Archives for April 20, 2012

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…

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…

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 …

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 …

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…

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…