000 Students To Pro-Charter Rally. Close school for day. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2485

My college survived the Great Depression and after a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees, 5 no_hypocrisy Mar 2015 Mar 2015 6 2302

I need some advice on our son. 44 RiffRandell Feb 2015 Mar 2015 0 7499

How to opt-out of FL tests..VERY carefully. How some plan to do so. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1784

Empathy, not Expulsion, for Preschoolers at Risk 1 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 2208

Pennsylvania SRC approves five charters, all with conditions, out of 39 applicants 3 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1994

Newark Students’ Protest Gets Them Meeting with Superintendent 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1631

Kansas Bill Could Send Teachers to Jail for Six Months for Teaching "Harmful" Materials 6 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 2316

Why Reading and Writing on Paper Beat Digital Screens For Boosting Your Brain 3 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1994

Change of Heart: How the 'Mother of School Choice' Came to Reject School Vouchers 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 2067

How Wall Street's Greedy Tentacles Sank Into Schools, Trapping Them in Massive Debts 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1731

Winnie, Bear Extraordinaire 0 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1816

Pre-Primary kids learned about magnets, domains, kinetic and potential energy today... 0 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1791

Powerful video 0 d_r Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 2052

The debate over the existence of public schools 4 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 2212

Third Way says NCLB testing must go on. Call us "anti-testing-and-accountability Democrats" 1 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1772

The Illusion of School Choice in New Orleans 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1779

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Bad charter situation in Baltimore. Unpaid power bills, huge IRS tax liens. 0 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 1772

Getting ready for STEMFest! 2 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 2093

Black Girls Are Suspended from School Six Times More Often Than White Girls 6 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 2344

Oklahoma Wants to Ban A.P. U.S. History, and There’s Nothing You Can Do About It 4 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 2209

Rick Scott and FL ed chief say have fewer tests. I agree. 2 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1915

One Connecticut Public School Student Was Restrained Over 700 Times in One Year 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1764

OLSAT test. What is this? 1 AllyCat Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 4672

Higher Ed: Technology, Art, Ethics and More Converge in 3-D Printing 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1686

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin: Let’s protect our children in schools 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1906

Higher Ed: 175 Years of History in 11 Minutes 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1745

The Anti-Standardized Testing Movement Claims a Victory in Chicago 0 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 1608

ESAs getting steam now. FL, AZ already turning state school money over to parents. 4 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 2098

Excellent description of how FL's 2-tier education works. 0 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 1843

More Is More | Emanuele Corso 4 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 2070

Science Just Discovered Something Amazing About What Childhood Piano Lessons Did to You 8 antigop Jan 2015 Feb 2015 11 4232

What do you think of the College Board? 5 Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 2718

Weaponizing Children | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1732

Susana’s Trojan Horse | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1666

The Skandera Loop | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1612

Chancellor Carmen Fariña Changes New York City Schools’ Course. 2 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 2125

Anchorage Assembly passes property tax exemption for charter schools 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1765

Education Secretary Says Administration Is Committed to Testing. 3 elleng Jan 2015 Feb 2015 5 2519

"This International Student Edition is for use outside the U.S." 3 mike_c Feb 2015 Feb 2015 14 2519

A Boy Praises the Principal of His Brooklyn School, and a Fund-Raising Campaign Takes Off. 1 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 2184

3 articles about Deion Sanders charter school being shut down this week. 1 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 1991

Myth Busting Scott Walker's Bogus "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" Got Fired Story 0 Panich52 Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 2433

Higher Ed: The Ins & Outs of Liberal Arts 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 2218

"When you really listen to a child read, 2 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 2362

Math and Science combine forces for 6th graders 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1778

Student writes how Jesus would give pot to the sick. Teacher put on admin leave, resigns. 14 madfloridian Dec 2014 Jan 2015 8 3973

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Black Lives Matter—at School, Too 0 Starry Messenger Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 1673

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Eugene Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1400

Kindergarten writing in their journals 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1846

Civil rights groups back high stakes testing 7 eridani Jan 2015 Jan 2015 7 2525

Peter Greene's super description of Arne's words about testing. Curmudgucation. 3 madfloridian Jan 2015 Jan 2015 11 2237

What does math look like in second grade? 4 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 2588

Kindergarteners exploring the characteristics of paper, 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1701

Fulton school chief to Georgia Legislature: Raise teacher pay. Lower time spent on testing. 4 n2doc Jan 2015 Jan 2015 8 2388

Ethan's Story. Commentary on high stakes test obsession. 3 madfloridian Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 2223

The Disturbing Transformation of Kindergarten 5 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 37 3697

anybody here teach phonological awareness? 11 ellenrr Dec 2014 Jan 2015 2 3782

Secret Agents for Change 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1726

X-post from Wisconsin: School Superintendent writes staff about legislative action in Madison 0 Scuba Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1811

xpost The most important skill in science or self-improvement is noticing the unexpected 0 n2doc Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 1767

Can't believe they gave a whole city of PA schools to these FL rich fools. 3 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 17 2346

Court gives York, PA schools to Charter Schools USA. Stripped local school board of power. 2 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 6 1983

“Most people confuse arithmetic with math...” link 'fixed.' 7 elleng Dec 2014 Dec 2014 7 2965

Alfie Kohn's righteous anger. 1 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 12 2517

Typical PR special in Pinellas... 0 Sancho Dec 2014 Dec 2014 4 1719

To Raise Science Scores, Colleges Look Beyond the Lecture. 4 elleng Dec 2014 Dec 2014 0 2309

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