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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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Standardized education: moving America to the right

November 7, 2011 City Mom Education, Ideas, Youth issues Leave a comment

Listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, one would think that American schools are bastions of the hard left, education factories that churn out

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Evaluating teachers based on students’ test scores is harmful. Here’s why.

October 6, 2011 City Mom Education 4 comments

I taught sixth grade in a local public middle school for six years.  It was a struggling, blue-collar district.  My students’ parents did not

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