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ACLU calls twerking suspensions "illegal and ill-advised"

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.latimes.com (Views: 20, Clicks: 4)  
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The suspensions meted out to 31 high school students in San Diego for being in a "twerking" video were "illegal and ill-advised" and should be reconsidered, the ACLU said in a letter to the school principal Thursday. The two-day suspensions do not fit the Education Code definition of conduct that constitutes sexual harassment, David Loy, legal director of the ACLU branch for San Diego and Imperial counties, wrote to Scripps Ranch High School Principal Ann Menna.

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Take a closer look at Common Core, TN's new classroom standards

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tennessean.com (Views: 14, Clicks: 4)  
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Williamson County has become a flashpoint in the debate over the Common Core State Standards, adopted three years ago in Tennessee but now gaining attention as they begin to be implemented. Tennessee students will be tested on the new standards beginning in spring 2015.

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Take a closer look at Common Core, TN's new classroom standards

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tennessean.com (Views: 25, Clicks: 4)  
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Williamson County has become a flashpoint in the debate over the Common Core State Standards, adopted three years ago in Tennessee but now gaining attention as they begin to be implemented. Tennessee students will be tested on the new standards beginning in spring 2015.

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Rural Schools Struggle to Prepare for Common Core’s Online Tests

Sculb sumitted ago via http://stateimpact.npr.org (Views: 57, Clicks: 5)  
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Testing in schools is moving quickly from pencil and paper to computers. That’s kind of a problem for rural schools; many don’t have the technology. But a new curriculum, called the Common Core, is pushing districts in many states – including Ohio – into the Internet era.

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Opposition to National Common Core Standards Grows in Ohio

Sculb sumitted ago via http://stateimpact.npr.org (Views: 31, Clicks: 5)  
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Michelle Maitino volunteers at her daughters’ school. She checks their homework, volunteers in in the library, and keeps in touch with their teachers. But until recently, she didn’t know that a new, national set of standards called the Common Core was coming to her daughters’ Catholic school.

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Grassroots group advocates change in state testing

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.tulsaworld.com (Views: 30, Clicks: 4)  
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A group of local educators and parents is organizing to advocate for change in Oklahoma's state testing program because they think its expansion has had harmful effects on children. The Oklahoma Coalition Against High-Stakes Testing drew about 20 people to its first public meeting, which was held Tuesday evening at Hardesty Regional Library.

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Parent trigger legislation fails in Florida Senate

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 16, Clicks: 4)  
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For the second straight year, significant parent opposition to "parent trigger" legislation in Florida has led to defeat in the legislature.

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Have standardized tests really helped kids learn more?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 31, Clicks: 4)  
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Valerie Strauss -- An award-winning principal looks at the growing resistance to standardized testing in New York and beyond.

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Moms’ group shakes up status quo on Texas’ testing regimen

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.mystatesman.com (Views: 76, Clicks: 7)  
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They were dismissed as moms, overprotective and easily manipulated moms. But those women, determined to protect their children from state testing mandates that they say had gone too far, have overwhelmed the powerful business and political forces that made Texas the capital of high-stakes testing.

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'Who allowed these big boys to go and play in education?'

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 36, Clicks: 4)  
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Valerie Strauss -- What started with eight women from Austin and suburban Houston is now a movement that spread across Texas and is challenging the standardized testing regime in the Lone Star State.

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Thousands of youths held in solitary confinement

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.mysanantonio.com (Views: 60, Clicks: 6)  
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The reasons for long "disciplinary seclusions," according to policy documents, include sexual misconduct or attempting to escape. But in some counties, "major offenses" leading to confinements of 24 hours or more also included "failure to attend school," ''disrupting the group" and "horseplay."

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States Pull Back From Common Core Standards

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.usnews.com (Views: 31, Clicks: 4)  
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Lawmakers in some states hope to halt the transition to the Common Core State Standards, even as school districts across the country are rolling them out.

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Kelso on Career Day (That 70's Show)

Skinner sumitted ago via http://www.youtube.com (Views: 43, Clicks: 20)  
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What is a statistician? Kelso has difficulty understanding what is father does for a living as a specialized statistician.

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Opt-Out of Testing? What Happens Next?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://blogs.edweek.org (Views: 28, Clicks: 4)  
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Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers -- A growing number of parents are refusing to have their children take the high stakes tests that are being given in schools across the country. They will keep their children home on test day or request the child not be tested. They view this action as a way of pushing back against over-testing of students and the anxiety some children experience in the high stakes environment.

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Common Core testing begins in NY -- but are exams ready for prime time?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://www.washingtonpost.com (Views: 37, Clicks: 4)  
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Valerie Straussz -- A testing expert explains why the new Common Core-aligned standardized tests that New York State students are starting to take are not really ready to be administered.

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