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Caveon, Pearson's eye on internet...We "cast a really broad and deep net". 2 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 7 2471
PA Gov Tom Wolf spares York city schools from being handed over to FL charter school company. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 17 2085
Creationism teaching ban to be considered (in Scotland) 0 Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 2339
Bipartisan Bill to Repeal Common Core is Proposed in Washington State 4 eridani Feb 2015 Mar 2015 3 2685
Bellevue College in WA is fast becoming my favorite school! 1 liberal_at_heart Mar 2015 Mar 2015 9 2192
More about messed up Florida testing time. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1747
Study Shows NYC Charter School Suspensions Far Outpace Public School Ones 1 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1916
How conservatives capsized school reform 2 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1993
Testing company Pearson, NJ, spying on social media of students taking PARCC tests. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1910
Arizona cuts support for largest community colleges and Universities 4 n2doc Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2919
Kindergartners asked to ‘check out’ college scholarships and ‘select jobs’ 3 QED Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 2123
Alaska legislature considers suspending reimbursements for school construction 0 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 0 1728
(CA) State suspends use of test scores to measure school quality 1 Starry Messenger Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 2194
Lake County parents organizing, fighting back, opting out. Videos. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 2 1982
Lynn University To Track Student Attendance by iPad Location 4 Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 2322
Testing company claims hacker attacks caused cancellation of Florida computer tests. 2 Sancho Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 2043
When Kansas tests were hacked last year they trashed them. What will Florida do? 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1795
Thousands of comments delay WV science standards vote 1 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 2063
Toon: What Happened to them? 2 n2doc Mar 2015 Mar 2015 7 2222
"Bursting the dam" that protects public schools from commercial exploitation. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 8 2274
What If My Favorite Thing To Do Is..... NOTHING? 0 Smarmie Doofus Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 2019
Grade colleges on how well they teach teachers? Universities balk 3 alp227 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2607
Your Waitress, Your Professor 3 n2doc Dec 2014 Mar 2015 19 3285
NY Success Academy Charter Will Send 9,000 Students To Pro-Charter Rally. Close school for day. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2626
My college survived the Great Depression and after a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees, 5 no_hypocrisy Mar 2015 Mar 2015 6 2565
I need some advice on our son. 44 RiffRandell Feb 2015 Mar 2015 0 9715
How to opt-out of FL tests..VERY carefully. How some plan to do so. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1899
Empathy, not Expulsion, for Preschoolers at Risk 1 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 2340
Pennsylvania SRC approves five charters, all with conditions, out of 39 applicants 3 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 2179
Newark Students’ Protest Gets Them Meeting with Superintendent 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1736

Education Continued...

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Kansas Bill Could Send Teachers to Jail for Six Months for Teaching "Harmful" Materials 6 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 2619
Why Reading and Writing on Paper Beat Digital Screens For Boosting Your Brain 3 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 2173
Change of Heart: How the 'Mother of School Choice' Came to Reject School Vouchers 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 2215
How Wall Street's Greedy Tentacles Sank Into Schools, Trapping Them in Massive Debts 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1847
Winnie, Bear Extraordinaire 0 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1930
Pre-Primary kids learned about magnets, domains, kinetic and potential energy today... 0 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1909
Powerful video 0 d_r Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 2179
The debate over the existence of public schools 4 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 2405
Third Way says NCLB testing must go on. Call us "anti-testing-and-accountability Democrats" 1 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1932
The Illusion of School Choice in New Orleans 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1895
Bad charter situation in Baltimore. Unpaid power bills, huge IRS tax liens. 0 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 1887
Getting ready for STEMFest! 2 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 2242
Black Girls Are Suspended from School Six Times More Often Than White Girls 6 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 2643
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 2406
Rick Scott and FL ed chief say have fewer tests. I agree. 2 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 2068
One Connecticut Public School Student Was Restrained Over 700 Times in One Year 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1894
OLSAT test. What is this? 1 AllyCat Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 5111
Higher Ed: Technology, Art, Ethics and More Converge in 3-D Printing 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1807
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin: Let’s protect our children in schools 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 2044
Higher Ed: 175 Years of History in 11 Minutes 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1866
The Anti-Standardized Testing Movement Claims a Victory in Chicago 0 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 1726
ESAs getting steam now. FL, AZ already turning state school money over to parents. 4 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 2304
Excellent description of how FL's 2-tier education works. 0 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 1954
More Is More | Emanuele Corso 4 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 2296
Science Just Discovered Something Amazing About What Childhood Piano Lessons Did to You 8 antigop Jan 2015 Feb 2015 11 4643
What do you think of the College Board? 5 Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 3029
Weaponizing Children | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1838
Susana’s Trojan Horse | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1777
The Skandera Loop | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1718
Chancellor Carmen Fariña Changes New York City Schools’ Course. 2 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 2314

Education Continued...

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Anchorage Assembly passes property tax exemption for charter schools 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1888
Education Secretary Says Administration Is Committed to Testing. 3 elleng Jan 2015 Feb 2015 5 2718
"This International Student Edition is for use outside the U.S." 3 mike_c Feb 2015 Feb 2015 14 2749
A Boy Praises the Principal of His Brooklyn School, and a Fund-Raising Campaign Takes Off. 1 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 2343
3 articles about Deion Sanders charter school being shut down this week. 1 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 2131
Myth Busting Scott Walker's Bogus "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" Got Fired Story 0 Panich52 Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 2586
Higher Ed: The Ins & Outs of Liberal Arts 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 2338
"When you really listen to a child read, 2 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 2623
Math and Science combine forces for 6th graders 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1899
Student writes how Jesus would give pot to the sick. Teacher put on admin leave, resigns. 14 madfloridian Dec 2014 Jan 2015 8 4581
Black Lives Matter—at School, Too 0 Starry Messenger Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 1790
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Eugene Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1490
Kindergarten writing in their journals 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1952
Civil rights groups back high stakes testing 7 eridani Jan 2015 Jan 2015 7 2871
Peter Greene's super description of Arne's words about testing. Curmudgucation. 3 madfloridian Jan 2015 Jan 2015 11 2432
What does math look like in second grade? 4 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 2789
Kindergarteners exploring the characteristics of paper, 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1813
Fulton school chief to Georgia Legislature: Raise teacher pay. Lower time spent on testing. 4 n2doc Jan 2015 Jan 2015 8 2612
Ethan's Story. Commentary on high stakes test obsession. 3 madfloridian Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 2419
The Disturbing Transformation of Kindergarten 5 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 37 3969
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