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Today is January 29th and like always The Gary Null Show is here to inform you on the best news in health, healing, the environment.…
Marion Brady is a veteran educator who has long argued that public education needs a paradigm shift. Here is a new piece in which he…
Want to end the obsession with standardized testing? Opt your children out of the state tests. Ignore the threats from state and federal officials. The tests today…
New statistics show that average SAT scores countrywide have dropped to their lowest level since the college admissions exam was redesigned in 2005, continuing a…
Education reform policies that penalize struggling schools for poor standardized test scores may hinder -- not improve -- students' college readiness, if a school's instructional…
The movement to boycott standardized testing has caught the media totally by surprise. The mostly parent-led effort started with Facebook pages and neighborhood meetings has…
If it’s springtime, it must be standardized testing time in schools across the country. It’s also when the debate over whether students are inundated with…
Kids go to school to learn stuff. Right? Not exactly, according to veteran education Marion Brady, who has long argued that public education needs a…
Last week in Pennsylvania, a 13-year-old named Cayman Haib(link is external) killed himself after receiving an email from his private school that he was behind in his…