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Study Shows NYC Charter School Suspensions Far Outpace Public School Ones 1 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1605
How conservatives capsized school reform 2 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1626
Testing company Pearson, NJ, spying on social media of students taking PARCC tests. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1643
Arizona cuts support for largest community colleges and Universities 4 n2doc Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2277
Kindergartners asked to ‘check out’ college scholarships and ‘select jobs’ 3 QED Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1683
Alaska legislature considers suspending reimbursements for school construction 0 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 0 1452
(CA) State suspends use of test scores to measure school quality 1 Starry Messenger Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1720
Lake County parents organizing, fighting back, opting out. Videos. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 2 1674
Lynn University To Track Student Attendance by iPad Location 4 Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1809
Testing company claims hacker attacks caused cancellation of Florida computer tests. 2 Sancho Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1670
When Kansas tests were hacked last year they trashed them. What will Florida do? 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1535
Thousands of comments delay WV science standards vote 1 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1731
Toon: What Happened to them? 2 n2doc Mar 2015 Mar 2015 7 1903
"Bursting the dam" that protects public schools from commercial exploitation. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 8 1815
What If My Favorite Thing To Do Is..... NOTHING? 0 Smarmie Doofus Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1744
Grade colleges on how well they teach teachers? Universities balk 3 alp227 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1907
Your Waitress, Your Professor 3 n2doc Dec 2014 Mar 2015 19 2788
NY Success Academy Charter Will Send 9,000 Students To Pro-Charter Rally. Close school for day. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2245
My college survived the Great Depression and after a unanimous vote by the Board of Trustees, 5 no_hypocrisy Mar 2015 Mar 2015 6 2002
I need some advice on our son. 44 RiffRandell Feb 2015 Mar 2015 0 5727
How to opt-out of FL tests..VERY carefully. How some plan to do so. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1619
Empathy, not Expulsion, for Preschoolers at Risk 1 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1961
Pennsylvania SRC approves five charters, all with conditions, out of 39 applicants 3 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1697
Newark Students’ Protest Gets Them Meeting with Superintendent 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1473
Kansas Bill Could Send Teachers to Jail for Six Months for Teaching "Harmful" Materials 6 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1961
Why Reading and Writing on Paper Beat Digital Screens For Boosting Your Brain 3 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1722
Change of Heart: How the 'Mother of School Choice' Came to Reject School Vouchers 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 1802
How Wall Street's Greedy Tentacles Sank Into Schools, Trapping Them in Massive Debts 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1557
Winnie, Bear Extraordinaire 0 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1638
Pre-Primary kids learned about magnets, domains, kinetic and potential energy today... 0 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1604

Education Continued...

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Powerful video 0 d_r Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1834
The debate over the existence of public schools 4 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1932
Third Way says NCLB testing must go on. Call us "anti-testing-and-accountability Democrats" 1 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1574
The Illusion of School Choice in New Orleans 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1617
Bad charter situation in Baltimore. Unpaid power bills, huge IRS tax liens. 0 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 1600
Getting ready for STEMFest! 2 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1816
Black Girls Are Suspended from School Six Times More Often Than White Girls 6 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1897
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 1863
Rick Scott and FL ed chief say have fewer tests. I agree. 2 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1682
One Connecticut Public School Student Was Restrained Over 700 Times in One Year 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1568
OLSAT test. What is this? 1 AllyCat Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 4357
Higher Ed: Technology, Art, Ethics and More Converge in 3-D Printing 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1515
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin: Let’s protect our children in schools 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1708
Higher Ed: 175 Years of History in 11 Minutes 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1569
The Anti-Standardized Testing Movement Claims a Victory in Chicago 0 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 1429
ESAs getting steam now. FL, AZ already turning state school money over to parents. 4 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1800
Excellent description of how FL's 2-tier education works. 0 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 1653
More Is More | Emanuele Corso 4 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 1768
Science Just Discovered Something Amazing About What Childhood Piano Lessons Did to You 8 antigop Jan 2015 Feb 2015 11 3564
What do you think of the College Board? 5 Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 2245
Weaponizing Children | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1564
Susana’s Trojan Horse | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1510
The Skandera Loop | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1449
Chancellor Carmen Fariña Changes New York City Schools’ Course. 2 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 1873
Anchorage Assembly passes property tax exemption for charter schools 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1590
Education Secretary Says Administration Is Committed to Testing. 3 elleng Jan 2015 Feb 2015 5 2203
"This International Student Edition is for use outside the U.S." 3 mike_c Feb 2015 Feb 2015 14 2160
A Boy Praises the Principal of His Brooklyn School, and a Fund-Raising Campaign Takes Off. 1 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 1948
3 articles about Deion Sanders charter school being shut down this week. 1 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 1772
Myth Busting Scott Walker's Bogus "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" Got Fired Story 0 Panich52 Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 2206

Education Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Higher Ed: The Ins & Outs of Liberal Arts 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 2043
"When you really listen to a child read, 2 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1938
Math and Science combine forces for 6th graders 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1610
Student writes how Jesus would give pot to the sick. Teacher put on admin leave, resigns. 14 madfloridian Dec 2014 Jan 2015 8 3297
Black Lives Matter—at School, Too 0 Starry Messenger Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 1507
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Eugene Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1263
Kindergarten writing in their journals 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1674
Civil rights groups back high stakes testing 7 eridani Jan 2015 Jan 2015 7 2120
Peter Greene's super description of Arne's words about testing. Curmudgucation. 3 madfloridian Jan 2015 Jan 2015 11 1956
What does math look like in second grade? 4 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 2288
Kindergarteners exploring the characteristics of paper, 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1525
Fulton school chief to Georgia Legislature: Raise teacher pay. Lower time spent on testing. 4 n2doc Jan 2015 Jan 2015 8 2082
Ethan's Story. Commentary on high stakes test obsession. 3 madfloridian Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1978
The Disturbing Transformation of Kindergarten 5 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 37 3382
anybody here teach phonological awareness? 11 ellenrr Dec 2014 Jan 2015 2 3233
Secret Agents for Change 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1545
X-post from Wisconsin: School Superintendent writes staff about legislative action in Madison 0 Scuba Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1659
xpost The most important skill in science or self-improvement is noticing the unexpected 0 n2doc Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 1601
Can't believe they gave a whole city of PA schools to these FL rich fools. 3 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 17 2099
Court gives York, PA schools to Charter Schools USA. Stripped local school board of power. 2 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 6 1782
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