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A 6th grader tells us kids need more time to eat in school. 10-15 minutes for lu…

April 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

A 6th grader tells us kids need more time to eat in school. 10-15 minutes for lunch isn't enough. Do your kids report being rushed for time to eat at school? Interestingly, the 6th grader draws a connection between the youth obesity epidemic and a…

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Arts education fosters creativity & the arts spur economic growth. For an exampl…

April 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Arts education fosters creativity & the arts spur economic growth. For an example of the latter, look at Broadway & Hollywood. The arts matter, California! And you won't get arts education from a bubble test. Put it back in the schools for…

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Organizations & individuals! Sign this resolution or get your school board/distr…

April 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Organizations & individuals! Sign this resolution or get your school board/district/office of ed to endorse, & make standardized tests the low-stakes, diagnostic tool they were used as before NCLB's passage.National Resolution on High-Stak…

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Michael Hiltzik revives a core principle of the UC Master Plan of the 1960s: a f…

April 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Michael Hiltzik revives a core principle of the UC Master Plan of the 1960s: a free UC college education to in-state students who qualify. Could we have had the Earl Warrens (Supreme Court Justice) or Maxine Hong Kingstons (National Humanities medal wi…

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A wonderful Earth Day story: at a Los Angeles city school, a garden of native pl…

April 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

A wonderful Earth Day story: at a Los Angeles city school, a garden of native plants situated where concrete had been drew bugs, birds, butterflies…and children who found science they could study there so engaging science test scores have been on the…

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Robo-graders as good as human standardized essay test graders, claims a recent s…

April 23, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Robo-graders as good as human standardized essay test graders, claims a recent study. (Who paid for the study?) Yet tests done by an independent skeptic show the robo-grader can be easily gamed with random, incorrect facts and wordy writing. A great e…

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Quick Education Voter’s Guide to the California CD34 Race, April 4, 2017

There are twenty-three candidates running to fill former Congressman Xavier Bacerra’s seat in Congressional District 34 in Southern California. (Bacerra is currently the state’s Attorney General, replacing Kamala Harris, who, after November 8, 2016, became our US Senator.) Election Day is Tuesday, April 4, 2017, 7:00 am to 8:00 pm. You can find your polling […]

Betsy DeVos, #NOTMYSDOE

Take the pledge to #resist and fight for public schools as a public good TODAY. DeVos had to have the assistance of Vice President Mike Pence’s unprecedented tie-breaking vote in order to win her confirmation. Two GOP Senators voted against, all Democratic Senators voted against. Yet all the other GOP Senators who received campaign donations […]

Next #DemDebate MUST Include K-12 Education Policy

The next #DemDebate is scheduled for the important primary state of Iowa on November 14, 2015. It’ll be broadcast by CBS in partnership with the Des Moines Register. Professor Julian Vasquez Heilig is leading the call for the families of 50 million students K-12 across the nation and the communities they live in to have […]

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