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Public School Standardized Testing: Enough Is Enough for New York State Kids

Cynthia Wachtell | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: High-Stakes Testing, Standardized Testing, Pearson, New York Public School, Private Schools, Field-Testing, Field Tests, Pineapple Question, Education News

For public school children, it has been a long spring, shaped far too much by mandated testing. And the testing is not over.

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Activists Targeting U.S. Schools, Backed By Big Bucks

Reuters | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Walton Family Foundation, Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Education, School Vouchers, Michelle Rhee, Washington Dc Schools, Education Policy, Private Schools, Studentsfirst, Reuters, Broad Foundation, School Choice, Education Reform, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, Michael Bloomberg, DC Public Schools, Parents, Education News

By Stephanie Simon May 15 (Reuters) - During her tumultuous three years at the head of the Washington D.C. public schools, Michelle Rh...

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More Wealthy Parents Seeking Help Paying For Grade School

The Huffington Post | Emily Cohn | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: K-12 Education, Financial Aid K-12, Rising Tuition Costs, Student Debt, Private Schools, Paying for Education, Financial Aid, Nyc Private Schools, Student Loans, Money News

Move over college students -- you're not the only ones seeking financial aid to pay for tuition. More parents are applying for loans and other hel...

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Home School Fever

Dennis Danziger | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Private Schools, Teachers, Home Schooling, Education News

We Americans are headed in opposite and opposing directions; instead of coming together we're becoming once again a nation of tribal loyalties.

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They Want to Privatize the World

David Macaray | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: California Schools, Charter Schools, Private Schools, Bottled Water, Politics News

One of the biggest con games going on right now is the sustained attack on the U.S. public school system. It's being perpetrated by predatory entrepr...

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Teacher Fired For Out-Of-Wedlock Pregnancy

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Video, Unwed Pregnancy, Wedlock, Private Schools, Teacher Fired for Unwed Pregnancy, Private School, Teacher Fired, Private Religious School, Slidepollajax, Out of Wedlock, Education News

Cathy Samford, a 29-year-old former science teacher and volleyball coach at Heritage Christian Academy in Rockwall, Texas, was fired last fall after t...

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Maybe Private School Is Cheaper Than Ritalin

Holly Robinson | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Montessori, Mental Health, Adhd, Boys, Parenting, Hyperactivity, Adderall, Education, Stimulants, Psychotropic Medications, Add, School Adjustment, Charter Schools, Private Schools, School Choice, Ritalin, Child Psychiatry, Education News

Your child needs to be learning in a place that will support his strengths rather than view him as a problem. For children who are bright or anxious, active or inattentive, simply changing how and where they learn can make all the difference.

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High Stakes Interviews: Sixth Grade

Jessica Gottlieb | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Middle School, Schools, Los Angeles Schools, Admissions Interviews, Middle School Admissions, School Admissions, Private School Admissions, Private Schools, Parents, Parents News

Interviewing for sixth grade admissions in Los Angeles is as high stakes an interview as any in my lifetime.

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Bishop Slams Public Schools: Hitler And Mussolini 'Would Love Our System'

Posted 01.24.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Video, American Civil Liberties Union, School Vouchers, Public Money for Private Schools, Private Schools, Bishop Joseph Mcfadden, School Voucher Programs, Public Dollars for Private Schools, School Choice, Joseph Mcfadden, Religious Schools, Education Reform, School Choice Programs, Roman Catholic Schools, Catholic Schools, Education News

Religious leaders in Philadelphia are frustrated with the battle over school choice, to the extent that Harrisburg Bishop Joseph McFadden says fascist...

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Baad, Baad Teecherz

Dennis Danziger | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: LA Times, Public Schools, Columbia University, Harvard University, Private Schools, Nicholas Kristof, Teachers, NY Times, Waiting for Superman, The Value of Teachers, Education News

Sad that Nicholas Kristof is joining a pool of writers who are creating a new American stereotype: the bad teacher.

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Holly Springs-Hickory Flat, GA: Building America's Superschool

hollysprings.patch.com | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Hickory Flat Ga, Private Schools, Preschools, Dispatches: The Changing American Dream, School Choice, Georgia, Holly Springs Ga, Home News

"When you add in private schools and preschools, it makes your community more appealing."...

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Private School Children Learn Skills to Manage in a Complex World

Ramaa Reddy Raghavan | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Mindfulness Meditation, Education, Social and Emotional Learning, Mindup, Scholastic, Mindfulness, Private Schools, Education News

Founded in 1893, Brown School is one of the few private schools to integrate mindfulness -- the practice of cultivating awareness, attention, acceptance and non-judgement -- into its entire school curriculum.

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Refugee Reeducation: Teens Find New Home At The Global Village School

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Video, Education, Civil War, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Private Schools, War, Decatur, Refugees, Women's Education, Global Village School, Impact News

Bertha Nibigira, a Burundi student, says she had never read a book before being enrolling at Decatur, Georgia's Global Village School . Nibigira is...

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WATCH: State Crafts Dropout Remedy Through School Choice

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Pbs, Video, Indiana Public Schools, Indiana Private Schools, Pbs Newshour, Indiana School Choice, Education, School Vouchers, Private Schools, John Tulenko, School Choice, Education Reform, Public Education, Indiana School Vouchers, Education News

In May, When Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels signed into law the creation of a voucher program that would allow families to use taxpayer money to send thei...

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Mindful Awareness Practices in Private Schools

Ramaa Reddy Raghavan | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Mindfulness Meditation, Education, Mindfulness, Kaiser Family Foundation, Private Schools, Education News

In the fall of 2010 Trinity School in Manhattan presented its theme for the week's lower school chapel.

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Indiana Voucher Program Leads To Reverse Transfers

Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Public Schools, Education, Video, Denver School Vouchers, School Vouchers, Private Schools, Mitch Daniels, Indiana Public Schools, Indiana Private Schools, Education Reform, Schools, Indiana School Vouchers, Education News

Indiana's new school voucher law has led some Hoosier parents to take their students out of private schools and place them in public schools for a yea...

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Mother Lies To School, Says Daughter's Rival Has Sex Disease

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Prestigious Schools, Application Fraud, Application Lies, Stds, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Private Schools, School Applications, Prestigious Private Schools, Video, Education News

Forget spending days on an application essays and laboring over character references. One mother from Queenstown, New Zealand has admitted to taking d...

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Why I Send My Children to Public Schools

Robert Niles | Posted 12.09.2011

Read More: School Reform, Public Schools, Public Education, Charter Schools, Private Schools, Education News

I don't believe in the people who are attacking our public schools. Sending my children to public schools is the ultimate sign of support, and helps keep me more deeply involved in a precious public resource that needs, and deserves, our support.

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Lawmakers Find Extra Money For Private Schools As Public Schools See Cuts

| Bill Lueders | Posted 11.21.2011

This piece comes to us courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. This is the first of a three-part series by Bill Lueders exam...

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Indiana Vouchers Prompt Thousands To Go Private As Public Schools Plead For Students To Stay

AP | By TOM COYNE | Posted 10.28.2011

Read More: Public Schools, School Vouchers, Indiana, Private Schools, Mitch Daniels, School-Voucher-System, Education Reform, Indiana Voucher Program, Catholic Schools, Indiana School Vouchers, Indiana Schools, Education News

SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Weeks after Indiana began the nation's broadest school voucher program, thousands of students have transferred from public to priv...

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Back To School: Emanuel, Brizard Head Door To Door

Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Longer School Day, Education, Cps Longer School Day, Public Education Reform, Chicago Public Schools, Charter Schools, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Education, Private Schools, Teachers Unions, Chicago Teachers Union, Jean-Claude Brizard, Back to School, Chicago News

Apparently heeding their own advice, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the city's public schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard took to the streets Tuesday and ...

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School Vouchers: No Clear Advantage in Academic Achievement

Jack Jennings | Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Florida, Academic Achievement, Equity, Private Schools, Milwaukee-Wisconsin, Washington DC, Cleveland-Ohio, Center on Education Policy, Tuition Vouchers, Low-Income Students, School Vouchers, Education News

If vouchers don't lead to higher achievement for low-income students -- and test scores suggest they do not -- then that removes a major educational rationale for voucher programs.

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Victory For Veterans: G.I. Bill Legislation Clears Final Hurdle

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: House, GI Bill, Schumer, Senate, Miller, College, Private Schools, Student Veterans, Higher Education, Post-9/11 Gi Bill, Restoring g.i. Bill Fairness Act, Veterans, College News

NEW YORK -- Earlier today, tens of thousands of student veterans attending private colleges on the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill cleared the final hurdle in an ...

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Manners and Mothers-in-Law-From-Hell

Random Thinker | Posted 01.14.2012

Read More: Marriage, Schools, Mother in Law, Children, Private Schools, Manners, UK News

So where did your friends stand on the mother-in-law from hell (MILFH) email? I'm a teacher (no I'm not about to whinge), merely to ponder about the ...

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There's Plenty of Room for Another $40,000 per Year Private School

Alex Mallory | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: College Admissions, College, Private Schools, Sat, High School, Act, New York City Private Schools, New York, Education News

The rich and powerful do not enjoy rejection, yet well-to-do New York City families continue to submit themselves to the always unpleasant, often humbling independent school admission gauntlet in record numbers. Why?

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