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Testing Wars: Opt-Out Movement Gains Momentum and Critics
A growing legion of parents, students and educators have joined the high-stakes battle over standardized tests.
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“Bible Learnin’“
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The First Survival University?
One US institution of higher learning may reorient its coursework to help address the world's most pressing challenges.
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Free Community College, Anyone?
An Oregon bill promises free community college tuition but targets only middle-class students, overlooking the other half of the costs.
Mass Incarceration: As Legislative Season Ends, Where Are the Broad Reforms?
The mushrooming prison population is a political ticking time bomb.
Scrap the MAP test: My Kindergartener Joins the Opt Out Movement
The new Common Core standards, and the tests meant to measure student's progress, are dramatically developmentally inappropriate.
Congress Gets 400,000 Signatures Demanding Debt-Free College
College students currently face more than $1.3 trillion of education debt in the US.
Pathologizing the Poor Reinforces Stigma While Deterring Advocacy and Public Policy
The poor don't rate a mention in our public consciousness or political campaigns because we are inconvenient and pathologized.
How Standardized Testing Reveals Stark Inequalities Between Rich and Poor
Is the call for more testing just another way to maintain the status quo?
“Stop Blaming Teachers, Start Funding Schools”: More Than 30,000 Teachers Walk Out in Protest of Big Class Sizes in Washington State
Let the Washington State Legislature know that they must come up with the money for our schools.