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Test Mutiny: Tens of Thousands of New York Parents Revolt Against Standardized Exams
Children boycotted the annual English Language Arts exam.
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781 Million People Can’t Read This Story
There are still 58 million children out of school globally and around 100 million children who do not complete primary education.
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The “Two-Sizes-Fits-All” Approach to Bilingual Education Doesn’t Work
An Oregon bill to cut back time given ELL students to achieve English literacy defies the research on how long it can take.
“Test-imony”: Dr. Wayne Au’s Address to Washington State Legislature Against New Teacher Evaluation Bill
Politicians in Washington State are attempting to reduce educators to lifeless bits of inaccurate data.
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Nine Billionaires Are About to Remake New York’s Public Schools
An investigation reveals how a group of hedge funders are about to get exactly what they paid for.
The Need for Wisdom
The University of Everywhere, however, could just as easily be called the University of Nowhere because it exists only on the internet.
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The Erasure of US History Starts in Texas
When Texas state legislators scrapped the national history curriculum of the Advanced Placement program, it was part of a broader campaign of historical revisionism.
In the Age of Inequality, We Must Rethink the Education Status Quo
Resolution lies in a fairer distribution of material and cultural resources among the less well-off in society.
Children of the Code: Big Data, Little Kids
In the era of Big Data, children are tracked, analyzed and evaluated.
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Between the No Longer and the Not Yet: Culture Circle as Resistance to a Pedagogy of Sedation
Discipline in education is highly valued.