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The third grade math question that has everyone puzzled
An elementary school math quiz has been generating outrage online for the teacher's questionable grading criteria.
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The Rise of the College Crybullies
In The Wall Street Journal, Roger Kimball writes about the rise of the college crybullies at Yale, Mizzou and elsewhere. The status of victim has been weaponized at campuses across the nation, but there is at least one encouraging sign.
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Free yoga class suspended over its 'cultural appropriation'
Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering the weekly yoga class at the University of Ottawa campus for seven years, said she was notified in September that the program was being ended.
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Princeton Student Group: We Stand for Academic Freedom and Open Dialogue
A Princeton University student group, Princeton Open Campus Coalition, has formed to resist the stifling of academic freedom and the atmosphere of intimidation on campus.
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The Business of Charter Schooling: Understanding the Policies that Charter Operators Use for Financial Benefit
This research brief details some of the prominent ways that individuals, companies, and organizations secure financial gain and generate profit by controlling and running charter schools.
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No Excuse
An Argument against Deceptive Metrics of School Success. By Emily Kaplan.
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Common Core takes a hit: N.Y. Gov. Cuomo’s task force recommends overhaul
Gov. Cuomo's task force calls for change in standards and testing.
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How the New Preschool Is Crushing Kids
Today’s young children are working more, but they’re learning less.
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The "Stealth Creationism" Movement in Schools
A new study reveals that efforts to teach anti-evolution lessons have multiplied and...evolved.
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Schools in Virginia shut over anger at Islam homework - CNN.com
Augusta County, Virginia, schools shut on sheriff's concerns about angry calls and emails over a world religion homework assignment on Islam at Riverheads High.
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Wittgenstein, Schoolteacher
What the philosopher learned from his time in elementary-school classrooms. By Spencer Robins.
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6 Education Stories To Watch In 2016
The long, grueling fight to overhaul the 14-year-old No Child Left Behind law is over, but that'll turn out to be the easy part.
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A Brief Catalogue of Minor Sex Scandals
By Martha Stallman.
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Are Charter Schools the New Subprime Mortgages?
A new study warns that we may be headed towards a charter school bubble. An interview with Preston Green.
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U.S. Supreme Court weighs key challenge to California’s largest teachers union
In a case with sweeping implications for public employee unions, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will hear a case challenging the right of California's largest teachers union's to collect fees from non-member teachers. By Howard Mintz.
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The testing opt-out movement is growing, despite government efforts to kill it
Education activists and parents say threats of sanctions from the U.S. Education Department won't deter them. By Valerie Strauss.
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How to Make History Exciting
One professor is borrowing a method from Harvard Business School to teach students about America’s past and inspire better judgment for the future. In a spacious classroom in Aldrich Hall on the Harvard Business School campus, 100 students are passionately discussing a case called “Battle Over a Bank.” But these aren’t MBA students deliberating over how much the government should regulate the financial sector. This group of mostly undergraduates...
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States consider allowing kids to learn coding instead of foreign languages
A former Yahoo executive turned Florida lawmaker is proposing allowing students to take computer science courses as an alternative to two required foreign language classes. But the proposal has been controversial with legislators and advocates for coding, who say foreign languages remain valuable.
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In This Poor Mississippi Town, Teacher Assistant Is a Coveted Job. It Pays $9 an Hour
Every weekday morning, Jasmine Riley, a single parent, drops her three children off at day care and school by 7:30 a.m. so she can start a long day as a teaching assistant at Greenville’s McBride Pre-K Academy. Many afternoons, she has only an hour and a half to spend with her kids... By Miriam Hall. (Jan. 21)
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‘What passes for acceptable school choice rhetoric is frightening’
An eyewitness account of a National School Choice Week event. By Valerie Strauss. (Jan. 30)
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