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Direct the Department of Education and Congress to Remove Annual Standardized Testing Mandates of NCLB and RttT
Standardized testing in schools doesn't solve the education achievement gap and hurts schools.
Bonding Through Bars: Time To Tear Down Those Walls
Incarcerating mothers punishes their children, as well. It's time to reconsider the whole practice, says Samantha Sarra.
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Conservatives Offer Americans Empty Stomachs and Empty Rhetoric
Paul Ryan says that “the left” is offering Americans “a full stomach and an empty soul.” The truth is that conservatives like Paul Ryan are offering Americans empty stomachs …
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Polio Continues To Be a Major Threat for Millions of Children
This month the WHO and UNICEF will give polio vaccinations to 10 million children across the Middle East.
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This Is What Happened When Scholastic Tried To Bring Pro-Coal Propaganda to School
“The United States of Energy” was a colorful series of lessons on the advantages of coal, aimed at 4th-graders, and sponsored by Big Coal. Here's how educators and activists …
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Burned, Bombed, Beaten – Education Under Attack Worldwide
In a troubling twist to modern warfare, public squares are now common sites of protest and violence, while hospitals treating the wounded are considered fair game. But perhaps the …
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Oklahoma Legislators Declare War on Working Poor
It's official: Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and Republicans in the Oklahoma Legislature don't care about the working poor or their children.
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Massachusetts Teachers Aim To Knock Down “Data Walls“
Data walls are widely seen as the latest front in a war being fought by educators, parents and students nationwide against “predatory education reform.”
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Salt and Terror in Afghanistan
Non-military aid to Afghanistan, sent by the US since 2002, now approaches 100 billion dollars.
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Why Common Core Isn’t the Answer
This is why dozens of other scholars have been saying the same thing for at least the last several hundred years: What we're doing isn't working!