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Does anyone know if WA schools are obligated to provide educational assistants to 10 liberal_at_heart Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 2280

Anyone here ever deal with WyzAnt tutoring, either as a student or a tutor ? 1 eppur_se_muova Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 1760

UNM gets supercomputer from NM Consortium 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 1492

Restorative Justice 1 elleng Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 1806

Why test-based school reform isn’t working — by the numbers 1 n2doc Feb 2014 Feb 2014 8 1824

Common Core Curriculum Now Has Critics on the Left. 7 elleng Feb 2014 Feb 2014 9 2714

The Real Problem with US Common Core: It Further Outsources Education 3 eridani Feb 2014 Feb 2014 11 2095

NYS Allies for Public Education Endorses anti-Common Core candidates to the Board of Regents 1 Renew Deal Feb 2014 Feb 2014 6 2056

Colorado superintendents unite in plea for money for K-12 education 1 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 1756

GAO urges more transparency, fee changes for student debit cards 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 1 1491

What Could be Wrong With ‘School Choice? 0 eridani Feb 2014 Feb 2014 8 1600

Paying teachers @ $3/hr like a babysitter would give them salaries of $105,000/year. 12 eridani Jan 2014 Feb 2014 9 3301

Principal stopped school’s shaming free lunch kids with hand stamps, says it got her fired 10 proud2BlibKansan Jan 2014 Feb 2014 49 4022

St. Paul teachers union heads mull strike vote; district braces 0 kickysnana Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 1616

Tennessee teachers push back on evaluation process 1 alp227 Feb 2014 Feb 2014 7 2154

Toon: Become a California Teacher! 4 n2doc Feb 2014 Feb 2014 41 2910

Question About Box Tops For Education 2 RiffRandell Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 1943

Colorado Springs charter school in turmoil over leadership, contracts 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 1898

Portland, Oregon, teachers vote to authorize strike 2 Eugene Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 1830

What is a "Virtual Charter School"?? 6 Redfairen Feb 2014 Feb 2014 0 2221

Why Aren’t Prep Schools Following Corporate Reforms? By diane ravitch 12 Jefferson23 Jan 2014 Feb 2014 16 3500

Long Beach City College experiments with tiered pricing 1 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 1917

Toon- Rotten to the Common Core 3 n2doc Feb 2014 Feb 2014 7 2090

Friend claims that teacher tenure enables child abuse 3 alp227 Feb 2014 Feb 2014 2 2521

Mayor de Blasio has GOT to read this article. 1 Smarmie Doofus Jan 2014 Feb 2014 1 1821

Republicans blitz four states with five creationism bills so far this year 0 unhappycamper Feb 2014 Feb 2014 3 1782

Texas board changes textbook review rules after years of cultural battles 2 Eugene Jan 2014 Feb 2014 10 2227

Toon- Merit Pay 5 n2doc Jan 2014 Jan 2014 21 2920

What the PS 154 Bronx Community Needs to Know About the Common Core, And Now! 0 SoBronxSchool Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 1597

Oh great. Developers starting to cash in on relaxed charter school limits 5 lutefisk Jan 2014 Jan 2014 5 2195

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An Unsafe Environment at PS 154 in the Bronx as Students Run Amok,Yet Again 2 SoBronxSchool Jan 2014 Jan 2014 0 1998

DR Alison Coviello; EdD and Principal Misplaces The Flash at PS 154 in the Bronx 2 SoBronxSchool Jan 2014 Jan 2014 0 2536

I'm wondering what unionized teachers and others think of the following arrangement: 2 Smarmie Doofus Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1909

Cuomo Sweetens Pre-K Deal: ‘Whatever’ Mayor Needs 1 elleng Jan 2014 Jan 2014 0 1944

Why Don't Republicans Want School Vouchers in Places Republicans Actually Live? 1 n2doc Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1953

Admins harangue student journalist over editorial critical of school's naming policy 0 UrbScotty Jan 2014 Jan 2014 5 1834

Teachers Fight Over Loss Of Tenure, New Contracts (NC) 1 n2doc Jan 2014 Jan 2014 5 1768

A U.S. Teacher in Finland: Teaching Less, Collaborating More 1 n2doc Jan 2014 Jan 2014 7 2000

Tuition-Free Public College Education Is Possible. Demand It. 2 unhappycamper Jan 2014 Jan 2014 7 1916

Truly learning math makes wise thinkers 5 TexasTowelie Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 2110

Houston school board bars race-based team names, mascots 0 Eugene Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 1644

Birmingham, AL seeks authority to void tenure for teachers working in 'innovation zone' 0 Redfairen Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1616

City College of San Francisco wins round in accreditation battle 5 Starry Messenger Jan 2014 Jan 2014 3 2578

Record year for Ohio charter school failures is unnerving proponents 7 DonViejo Jan 2014 Jan 2014 13 2500

Why I Defend Randi by Diane Ravitch 7 proud2BlibKansan Jan 2014 Jan 2014 8 2477

Banner Ad that summarizes why I dislike Business Schools 3 ThoughtCriminal Jan 2014 Jan 2014 3 2235

Nine students sue state of California for 'ineffective' teachers (Al Jazeera) 2 alp227 Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 2213

A poverty, not education, crisis in U.S. 2 elleng Dec 2013 Jan 2014 7 1915

A Ghost Town With a Quad 1 n2doc Nov 2013 Jan 2014 8 2005

Charter school con man admits to $7.2 million fraud 7 n2doc Jan 2014 Jan 2014 22 2686

Who are the Power Brokers behind the Common Core State Standards? 7 n2doc Jan 2014 Jan 2014 11 2650

So I am considering starting a website 0 blur256 Jan 2014 Jan 2014 10 1711

U.S. acts to keep minority, disabled students out of jail 1 Eugene Jan 2014 Jan 2014 4 1597

Clinton Pitches KKR-Backed College Chain Amid Controversy 0 n2doc Jan 2014 Jan 2014 3 1685

Education, wealth and school quality 17 NewJeffCT Jan 2014 Jan 2014 1 3380

Dial back group work 4 jeffrey_pdx Jan 2014 Jan 2014 2 1957

Downingtown (PA) school ranks first in state performance scores 1 modrepub Dec 2013 Jan 2014 1 1735

Librarian: With Emanuel’s pension plan “...I got two feet in the grave” 8 Starry Messenger Nov 2013 Jan 2014 7 2644

An *Educator* for Chancellor! "As absurd as that sounds." 11 Smarmie Doofus Dec 2013 Jan 2014 9 3665

Students Of New York City Tell Their New Mayor How Standardized Testing Squashes The Learning Bug 1 eridani Dec 2013 Dec 2013 10 1750

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Is Bloomberg's DOE Destroying Evidence of Possible Criminality? 0 Smarmie Doofus Dec 2013 Dec 2013 5 1563

"china teaches its kids to sit exams,sweden its kids to think"... 1 madrchsod Dec 2013 Dec 2013 7 2901

North Carolina Home Schools To Get Public School Money 5 n2doc Dec 2013 Dec 2013 2 2241

Subtract Teachers, Add Pupils: Math of Today’s Jammed Schools 1 n2doc Dec 2013 Dec 2013 9 1901

Agree or disagree: Kids from poor and working-class families do not have the opportunities... 11 YoungDemCA Nov 2013 Dec 2013 6 4006

UFT REP, Whistleblower, "Celebrates" 600 Days in Rubber Room 0 Smarmie Doofus Dec 2013 Dec 2013 5 1716

University of Utah explores using free, online, open-source textbooks 2 Redfairen Dec 2013 Dec 2013 3 1945

Sentence Cut in Texas for School Official Jailed in Test Scandal 0 n2doc Dec 2013 Dec 2013 3 1613

The assault on Indiana schools proceeds 1 caraher Dec 2013 Dec 2013 7 1751

The renewed war on the veteran teacher 20 proud2BlibKansan Sep 2013 Dec 2013 17 5065

Ponder This: Privately-Paid Advisors Embedded in NYS Dept of Ed..... 4 Smarmie Doofus Dec 2013 Dec 2013 9 2055

The PISA 2012 scores show the failure of 'market based' education reform 0 Redfairen Dec 2013 Dec 2013 6 1635

Test Prep/Diagnostics Gone Wild? 11 grntuscarora Nov 2013 Dec 2013 5 2794

Rhee backs out of debate with Ravitch 7 eridani Nov 2013 Dec 2013 14 2556

What’s Good For Bill Gates Turns Out To Be Bad For Public Schools 7 unhappycamper Dec 2013 Dec 2013 8 2711

What business is it of the government to fund high-quality preschool and child care? 1 Addison Dec 2013 Dec 2013 3 1926

How Poverty Impacts Students' Test Scores, In 4 Graphs 8 Starry Messenger Nov 2013 Dec 2013 11 3738

Teaching While Black and Blue 1 n2doc Nov 2013 Dec 2013 6 1840

Is Education ‘Reform’ Wrecking the Common Core? 10 eridani Oct 2013 Nov 2013 9 3097

MO state senator asks education commissioner to step down 0 proud2BlibKansan Nov 2013 Nov 2013 1 1706

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