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Author: Randy Turner

Randy Turner is a former teacher, newspaper reporter and editor. He is the author of Let Teachers Teach, and No Child Left Alive. He blogs at The Turner Report.

My Obamacare insurance will cost $1.98 a month. You have a problem with that?

December 31, 2013 Randy Turner ACA/Obamacare Leave a comment

At the risk of offending my readership, I have a great deal of difficulty understanding the almost rabid opposition some people have to the

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Educational data, for the most part, is worthless

November 12, 2013 Randy Turner Education, Missouri region, States Leave a comment

At a time when we are spending more and more taxpayers’ money on standardized tests and technology to enable us to take those standardized

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