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What You Need to Know About the Seattle Teachers’ Rebellion and the Deeply Flawed Test That Inspired It
Tests based on junk science have pushed Seattle's teachers to the edge.
Voices From DC: Speaking Up for Schools and a Quality Education in Communities of Color
School closures siphon resources from public schools into private ventures, entrusting education to corporations.
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Does American Exceptionalism Foster American Decline?
The chauvinistic definition of exceptionalism has become common in the rhetoric of politicians.
Seattle’s Teacher Uprising: High School Faculty Faces Censure for Boycotting Standardized MAP Tests
Earlier this month, teachers at Garfield High School in Seattle, Washington, voted unanimously to stop administering a widely used standardized test, calling them wasteful and unfairly used to grade …
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Online Education: Another Phony “Revolution“
Out-sourcing takes on a new dimension in education.
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“It’s Not Going to be the Same”: The School Year After Hurricane Sandy
Students who were displaced by Sandy are still struggling to get their academic feet back on the ground.
Seattle Teachers’ Boycott of High Stakes Tests Spreads
Educators nationwide support growing Seattle teacher boycott of high stakes tests.
Team Obama Mastered the Science of Mass Persuasion – And Won
Each person got a score, and the scores drove the army of Obama volunteers' every move.
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Henry A. Giroux | The New Extremism and Politics of Distraction in the Age of Austerity
Important issues like creeping authoritarianism are being buried in the fog of manufactured crises.
What’s Worth Learning: How Outdated Curricula are Failing America’s Students
(Image: Students in class via Shutterstock)It goes without saying that solving a problem begins with a correct diagnosis of its cause. When Michael Gerson, President George W. Bush’s chief …