The increasing role of standardized testing in U.S. classrooms is triggering pockets of rebellion across the country from school officials, teachers and parents who say the system is stifling teaching and learning.
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5/16/2012
Gov. Jan Brewer on Monday vetoed a bill that would have enacted sweeping changes to the state's online-education system.
5/16/2012
A Washington County civil court trial involving middle-school bullying ended in favor of the Beaverton (Wash.) School District last week.
5/16/2012
Gov. Rick Snyder today signed legislation to increase the number of cyber charter schools and opened up eligibility for dual enrollment programs.
5/16/2012
After conceding that poor communication with teachers could have contributed to an unprecedented drop in writing scores statewide, the Florida state Board of Education voted to lower the passing mark for the test.
5/16/2012
Lawyers for the state Department of Education began their defense in a federal special-education lawsuit brought by the Chester Upland (Penn.) School District, saying that no law had been violated and that the district had done too little to solve its own problems.
5/16/2012
Daily operations and classroom lessons will not feel different to students returning to Massachusetts schools this fall when the No Child Left Behind waiver goes into effect.
5/16/2012
The Iowa City school board has set aside plans to redraw some school boundaries, a process that had been debated the past couple of months.
5/15/2012
Slammed into lockers, isolated in darkened schoolrooms, vulgar language by a teacher – it was just another day at school for special needs student Alex Williams.
5/15/2012
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy signed the education reform bill into law during a formal ceremony.
5/14/2012
At East Stroudsburg School District, business manager Patricia Bader oversees a reserve fund balance — one of the largest among the 500 school districts in Pennsylvania.
5/14/2012
It's graduation season, and new research offers yet another reason to congratulate someone who has completed at least nine years of education: They're likely to live longer.
5/14/2012
Higley Unified School District officials were able to increase this year's budget by close to $2 million mainly because of the largest student growth the district has had in years.
5/14/2012
About 9,000 Cincinnati Public School students are seeing an anti-bullying documentary that stirred debate over its initial rating restricting children under 17 from seeing it without an adult.
5/14/2012
If the School Reform Commission and Chief Recovery Officer Thomas Knudsen have their way, we may witness the end of public education in Philadelphia.
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