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Education
Exploding Number of Reading Teachers Reflects Test Prep Obsession sion
Another unintended consequence of the No Child Left Behind Legislation
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Chicago School Board Member Benefits From District Budget Cut
School board member Penny Pritzkeru2019s Hyatt Hotels Corp. is benefiting from a $5.2 million [tax increment financing] subsidy u2026 while [Chicago Public Schoolsu2019] proposed 2013 budget cuts seven schools …
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Suspensions Are Higher for Disabled Students, Federal Data Indicate
Students with disabilities are almost twice as likely to be suspended from school as nondisabled students, with the highest rates among black children with disabilities.
The For-Profit College Racket
This is an industry that is by and large exploitative to its students and useless to the public good.
Schools Without Playgrounds, Children Without Childhood, a Future Without Hope
Schools are more and more beginning to resemble maximum-security prisons, but at least at most of those institutions, there is one hour of outdoor time.
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James Baldwin, Lisbeth Salander and the Rise of the Police State in Some Children’s Schools
P.L. Thomas discusses the fiction and reality of fear and power in the middle class cocoon.
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Ten Ways School Reformers Get It Wrong
When it comes to education reform, we're not trying to reinvent the wheel anymore; instead we're building square ones.
Congress Discovers: For-Profit Colleges Put Profits First
In December of last year, ranking House Member Elijah Cummings initiated an investigation of executive pay at for-profit educational institutions.
Charles Glass: With Annan’s Exit and Influx of Foreign Arms, Syria’s Violence “Seems the Only Way Out”
A hardening diplomatic impasse brings even more urgency to the violent crisis.
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Jim Hightower: Turning College Students Into Commodities
Turning Wall Street loose on college students will turn them into chattel indentured to investors.