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Supreme Court Punts On Special Ed, ADA Cases 0 Jefferson23 May 2015 May 2015 2 1481

Let the kids learn through play. 3 elleng May 2015 May 2015 4 1904

Message to My Freshman Students 4 TexasTowelie May 2015 May 2015 1 2420

North Carolina To Teachers: No Free Speech For You! | Crooks and Liars 1 Panich52 May 2015 May 2015 2 1802

Student Course Evaluations Get An 'F' 4 n2doc Oct 2014 May 2015 5 2630

Many states mislead the public about whether students are proficient 1 Panich52 May 2015 May 2015 2 1563

Canadian Teachers Union Leading the Way on LGBT Issues 1 Smarmie Doofus May 2015 May 2015 0 1584

What’s the Point of a Professor? 15 n2doc May 2015 May 2015 4 3598

An Adjunct’s Farewell 4 n2doc May 2015 May 2015 8 2295

Juan Gonzalez: Feds did not keep track of over 3 billion going to charter schools. 7 madfloridian May 2015 May 2015 12 2625

Why My Charter School Needs a Union 0 Starry Messenger May 2015 May 2015 8 1598

Texas high school that doesn't teach sex ed surprised by chlamydia outbreak 3 eridani May 2015 May 2015 5 1857

John Oliver perfectly sums up everything that’s wrong with standardized testing 5 Starry Messenger May 2015 May 2015 16 2113

Building Hope$: Big charter, big money, big prizes, big hou$e$ 2 Starry Messenger May 2015 May 2015 4 2803

Fraud, Waste, and Lies: Charter Schools Cheating Communities Out of Millions of Dollars 0 eridani May 2015 May 2015 12 1767

How to Lose $1 Billion: Yeshiva University Blows Its Future on Loser Hedge Funds 0 eridani May 2015 May 2015 0 1661

Arne has nerve to threaten fed intervention over opt outs. Blames parents for test anxiety. 4 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 9 1961

NBC: Amid Funding Cuts, Will LSU Have to Declare 'Bankruptcy'? 0 Algernon Moncrieff Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 2013

So, the college search that began two years ago ended today 12 Algernon Moncrieff Apr 2015 Apr 2015 3 3449

Schools Warned On Pushing Families Into Due Process 2 Jefferson23 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 3 1860

An Alternative To Failed Education ‘Reform’ (If We Want One) 0 eridani Apr 2015 Apr 2015 7 1613

America Is Criminalizing Black Teachers 3 eridani Apr 2015 Apr 2015 10 2161

This Article May Be Illegal: Lifting the Veil of Silence on Standardized Testing 4 eridani Apr 2015 Apr 2015 6 2066

Many U.S. schools still resist challenging all their students. 0 elleng Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 1599

Big testing opt out in NY this week. 0 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 3 1637

My rant about what I think teachers might do in 2016. 0 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 5 1827

DeBlasio said they must stop enabling Moskowitz. But Cuomo to hold huge fundraiser for her. 1 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 5 2365

Eva Moskowitz Success Academy and the restroom usage rules. Unacceptable. 1 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 3 2098

Someone Calculated How Many Adjunct Professors Are on Public Assistance, and the Number Is Startling 5 n2doc Apr 2015 Apr 2015 21 2696

HEY HARRISON AND THE REST OF NEW YORK STATE IT'S TIME TO OPT OUT!!! 0 SoBronxSchool Apr 2015 Apr 2015 5 1710

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7 N.Y. Teachers of the Year blast Cuomo 1 n2doc Apr 2015 Apr 2015 7 2486

Senate Proposal Cuts Off Duncan at the Knees 7 LWolf Apr 2015 Apr 2015 9 2793

Children And Society As Fair Game | Emanuele Corso 4 Tace Apr 2015 Apr 2015 10 2088

Charter financing: Study finds too little accountability in California 0 alp227 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 1711

Game on! Teaching science with games 0 Panich52 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 2 1599

For some opting out of testing is easy. Those in public schools must fight battles. 0 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 3 1752

Arkansas school privatization bill fails 0 Panich52 Apr 2015 Apr 2015 4 1755

Albany charter schools. The education model that fell apart. 2 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 18 2126

The R-Word and Teaching Kids about the Power of Language 2 elleng Mar 2015 Apr 2015 2 1807

Two more FL Republican state senators speak strongly against overtesting. Kudos to them. 1 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 4 1808

Learning Through Tinkering 3 elleng Apr 2015 Apr 2015 4 1861

Oregon's 2014 Teacher of Year fired today. Had been warned not to speak about being gay. 4 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 11 2098

My post with the video of Republican FL state senator putting down Americans for Prosperity rep. 1 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 11 2014

The Right’s Fear of Education: What I Learned As a (Former) Conservative Military Man 5 Panich52 Mar 2015 Apr 2015 16 2564

NY Dems pass Cuomo bill with "heavy hearts". One holds his nose. They hold a majority... 1 madfloridian Apr 2015 Apr 2015 1 1676

If you need proof standardized testing is setting students up for failure, just ask the students. 2 eridani Mar 2015 Mar 2015 8 1923

Stunning revelation Bill Gates has spent $2.3 Billion on Common Core – #PARCC 5 eridani Mar 2015 Mar 2015 15 2494

Conservatives, Please Stop Trashing the Liberal Arts 0 question everything Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1958

Former Dean is Victorious in Legal Fight with For-Profit College After Blowing the Whistle 0 swarmster Mar 2015 Mar 2015 6 1670

Nancy Atwell. 3 LWolf Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1823

9 Billionaires Are About to Remake New York’s Public Schools—Here’s Their Story 3 Starry Messenger Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1889

Oregon's 2014 Teacher of Year placed on leave. Had been warned not to speak about being gay... 3 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1894

Kids have no idea what a VCR is. Nor VHS format. Makes me feel old. 5 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 2122

Alan Singer: Teaching History the Pearson Way 2 eridani Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1838

FL Republican House votes to cut back on testing. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1657

Miami Herald column: Florida flunked the test, failed the kids. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 2 1607

Caveon, Pearson's eye on internet...We "cast a really broad and deep net". 2 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 7 2172

PA Gov Tom Wolf spares York city schools from being handed over to FL charter school company. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 17 1881

Creationism teaching ban to be considered (in Scotland) 0 Erich Bloodaxe BSN Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 2098

Bipartisan Bill to Repeal Common Core is Proposed in Washington State 4 eridani Feb 2015 Mar 2015 3 2255

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Bellevue College in WA is fast becoming my favorite school! 1 liberal_at_heart Mar 2015 Mar 2015 9 1934

More about messed up Florida testing time. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1545

Study Shows NYC Charter School Suspensions Far Outpace Public School Ones 1 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1683

How conservatives capsized school reform 2 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1719

Testing company Pearson, NJ, spying on social media of students taking PARCC tests. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1712

Arizona cuts support for largest community colleges and Universities 4 n2doc Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2460

Kindergartners asked to ‘check out’ college scholarships and ‘select jobs’ 3 QED Mar 2015 Mar 2015 4 1814

Alaska legislature considers suspending reimbursements for school construction 0 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 0 1526

(CA) State suspends use of test scores to measure school quality 1 Starry Messenger Mar 2015 Mar 2015 5 1876

Lake County parents organizing, fighting back, opting out. Videos. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 2 1757

Lynn University To Track Student Attendance by iPad Location 4 Gidney N Cloyd Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1950

Testing company claims hacker attacks caused cancellation of Florida computer tests. 2 Sancho Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1775

When Kansas tests were hacked last year they trashed them. What will Florida do? 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 1594

Thousands of comments delay WV science standards vote 1 Panich52 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1817

Toon: What Happened to them? 2 n2doc Mar 2015 Mar 2015 7 1996

"Bursting the dam" that protects public schools from commercial exploitation. 0 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 8 1954

What If My Favorite Thing To Do Is..... NOTHING? 0 Smarmie Doofus Mar 2015 Mar 2015 1 1806

Grade colleges on how well they teach teachers? Universities balk 3 alp227 Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2160

Your Waitress, Your Professor 3 n2doc Dec 2014 Mar 2015 19 2926

NY Success Academy Charter Will Send 9,000 Students To Pro-Charter Rally. Close school for day. 1 madfloridian Mar 2015 Mar 2015 3 2357

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