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Black Girls Are Suspended from School Six Times More Often Than White Girls 6 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 2012

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 1982

Rick Scott and FL ed chief say have fewer tests. I agree. 2 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1738

One Connecticut Public School Student Was Restrained Over 700 Times in One Year 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1623

OLSAT test. What is this? 1 AllyCat Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 4459

Higher Ed: Technology, Art, Ethics and More Converge in 3-D Printing 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1556

U.S. Senator Joe Manchin: Let’s protect our children in schools 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1761

Higher Ed: 175 Years of History in 11 Minutes 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1620

The Anti-Standardized Testing Movement Claims a Victory in Chicago 0 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 1479

ESAs getting steam now. FL, AZ already turning state school money over to parents. 4 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1881

Excellent description of how FL's 2-tier education works. 0 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 1696

More Is More | Emanuele Corso 4 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 1853

Science Just Discovered Something Amazing About What Childhood Piano Lessons Did to You 8 antigop Jan 2015 Feb 2015 11 3800

What do you think of the College Board? 5 Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 2411

Weaponizing Children | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1610

Susana’s Trojan Horse | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1551

The Skandera Loop | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1488

Chancellor Carmen Fariña Changes New York City Schools’ Course. 2 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 1947

Anchorage Assembly passes property tax exemption for charter schools 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1634

Education Secretary Says Administration Is Committed to Testing. 3 elleng Jan 2015 Feb 2015 5 2310

"This International Student Edition is for use outside the U.S." 3 mike_c Feb 2015 Feb 2015 14 2274

A Boy Praises the Principal of His Brooklyn School, and a Fund-Raising Campaign Takes Off. 1 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 2023

3 articles about Deion Sanders charter school being shut down this week. 1 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 1832

Myth Busting Scott Walker's Bogus "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" Got Fired Story 0 Panich52 Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 2288

Higher Ed: The Ins & Outs of Liberal Arts 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 2097

"When you really listen to a child read, 2 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 2069

Math and Science combine forces for 6th graders 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1656

Student writes how Jesus would give pot to the sick. Teacher put on admin leave, resigns. 14 madfloridian Dec 2014 Jan 2015 8 3505

Black Lives Matter—at School, Too 0 Starry Messenger Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 1548

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Eugene Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1295

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Kindergarten writing in their journals 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1726

Civil rights groups back high stakes testing 7 eridani Jan 2015 Jan 2015 7 2259

Peter Greene's super description of Arne's words about testing. Curmudgucation. 3 madfloridian Jan 2015 Jan 2015 11 2046

What does math look like in second grade? 4 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 2387

Kindergarteners exploring the characteristics of paper, 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1580

Fulton school chief to Georgia Legislature: Raise teacher pay. Lower time spent on testing. 4 n2doc Jan 2015 Jan 2015 8 2181

Ethan's Story. Commentary on high stakes test obsession. 3 madfloridian Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 2038

The Disturbing Transformation of Kindergarten 5 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 37 3469

anybody here teach phonological awareness? 11 ellenrr Dec 2014 Jan 2015 2 3457

Secret Agents for Change 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1589

X-post from Wisconsin: School Superintendent writes staff about legislative action in Madison 0 Scuba Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1696

xpost The most important skill in science or self-improvement is noticing the unexpected 0 n2doc Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 1644

Can't believe they gave a whole city of PA schools to these FL rich fools. 3 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 17 2177

Court gives York, PA schools to Charter Schools USA. Stripped local school board of power. 2 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 6 1841

“Most people confuse arithmetic with math...” link 'fixed.' 7 elleng Dec 2014 Dec 2014 7 2682

Alfie Kohn's righteous anger. 1 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 12 2334

Typical PR special in Pinellas... 0 Sancho Dec 2014 Dec 2014 4 1601

To Raise Science Scores, Colleges Look Beyond the Lecture. 4 elleng Dec 2014 Dec 2014 0 2070

Banksy twitter cartoon on Modern Education. 1 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 14 5674

Florida makes sure that there are not too many A schools by adjusting standards yearly. 1 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 8 1909

White House releases snapshot of plan to rate U.S. colleges 1 Eugene Dec 2014 Dec 2014 0 1655

New York City’s best public schools are harder to get into than the Ivy Leagues 0 n2doc Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 1598

12 Amazing Things Scientists Discovered This Year About People Who Listen to Music 8 antigop Dec 2014 Dec 2014 44 5872

Video: Jeopardy Names a Category "Non-Common Core Math." 2 Smarmie Doofus Dec 2014 Dec 2014 3 2078

Music and Math -- the genius of Beethoven (video) 0 antigop Dec 2014 Dec 2014 5 1709

New video series on Antiacademics. 0 lenrely Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 1940

The Myth of Chinese Super Schools 3 ellenrr Dec 2014 Dec 2014 8 2257

22 yr old charter school owner outed by principal of his high school. More discrepancies as well. 3 madfloridian Nov 2014 Dec 2014 11 2471

I'm hearing the same thing over and over: Statewide anti-bullying programs are a joke. 7 RandySF Dec 2014 Dec 2014 0 2566

Osceola Co. teachers resign en masse over Common Core demands 0 Sancho Dec 2014 Dec 2014 16 1955

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The Model Town Project 1 elleng Dec 2014 Dec 2014 3 1739

A Chicago Teacher Explains How Her School Fought Back Against Standardized Testing—And Won 1 eridani Dec 2014 Dec 2014 8 1778

at my daughters' first school: EDITED 1 elleng Dec 2014 Dec 2014 3 1945

The ACLU: Complaint Says Charter Schools Are Resegregating Public Education 21 QED Dec 2014 Dec 2014 32 7055

Of Cosby, Students First, Campbell Brown and Whoopi. 1 Smarmie Doofus Dec 2014 Dec 2014 5 1847

Why Children's Theatre Matters 3 antigop Dec 2014 Dec 2014 6 1987

University of Alabama at Birmingham to end football program, citing costs 2 Eugene Dec 2014 Dec 2014 4 1962

Teachers may lose tax break for school supplies 6 TexasTowelie Dec 2014 Dec 2014 13 2564

Three Myths About Teacher Tenure 1 eridani Nov 2014 Nov 2014 13 1946

Fortunately not every school in the country plays teach for the test. 0 elleng Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 1624

Just met a professor at a small MD college, 2 elleng Nov 2014 Nov 2014 6 2073

Students to Teach for America CEOs: You Are ‘Complicit’ in Attacks on Public Education 2 eridani Nov 2014 Nov 2014 20 2117

Looks like Arne phasing out local control in modifying test-taking for Special Education. 5 madfloridian Nov 2014 Nov 2014 16 2482

It’s starve, test, and destroy. How hunger games are coming to NY schools. 1 madfloridian Nov 2014 Nov 2014 8 1725

Robert Reich: Why College is Necessary, but Gets You Nowhere 0 eridani Nov 2014 Nov 2014 13 1736

toon- If testing is so great... 1 n2doc Nov 2014 Nov 2014 14 1861

Eva Moskowitz fundraiser brought almost 8 million to her Success Academy 1 madfloridian Nov 2014 Nov 2014 2 1866

Texas Approves Disputed History Texts for Schools 5 liberal N proud Nov 2014 Nov 2014 5 2699

Your children deserve better than this, first-grade teachers tell parents. 1 elleng Nov 2014 Nov 2014 26 2251

"They Spent 95 Million on that Thing and My Kids are in Trailers." 11 Smarmie Doofus Nov 2014 Nov 2014 40 4279

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