| Portland, Oregon schools let students skip required phys ed classes, if they earn credits from a private company called Quest Schools.
To sign up, students pay $150 for the year and agree to spend... | |
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| Ohio is closing two chronically low-performing charter schools. That’s good. But the perform-or-else rule applies only to charters. Fourteen district-run schools would be closed if the same... | |
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| Democrats are split on education, writes Paul Tough in the New York Times Magazine. Teachers’ unionists want to protect job security and dump testing and accountability; reformers advocate... | |
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| California’s best and worst students “are likely to speak English as a second language,” I write in Education Week, which has open access this week.
In California, children from... | |
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| Running for governor of Alaska in 2006, Sarah Palin said she was against “explicit” sex education in schools but said she favors teaching about contraception and condoms, reports the LA... | |
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| A generation gap separates young teachers, who are willing to trade tenure for higher pay, and older teachers, who want to stick to the old system, writes Paul Tough on Schoolhouse Rock. | |
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| English Learner students were excelling in Diamond Lakes, a half-Hispanic school district in northern Illinois. The percentage of ELs reading proficiently had soared from 33 percent in 2004 to 71... | |
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| Sex education — comprehensive or abstinence-only — doesn’t do much to change the behavior of adolescents, writes Jonathan Zimmerman in the San Francisco Chronicle. Poverty is the... | |
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| Curly returned the missing books from last year! Mimi of Not All Flowers and Sausages is trying to bond with her new class while missing her old class. | |
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| At a Tennessee elementary school, the teachers’ lounge now houses a fitness center with two exercise bikes, a set of hand weights, and resistance bands. | |
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