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Music for Education Picking Up STEAM

Education has become an experience, for a great number of students, that embodies a doctor’s visit and less like a…

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Has the Final Bell Rung on Jeb Bush and His Education Plan?

From POLITICO Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush offered a sweeping school choice-centric education plan Monday with proposals that would allow…

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Will the Power Ever Come on for Detroit Public Schools?

From U.S. Uncut - Detroit’s students are trying to learn while breathing in black mold and sitting in classrooms filled with…

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How Would da Vinci Fare in a Common Core World?

an op-ed on the Common Core State Standards, The Real "Common Core" of Teaching, that garnered a lot of attention…

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Value-Added Assessments Treat Teachers Like Cattle

School districts are under pressure from the federal government, foundations, and states to include value-added assessment as a part of…

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CNN: One threat to L.A. and New York school districts, two very different responses

By Greg Botelho (CNN) The United States' two biggest school districts get the same threat. One -- in Los Angeles…

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U.S. News: State Education Funding Hasn’t Recovered from Recession

The Great Recession may be officially over, but state spending on K-12 education hasn't recovered.

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NBC News: Obama Signs Education Law Rewrite; Power Shifts to States

With his signature Thursday, President Barack Obama is setting the nation's public schools on a sweeping new course of accountability…

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Education World: TechCHAT: Talking Hour of Code with a UCF Education Professor

Dr. Megan Nickels is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the College of Education and Human Performance at the…

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