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There has been a lot of recent discussion on the racial impact of school choice. Critics have used research reports to corroborate their claims that school choice increases racial segregation. While these claims have a factual basis, they are in dire need of context. School choice can increase racial segregation, but not for reasons anyone
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A friend of mine recently relayed the story of how his daughter came home from kindergarten saying “excuse you” to anyone who sneezed. “I think you mean ‘God bless you,’” he gently prompted her. “No, my teacher says to say ‘excuse you’ when someone sneezes,” came her response. According to news out of Pennsylvania, sneezing
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Winter is coming, and colder temperatures mean that our coats and scarves have been pulled from their summer resting places and put to good use once more. But if you’re a parent in the United Kingdom, you might want to think twice before you send your kids off to school in their favorite winter coats.
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We talk a lot these days about how many students are doing poorly in school. For example, when it comes to 8th graders, the Nation’s Report Card tells us that: Only 1 in 3 are proficient in math 1 in 3 are proficient in reading 1 in 4 are proficient in civics 1 in 5
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This week, an impressive list of scholars across the nation published a letter opposing the new framework for the College Board’s Advanced Placement (AP) exam in U.S. History. You can read the full letter here. As you may know, millions of U.S. high school students take an AP U.S. History course and exam each year in
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In my years as a music teacher, I learned one very important thing. One could start teaching a child an instrument when they entered kindergarten, but the going would often be slow and the lessons a strain for both teacher and student. Once a child hit age seven, however, things began clicking at a much
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