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Pearson gets paid millions to license passages from children's lit authors for s…

April 20, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Pearson gets paid millions to license passages from children's lit authors for standardized test questions when those writers actively try to be absurdist & defy convergent thinking. Why does this seem like an enormous waste of children's…

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President Obama supports nationalization of anti-bullying laws that protect LGBT…

April 20, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

President Obama supports nationalization of anti-bullying laws that protect LGBT or perceived LGBT youth from being a target of bullies. These were not included in ESEA revisions that the GOP-dominated House generated. Democratic Senators pledge to rai…

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Parents, teachers, & principals pushing back against high-stakes testing and pri…

April 20, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Parents, teachers, & principals pushing back against high-stakes testing and privatization of public schools gain ground. TX districts and NY school principals are especially vocal in decrying the use of tests for purposes they were never intended …

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Exclusionary zoning, the kind that disallows transfer permits from outside the d…

April 20, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

Exclusionary zoning, the kind that disallows transfer permits from outside the district and criminalizes parents for "residency fraud" when they simply try to send their kids to a better school than the one they're zoned for, would help …

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This public school law explicitly excludes the teaching of religions that are no…

April 20, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

This public school law explicitly excludes the teaching of religions that are not Christianity in seeming violation of the establishment clause. Surely a legal challenge is waiting to happen. cc Americans United for Separation of Church and State MOMoc…

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In NYC: concerns that children may be hungry clash w/ concerns that breakfast se…

April 20, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

In NYC: concerns that children may be hungry clash w/ concerns that breakfast served at school may further increase child obesity if children eat twice in the morning. Further complicating things: an obese child may also be a nutritionally deprived chi…

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