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Bill Moyers | Messing With Texas Textbooks
In 2010, the Texas State Board of Education approved over 100 amendments to the social studies and economics curriculum standards.
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“No Child” Law Whittled Down by White House
In just five months, the Obama administration has freed schools in more than half the nation from central provisions of the No Child Left Behind education law, raising the …
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Republicans Respond to Supreme Court Upholding Health Care Law by Setting Date for Its Repeal
Millions of Americans have already benefited from the law.
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Cellphone Companies Will Share Your Location Data – Just Not With You
Cellphone companies hold onto your location information for years and routinely provide it to police and, in anonymized form, to outside companies.
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And You Thought It Would Be Easy? Graduating the Class of 2012 Onto Our Overheated Planet
Letu2019s admit something else about the heat today, as you bake under your graduation gowns: whether or not you have the figures at your fingertips, whether or not you …
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Michelle Rhee to For-Profit College Industry: You’re “Doing Incredible Work“
Although APSCU refused to allow Republic Report to cover its Las Vegas conference, we were able to obtain an audio recording of Michelle Rheeu2019s remarks today. You can listen …
Exclusive: Interview With Chris Hayes
"The tragic irony of the Obama years so far is that he inherited a country that was entering a crisis that the meritocracy produced, one that's bigger than the …
Beyond the Politics of the Big Lie: Education Deficit and New Authoritarianism
The American public is suffering from an education deficit and growing inability to think critically.
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The Biggest Problem With Traditional Schooling
Decades of teaching adolescents tell me that the single biggest problem kids face with traditional schooling is information overload. So much random, disorganized, disconnected information is dumped on them …
For-Profit Colleges Are Bankrolling Romney to Keep Student Loan Money Flowing
Unfortunately there is great pressure at this time to cut back on state educational funding. The for-profit schools have an incentive to lobby for these states'