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  • School SUED for Ban of Conservative Club that Criticized National Anthem Protest

    School SUED for Ban of Conservative Club that Criticized National Anthem Protest0

    Five Minnesota high students and their parents are suing one of the state’s most prestigious schools. Students at Edina High School charge that the school violated their free-speech rights and wrongfully terminated their conservative club, according to a complaint filed in Minnesota federal district court on Thursday. The lawsuit stems from a Veterans Day protest

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  • School Spending: Higher Than You Might Think

    School Spending: Higher Than You Might Think0

    • August 19, 2015

    “Based on your best guess, what is the average amount of money spent each year for a child in public schools in your local school district?” That’s a question recently asked of thousands of adults in America. Unfortunately, their answers suggest that many don’t have a clue how much money the country spends on education.

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  • School Security Is Now a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry. Is There a Better Way to Protect Children?

    School Security Is Now a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry. Is There a Better Way to Protect Children?0

    U.S. taxpayers spend nearly $700 billion each year on K-12 public schooling and that eye-popping sum shows no sign of slowing. In fact, as more non-academic programs get adopted in schools across the country, the price-tag for mass schooling continues to swell even as achievement lags.   One ballooning school expenditure is the vast amount

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  • School Reform is Missing a Key Ingredient

    School Reform is Missing a Key Ingredient0

    The last several decades have seen Americans wake up to the fact that their schools are failing. Nowhere is this more apparent than in student performance on national and international tests. Such results have caused American educators and policy makers to flounder around trying to find a way to set American students back on track;

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  • School Kids Don’t Need ‘Wiggle Chairs.’ They Need a Real Recess.

    School Kids Don’t Need ‘Wiggle Chairs.’ They Need a Real Recess.0

    It isn’t easy being a kid these days: the school day has changed a great deal since the current generation of grade school kids’ parents were in school. With a greater emphasis on school work and testing, something in the school day had to disappear to make way for the focus on more academic pursuits

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  • School Grades Enter the ‘Everyone-Gets-a-Trophy’ World

    School Grades Enter the ‘Everyone-Gets-a-Trophy’ World1

    Summer has long been the season for local community sports and contests. In recent years, these contests have been particularly marked by the everyone-gets-a-trophy mentality where each individual gets recognition and a prize for their time and effort. For better or worse, that mentality may now be expanding beyond the summer community center and into

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