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L.A. Times: Laws on junk food in schools fail to help poor fight obesity, study says

by Eryn Brown and Teresa WatanabeSince state laws made it harder for California elementary school kids to get their hands…

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Wired: Inside The School Silicon Valley Thinks Will Save Education

by Issie LapowskiSO YOU’RE A parent, thinking about sending your 7-year-old to this rogue startup of a school you heard…

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WST: The Bad News (Poverty) and Good News (Education), Millennial Parents

by Josh ZumbrunMuch has been written about millennials–the nickname for the generation of young people born in the 1980s and 1990s–and…

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From BBC News: Global ‘100 year gap’ in education standards

Rebecca Winthrop from the Brookings Institution notes that the differences between the developed and developing worlds in education remain stark.

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The Nation’s Report Card: New Results Show Eighth-Graders’ Knowledge of U.S. History, Geography, Civics

N ationally, eighth graders' average scores on the NAEP U.S. history, geography, and civics assessments showed no significant change in…

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KQED News: Does Common Core Ask Too Much of Kindergarten Readers?

by Katrina Schwartz S andwiched between preschool and first grade, kindergarteners often start school at very different stages of development…

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Corinthian Colleges Shuts Down, Ending Classes for 16,000 Overnight

by M. Alex Johnson I n what's believed to be the biggest shutdown in the history of higher education in…

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