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Beyond "The Big Test": A Brilliant Idea to Improve Schools

Dan Brown | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living

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If a brilliant idea slapped us in the face for how to help public school students achieve more, would we recognize it? Today, schools' everyday funct...

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A Spooky Halloween Poem (By an Eighth Grader!)

Dan Brown | Posted 10.31.2007 | Living

Read More: Education, Assessment, Harlem, Standardized Testing, High-Stakes Testing, Halloween, Middle School, Poetry, Poem, New York City, Arts Education, Living News
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Your breathing becomes rapid but you don't dare move / It rests on your shoulder no longer than a sec / You close your eyes in prayer / Then it locks around your neck!

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