Occupy Wall Street found its way from the Empire State to the Empire State of the South on October 7 when several hundred people, alerted by a Facebook event page, converged on Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta. Inspired by Occupy Wall Street, they held a General Assembly meeting where they...

Overemphasis on standardized testing turns schools into pressure cookers, forcing students, teachers, and administrators to use any means at their disposal to attain passing scores on multiple-choice tests. This was made tragically clear by the release in July of an 800-page report on cheating on the Criterion Referenced...