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The 60th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Ed in the Shadow of 'School Choice' 1 Jefferson23 May 2014 May 2014 0 1759

Toon: Test for Admins 4 n2doc May 2014 May 2014 13 2059

Silhouette Man Sums It Up: WTF is Wrong With Americans? 3 TexasTowelie May 2014 May 2014 6 2340

'Tis the season (when failing students go berserk) 2 NJCher Apr 2014 May 2014 4 2164

Teach For America To Bolster Special Education Training 12 Jefferson23 Mar 2014 May 2014 3 4299

Should a High School Graduate 19 Riftaxe May 2014 May 2014 0 4164

Frank Bruni-The Plutocrats' Pundit 7 Smarmie Doofus Nov 2013 May 2014 2 4070

Arne Duncan can keep his cynical NCLB waiver — Washington school board member 8 elleng May 2014 May 2014 12 2568

WA educator sends scathing letter to Arne. 3 madfloridian May 2014 May 2014 16 2066

The scary way Common Core test ‘cut scores’ are selected 2 n2doc May 2014 May 2014 12 2203

The Tale of Two Schools 6 elleng May 2014 May 2014 11 2576

Check out my DKos post about FL's horrific harm done to one county. 6 madfloridian May 2014 May 2014 13 2947

NYS EDUCATORS AND LAWYERS!! I have a question about NY school law 3 FourScore Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 1962

NC Judge Blocks Anti-Tenure Law 0 Sherman A1 Apr 2014 Apr 2014 7 1993

Toon- A Common Core Graduation 1 n2doc Apr 2014 Apr 2014 5 3169

group in Colorado seeks to reclaim education 7 ellenrr Apr 2014 Apr 2014 6 2674

UNC reading specialist says she is resigning 0 Mosby Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 1632

The Education Police State Comes to Rye NY 1 SoBronxSchool Apr 2014 Apr 2014 2 3482

Suggestions for high school musician 5 exboyfil Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 3468

Revised SAT Won’t Include Obscure Vocabulary Words. 11 elleng Apr 2014 Apr 2014 1 5427

Why Jeb Bush's Greatest Political Achievement Could Sink a White House Run 3 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 1 2424

I’m one of the worst teachers in my state 8 n2doc Apr 2014 Apr 2014 15 3315

Revolution Against Corporate Education Targets Achilles Heel--Profit 2 eridani Apr 2014 Apr 2014 11 1846

NYC Ed Bureaucracy: Are They *Arresting* Critics Now? 1 Smarmie Doofus Apr 2014 Apr 2014 6 2128

Iowa schools struggle to pass federal standard 5 unhappycamper Apr 2014 Apr 2014 1 2179

'Act of Conscience' as Teachers Vow Permanent Boycott of Common Core 3 eridani Apr 2014 Apr 2014 9 2306

March and Rally in NYC Against Cuomo Ed Reform - 4 pm Thursday 1 Smarmie Doofus Apr 2014 Apr 2014 5 1826

Permian teachers: Evaluations are false 3 mbperrin Apr 2014 Apr 2014 9 2255

We Need to Talk About the Test. 3 elleng Apr 2014 Apr 2014 7 1968

VEISHEA events except Spring Football game cancelled 3 exboyfil Apr 2014 Apr 2014 0 2911

Education Continued...

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Down goes Reed 0 Starry Messenger Apr 2014 Apr 2014 3 1894

Ravitch: Opt Your Child Out of State Testing: Don't Feed the Machine 18 eridani Apr 2014 Apr 2014 13 4423

Can anyone name this fiction book: a better world where children and adults learn at their own 4 ellenrr Apr 2014 Apr 2014 1 2067

Mr. de Blasio: Tear Up This Blacklist 0 Smarmie Doofus Apr 2014 Apr 2014 3 1922

The Perfect Lobby: How One Industry Captured Washington 1 n2doc Apr 2014 Apr 2014 6 1892

Has Teach For America reached its Waterloo? 0 n2doc Apr 2014 Apr 2014 10 8318

Share Your Story about the Common Core Tests By dianeravitch 2 Jefferson23 Mar 2014 Mar 2014 4 2251

a tip from my daughters' pre-k - 3rd grade school, 0 elleng Mar 2014 Mar 2014 4 1722

You Can’t Bounce Off the Walls if There are No Walls: Outdoor Schools-- 2 eridani Mar 2014 Mar 2014 7 2121

New insight into how children learn maths (BBC) 2 eppur_se_muova Mar 2014 Mar 2014 0 10382

Teacher-Whistleblower Portelos JAILED for..... wait for it....... BLOG POST. 4 Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 Mar 2014 13 3137

I didn't think opting out of testing would be a big deal; boy, was I wrong 8 TexasTowelie Mar 2014 Mar 2014 16 2676

50 myths and lies about public schools 4 n2doc Mar 2014 Mar 2014 10 2816

Teachers And Friends: Check-out This Online Petition To End The Blacklisting Of NYC Educators 1 Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 Mar 2014 7 1791

Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word 0 elleng Mar 2014 Mar 2014 1 1598

Mass. schools require dramatic change, report says 3 alp227 Mar 2014 Mar 2014 2 2219

Tell me about Charlotte Danielson, please. [View all] 55 femmocrat Feb 2014 Mar 2014 2 36763

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wants to ‘steadlily’ replace school boards with charter schools 6 Starry Messenger Mar 2014 Mar 2014 6 2416

Illinois budget cuts could mean 13,400 teacher layoffs 2 Redfairen Mar 2014 Mar 2014 4 1780

Common Core Standards: A Costly and Ineffective Prescription for Schools 1 texshelters Mar 2014 Mar 2014 7 1915

Teacher Gets 58 Surprise Classroom Observations. 11 Smarmie Doofus Mar 2014 Mar 2014 19 3529

Toon: American Education 15 n2doc Jan 2014 Mar 2014 33 4243

Florida mother has to prove her dying son can't take a standardized test 5 eridani Feb 2014 Mar 2014 14 2330

To Keep Teenagers Alert, Schools Let Them Sleep In. 11 elleng Mar 2014 Mar 2014 4 3175

Rules to limit marketing unhealthy food in schools 1 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Mar 2014 2 1789

Valerie Strauss- The link between charter school expansion and increasing segregation 1 n2doc Mar 2014 Mar 2014 7 2243

How to learn like a memory champion (BBC) 0 eppur_se_muova Mar 2014 Mar 2014 2 1784

College, the Great Unleveler 2 exboyfil Mar 2014 Mar 2014 0 4195

The Lurking Disaster of American Education, Why Do We Work So Hard? 2 GoLeft TV Feb 2014 Mar 2014 6 1926

Jeb Bush's Friends Cashing In On Kids. 3 DhhD Mar 2014 Mar 2014 8 2126

Education Continued...

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I just went to the TFA website and am aghast at the horrible wages! 14 AllyCat Feb 2014 Mar 2014 13 5211

This message was self-deleted by its author 3 femmocrat Mar 2014 Mar 2014 1 1840

David Welch: The Man Behind Vergara v. California 0 Starry Messenger Mar 2014 Mar 2014 3 1686

Charter Schools to March in Albany, NY 2 NJCher Mar 2014 Mar 2014 5 2092

The Myth Behind Public School Failure 7 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Mar 2014 14 3079

Washington State Senate revolts against teaching to the test in key vote 1 eridani Feb 2014 Mar 2014 12 1857

BREAKING: Federal Consumer Agency Sues For-Profit College ITT Tech 2 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 7 2617

Does anyone know if WA schools are obligated to provide educational assistants to 10 liberal_at_heart Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 2530

Anyone here ever deal with WyzAnt tutoring, either as a student or a tutor ? 1 eppur_se_muova Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 1867

UNM gets supercomputer from NM Consortium 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 1566

Restorative Justice 1 elleng Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 1888

Why test-based school reform isn’t working — by the numbers 1 n2doc Feb 2014 Feb 2014 8 1915

Common Core Curriculum Now Has Critics on the Left. 7 elleng Feb 2014 Feb 2014 9 2925

The Real Problem with US Common Core: It Further Outsources Education 3 eridani Feb 2014 Feb 2014 11 2256

NYS Allies for Public Education Endorses anti-Common Core candidates to the Board of Regents 1 Renew Deal Feb 2014 Feb 2014 6 2155

Colorado superintendents unite in plea for money for K-12 education 1 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 1853

GAO urges more transparency, fee changes for student debit cards 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 1587

What Could be Wrong With ‘School Choice? 0 eridani Feb 2014 Feb 2014 8 1691

Paying teachers @ $3/hr like a babysitter would give them salaries of $105,000/year. 12 eridani Jan 2014 Feb 2014 9 3760

Principal stopped school’s shaming free lunch kids with hand stamps, says it got her fired 10 proud2BlibKansan Jan 2014 Feb 2014 49 4386

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