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Disparaging tweet about Gov. Sam Brownback lands Kansas teen in principal’s office
A Kansas teenager is in trouble after mocking Gov. Sam Brownback during a mock legislative assembly for high school students. Emma Sullivan, a senior at Shawnee Mission East… Read more
Failure of U.S. Public Secondary Schools in Mathematics
by Michael Marder – Poverty is a More Important Cause than Teacher Quality The loss of Yoke Peter and Yoke Yoke presented a problem of unprecedented difficulty, the solution of… Read more
Lucas v. Henrico County Schools: Multi-Million Dollar Settlement Offer On The Table
After being advised to hold a settlement meeting within the next fifty days by Fourth Circuit Court Federal Judge Robert Payne’s November 11, 2011, court order, Kandise Lucas, a former special… Read more
GAO scrutinizes for-profit colleges
Seven of 12 for-profit colleges attended online by undercover U.S. investigators violated school policies on cheating, grading standards and loan counseling, a report by the Government Accountability Office… Read more
Textbooks Finally Take a Big Leap to Digital
PARIS — Amazon, which got its start selling books online, announced this year that, for the first time, its digital books had outsold paper books. This trend of going digital… Read more
College officials vote to evict Occupy Seattle
SEATTLE – Occupy Seattle is no longer welcome at a local community college, but the dozens of protesters who have been camping there don’t have to leave right… Read more
The Death of the Individual
by David Solway The displacement of the “individual” as a primary category of social and political thought — a distinctly observable trend in the contemporary West —… Read more
Kids at F-rated school cut class and ‘smoke weed’ instead
An F-rated Bronx high school has failed to provide nearly 300 students with English teachers since the third week of the school year, the Daily News has learned. For nearly… Read more
Science and Western Civilization
By William H. Young – By William H. Young America was founded upon uses of science and technology, in accord with societal ideals, to improve man’s material condition,… Read more
The Nation’s Report Card: Congress Fails Test on Helping Students Learn
Matt Larsen – Earlier this month, the National Center for Education Statistics released another round of results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), also known as the Nation’s… Read more
