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Race-Concious Admissions Policies Benefit Students and the Workforce, According to Social Scientists
A group of social scientists today filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court with research offering a deeper understanding of how a diverse educational environment benefits White …
Six Reasons Teachers Unions Are Good for Kids
Our schools need teachers unions as much today as they ever have.
Economic Update: “Democracy at Work”
Updates on European crisis (creative Spanish anti-austerity politics, Mondragon avoids worst of crisis, suicides in response to crisis), Chilean students' strike against privatized education as bad education.
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Eight Problems With Common Core State Standards
Variously motivated corporate interests, arguing that the core was being sloppily taught, organized a behind-the-scenes campaign to super-standardize it.
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Many New York City Teachers Denied Tenure in Policy Shift
This trend reflects a reversal in the way tenure is granted around the country.
Blaming the Mirror: Lolo Jones and US Public Education
P.L. Thomas explains that Lolo Jones and other female Olympians are not the problem, they are a reflection of what the American people have come to expect.
Comics Journalism Takes on Education Reform
Read how Adam Bessie and Dan Archer, two
Think Tanks: The Invisible Hand of Policy
Do you know how to define a think tank? More importantly, do you know how much power they have in our lives?
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Where Is the Arts Funding to Create a Collective Sense of Beauty and Meaning in America?
Is America's national artistic identity the cultural equivalent of pink slime lunchmeat?
Exploding Number of Reading Teachers Reflects Test Prep Obsession sion
Another unintended consequence of the No Child Left Behind Legislation