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Teacher Fired For Out-Of-Wedlock Pregnancy

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.12.2012

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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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Smith College Alum Believes Her School Now Full Of Lesbians

Posted 03.07.2012

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Anne Spurzem doesn't like the women attending her alma matter these days. Spurzem wrote a letter to the editor of the Sophian this week complaining...

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What Justifies $400/hour Private Tutoring?

Alex Mallory | Posted 11.08.2011

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Alex Mallory

Academic tutoring in major metropolitan areas frequently run from $200 to $700 per hour. However, more stunning than the hourly rate is the healthy market of parents willing to pay it.

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Power Struggle Between the CollegeBoard and Top Independent Schools Burdens Students With Overwhelming Workloads

Alex Mallory | Posted 10.08.2011

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Alex Mallory

The disconnect between course and standardized test content is the product of a power struggle between private high schools (and many public schools as well) and the College Board.

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Joy Resmovits

New Laws That Begin, Expand Programs That Use Public Money For Private Schooling Attract Lawsuits, Investigations

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.24.2011

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Cindra Barnard loves her district's public schools. That's why she's fighting the school board. Barnard is a resident of Douglas County, Colo., whe...

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Joy Resmovits

ACLU: Milwaukee's Voucher Program Segregates Schools

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 08.07.2011

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NEW YORK -- Milwaukee's voucher system, which allows low-income students to attend private schools using tax dollars, discriminates based on disabilit...

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Isn't Tutoring Just a Crutch?

Alex Mallory | Posted 07.11.2011

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Alex Mallory

I receive phone calls from parents who have been wrestling with the consequences of private tutoring. Their concern is that tutoring is, at best, a band-aid and, at worst, a crutch.

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Scoring Error May Have Affected Admission For 7,000 Private School Applicants

The New York Times | Posted 06.17.2011

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More than 7,000 students were incorrectly graded on the standardized test required for admission to most New York City private schools, the test compa...

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A Public School Teacher Shops Around for a Private School

Heather Wolpert-Gawron | Posted 05.25.2011

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Heather Wolpert-Gawron

I gave her a few pieces of advice, which I now pass on to you if you are entertaining the private sector for your student. It is, after all, that time of year when applications are due.

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Elitism v. Education: Are Private Schools Really Worth The $136,000 Price Tag?

Holly Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Holly Robinson

I still haven't managed to wrap my mind around how much money a private high school education costs.

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Now That School Is Out, What Did They Really Learn?

Holly Robinson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Holly Robinson

His new Montessori school gave Aidan the confidence to be creative and joyful, to ask questions and seek the answers himself.

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Everything I Need to Know I Learned After Dropping My Kids Off at School This Morning

Yisrael Campbell | Posted 11.17.2011

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Yisrael Campbell

The best thing about living in New York is that no matter what we do in Jerusalem next year we'll be able to say, "Well, at least it's not as expensive as living in New York." Take school for example.

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Don't Seal Your Child's Fate Based on a Kindergarten Test!

Ellen Galinsky | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ellen Galinsky

Children's fate should NOT be sealed by a test they take for Kindergarten admission at age four. Simply put, these tests do not provide a good indication of a child's future.

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School Praise: A Daltonian Remembered

Amanda Guinzburg | Posted 11.17.2011

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Amanda Guinzburg

Daltonians: keep your beacons burning. Gather your courage and lean on each other. Go on until you can again go forth. Do it in his name.

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Teachers Can't Vouch for McCain's "Voucher Plan"

Cheryl Lubin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Cheryl Lubin

As a high school teacher who dips into my own wallet to buy paper and pencils for students in the second largest school district in the land, I recognize the dangers of a pro-voucher McCain administration. Vouchers are not, as Obama so succinctly put it, the panacea for failing schools.

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ACORN: They Took Our Nuts!

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 05.25.2011

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Allison Kilkenny

No wonder the GOP is desperately trying to neuter ACORN before the group manages to mobilize some seriously pissed-off poor people.

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