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The Government Accounting Office says cheating on standardized tests used for accountability purposes is likely to have happened in 40 states. […]
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Although duties of full-time subs mirror those of probationary teachers, the subs can’t count their substitute teaching experience toward tenure as teachers under Illinois law. […]
Look northeast tonight through Wednesday: Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter will be in close proximity for the next few days near the northeast horizon just after sunset. […]
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Baltimore City and Prince George’s County may have misspent more than half a million dollars in federal grant money on personal items such as dinner cruises and makeover days. […]
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We transcribe a video resignation letter from a teacher in north-suburban Chicago, who says she is quitting with a sad, heavy heart, since everything she “loved about teaching is extinct.” […]
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Chicago Public Schools shut down 49 public school programs, most of them on the city’s south and west sides. In the end, protests did little to prevent neighborhood schools from being closed. […]
Read More… from With today's vote, 49 public schools will close in Chicago
Voxitatis joins so many voices in asking the Philadelphia Public Schools not to delete music and the fine arts from students’ daily lives at school. […]
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Like many of you, I have been extremely saddened to watch reports about the killer tornado Monday afternoon, which reduced buildings in Moore, Okla., to “sticks and bricks.” […]
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The debate rages on over how high the stakes should be for standardized tests being developed to assess students’ progress with respect to the Common Core. […]
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The application for a virtual charter school that might open in suburban Chicago was denied by 18 separate school districts, and the company will have to appeal each decision individually. […]
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