Education

What Happened With the Chicago Teacher Strike, Explained

After an almost unanimous vote by delegates of the Chicago Teachers Union, 350,000 Chicago students returned to school today.

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| Tue Sep. 11, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Explicitly Fake Science Book Banned in Texas School District

With chapters like "Chemistry: Blowing Things Up With Science," the book "Fake Science 101" is clearly a farce—but the joke went right over the heads of some school officials.

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| Wed Sep. 5, 2012 12:59 PM PDT

Everything You've Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong

Using test scores to evaluate teachers—the main issue in the Chicago strike—is deeply problematic, as I found out in a year of immersion in an inner-city high school.

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| Wed Aug. 22, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

The Kids Are All Right

Students today score better on tests than you did.

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| Wed Aug. 22, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

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Is Putting Boys and Girls in Separate Classrooms Legal?

Hundreds of public schools are segregating kids by sex, citing discredited research on learning differences.

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| Tue Aug. 21, 2012 3:01 AM PDT
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The Explosive Growth of For-Profit Higher Education, By the Numbers

High tuition, low retention rates, and aggressive recruiting are great for business—but terrible for education.

By Suevon Lee, ProPublica

 | Mon Aug. 13, 2012 3:01 AM PDT

Louisiana School Revokes Pregnancy Policy

After the ACLU complained, a public charter school agreed to drop its policy of booting pregnant students.

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| Thu Aug. 9, 2012 11:50 AM PDT
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14 Wacky "Facts" Kids Will Learn in Louisiana's Voucher Schools

Slave masters were nice, the KKK is A-OK, and the Great Depression is a liberal fantasy. Thanks, Gov. Jindal!

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| Tue Aug. 7, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Louisiana School Boots Pregnant Students

The ACLU of Louisiana targets charter school for forcing students to submit to pregnancy tests.

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| Mon Aug. 6, 2012 12:10 PM PDT
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Is the Natural Gas Industry Buying Academics?

Authors of pro-fracking studies are coming under fire for their cozy relationships with the fossil fuel industry.

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| Mon Jul. 30, 2012 3:00 AM PDT

Charts: Women's Athletics, 40 Years After Title IX

How the landmark gender-equity law has—and hasn't—evened the playing field.

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| Fri Jun. 22, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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MoJo to UCLA: Release the Milken Documents!

The university is withholding its $10 million donor agreement with Lowell Milken, a lawyer was banned from the securities industry for life in the wake of the junk bonds and savings and loan scandals.

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| Wed Jun. 20, 2012 4:30 AM PDT
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Grieving Father Struggles to Pay Dead Son’s Student Loans

How one family's struggle with their young son's death has been compounded by their need to pay off his massive student loans.

— By Marian Wang, ProPublica

| Mon Jun. 18, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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The Real Reason the Ivy League is Better Than UCLA

Public universities used to be every bit as good as private. Budget cuts put an end to that.

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| Sat Jun. 16, 2012 8:52 AM PDT

VIDEO: Scott Walker's Strategy Is "New Model for the Country"

A top conservative activist admits it: Walker's war on unions is the GOP's new national game plan.

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| Sat Jun. 2, 2012 9:49 AM PDT
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Scott Walker Aide Wanted Union Foe Michelle Rhee to Counter Teacher Protests, Email Shows

Rhee did stump for Walker's anti-union reforms on TV, but never made it to Wisconsin.

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| Fri Jun. 1, 2012 3:32 AM PDT
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It's Hard Out There for a Harvard Alum

Free advice: Stop telling people you "went to school in Cambridge."

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| Tue May. 29, 2012 11:27 AM PDT
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Can Code for America Save Our Broke Cities?

Jen Pahlka on dumb bureaucracy, government as a vending machine, and Silicon Valley sexism.

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| Tue May. 29, 2012 3:00 AM PDT
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Romney Education Adviser and His Dropout Scandal

The GOP candidates picks a Bush has-been to advise him on education policy—and ducks the fellow's controversial past.

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| Tue May. 22, 2012 9:26 AM PDT
California Committing Educational Suicide

California Committing Educational Suicide

College costs are up and enrollment is down. This spells disaster for our future growth.

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| Fri May. 11, 2012 12:01 AM PDT