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Empathy, not Expulsion, for Preschoolers at Risk 1 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1904
Pennsylvania SRC approves five charters, all with conditions, out of 39 applicants 3 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1629
Newark Students’ Protest Gets Them Meeting with Superintendent 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1430
Kansas Bill Could Send Teachers to Jail for Six Months for Teaching "Harmful" Materials 6 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1875
Why Reading and Writing on Paper Beat Digital Screens For Boosting Your Brain 3 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1651
Change of Heart: How the 'Mother of School Choice' Came to Reject School Vouchers 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 1752
How Wall Street's Greedy Tentacles Sank Into Schools, Trapping Them in Massive Debts 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1524
Winnie, Bear Extraordinaire 0 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1599
Pre-Primary kids learned about magnets, domains, kinetic and potential energy today... 0 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1564
Powerful video 0 d_r Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1780
The debate over the existence of public schools 4 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1858
Third Way says NCLB testing must go on. Call us "anti-testing-and-accountability Democrats" 1 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1536
The Illusion of School Choice in New Orleans 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1580
Bad charter situation in Baltimore. Unpaid power bills, huge IRS tax liens. 0 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 6 1567
Getting ready for STEMFest! 2 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 2 1761
Black Girls Are Suspended from School Six Times More Often Than White Girls 6 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1818
Oklahoma Wants to Ban A.P. U.S. History, and There’s Nothing You Can Do About It 4 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 5 1792
Rick Scott and FL ed chief say have fewer tests. I agree. 2 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1623
One Connecticut Public School Student Was Restrained Over 700 Times in One Year 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1522
OLSAT test. What is this? 1 AllyCat Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 4293
Higher Ed: Technology, Art, Ethics and More Converge in 3-D Printing 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1484
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin: Let’s protect our children in schools 1 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1657
Higher Ed: 175 Years of History in 11 Minutes 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1538
The Anti-Standardized Testing Movement Claims a Victory in Chicago 0 eridani Feb 2015 Feb 2015 9 1401
ESAs getting steam now. FL, AZ already turning state school money over to parents. 4 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 3 1741
Excellent description of how FL's 2-tier education works. 0 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 1621
More Is More | Emanuele Corso 4 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 1697
Science Just Discovered Something Amazing About What Childhood Piano Lessons Did to You 8 antigop Jan 2015 Feb 2015 11 3438
What do you think of the College Board? 5 Algernon Moncrieff Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 2117
Weaponizing Children | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1532

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Susana’s Trojan Horse | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 1 1472
The Skandera Loop | Emanuele Corso 0 Tace Feb 2015 Feb 2015 0 1414
Chancellor Carmen Fariña Changes New York City Schools’ Course. 2 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 1810
Anchorage Assembly passes property tax exemption for charter schools 0 Panich52 Feb 2015 Feb 2015 4 1554
Education Secretary Says Administration Is Committed to Testing. 3 elleng Jan 2015 Feb 2015 5 2146
"This International Student Edition is for use outside the U.S." 3 mike_c Feb 2015 Feb 2015 14 2086
A Boy Praises the Principal of His Brooklyn School, and a Fund-Raising Campaign Takes Off. 1 elleng Feb 2015 Feb 2015 8 1896
3 articles about Deion Sanders charter school being shut down this week. 1 madfloridian Feb 2015 Feb 2015 7 1706
Myth Busting Scott Walker's Bogus "Outstanding Teacher of the Year" Got Fired Story 0 Panich52 Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 2144
Higher Ed: The Ins & Outs of Liberal Arts 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2015 Jan 2015 3 2010
"When you really listen to a child read, 2 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1873
Math and Science combine forces for 6th graders 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1572
Student writes how Jesus would give pot to the sick. Teacher put on admin leave, resigns. 14 madfloridian Dec 2014 Jan 2015 8 3121
Black Lives Matter—at School, Too 0 Starry Messenger Jan 2015 Jan 2015 6 1472
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 Eugene Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1233
Kindergarten writing in their journals 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1638
Civil rights groups back high stakes testing 7 eridani Jan 2015 Jan 2015 7 2048
Peter Greene's super description of Arne's words about testing. Curmudgucation. 3 madfloridian Jan 2015 Jan 2015 11 1887
What does math look like in second grade? 4 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 2242
Kindergarteners exploring the characteristics of paper, 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1491
Fulton school chief to Georgia Legislature: Raise teacher pay. Lower time spent on testing. 4 n2doc Jan 2015 Jan 2015 8 2026
Ethan's Story. Commentary on high stakes test obsession. 3 madfloridian Jan 2015 Jan 2015 5 1914
The Disturbing Transformation of Kindergarten 5 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 37 3306
anybody here teach phonological awareness? 11 ellenrr Dec 2014 Jan 2015 2 3087
Secret Agents for Change 0 elleng Jan 2015 Jan 2015 0 1515
X-post from Wisconsin: School Superintendent writes staff about legislative action in Madison 0 Scuba Jan 2015 Jan 2015 2 1625
xpost The most important skill in science or self-improvement is noticing the unexpected 0 n2doc Jan 2015 Jan 2015 1 1569
Can't believe they gave a whole city of PA schools to these FL rich fools. 3 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 17 2030
Court gives York, PA schools to Charter Schools USA. Stripped local school board of power. 2 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 6 1720
“Most people confuse arithmetic with math...” link 'fixed.' 7 elleng Dec 2014 Dec 2014 7 2443

Education Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Alfie Kohn's righteous anger. 1 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 12 2227
Typical PR special in Pinellas... 0 Sancho Dec 2014 Dec 2014 4 1532
To Raise Science Scores, Colleges Look Beyond the Lecture. 4 elleng Dec 2014 Dec 2014 0 1927
Banksy twitter cartoon on Modern Education. 1 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 14 5580
Florida makes sure that there are not too many A schools by adjusting standards yearly. 1 madfloridian Dec 2014 Dec 2014 8 1803
White House releases snapshot of plan to rate U.S. colleges 1 Eugene Dec 2014 Dec 2014 0 1552
New York City’s best public schools are harder to get into than the Ivy Leagues 0 n2doc Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 1519
12 Amazing Things Scientists Discovered This Year About People Who Listen to Music 8 antigop Dec 2014 Dec 2014 44 5531
Video: Jeopardy Names a Category "Non-Common Core Math." 2 Smarmie Doofus Dec 2014 Dec 2014 3 1960
Music and Math -- the genius of Beethoven (video) 0 antigop Dec 2014 Dec 2014 5 1589
New video series on Antiacademics. 0 lenrely Dec 2014 Dec 2014 1 1785
The Myth of Chinese Super Schools 3 ellenrr Dec 2014 Dec 2014 8 2115
22 yr old charter school owner outed by principal of his high school. More discrepancies as well. 3 madfloridian Nov 2014 Dec 2014 11 2306
I'm hearing the same thing over and over: Statewide anti-bullying programs are a joke. 7 RandySF Dec 2014 Dec 2014 0 2324
Osceola Co. teachers resign en masse over Common Core demands 0 Sancho Dec 2014 Dec 2014 16 1873
The Model Town Project 1 elleng Dec 2014 Dec 2014 3 1628
A Chicago Teacher Explains How Her School Fought Back Against Standardized Testing—And Won 1 eridani Dec 2014 Dec 2014 8 1634
at my daughters' first school: EDITED 1 elleng Dec 2014 Dec 2014 3 1828
The ACLU: Complaint Says Charter Schools Are Resegregating Public Education 21 QED Dec 2014 Dec 2014 32 6488
Of Cosby, Students First, Campbell Brown and Whoopi. 1 Smarmie Doofus Dec 2014 Dec 2014 5 1736
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