Randi Weingarten: Teaching and Learning Over Testing

Randi Weingarten President, American Federation of Teachers www.huffingtonpost.com I’m often asked how I can be in favor of the Common Core State Standards while opposing the standardized-testing fixation in education and other failed market-based education strategies. The question is as … Continue reading

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Carol Burris: Student privacy concerns grow over ‘data in a cloud’

Original article was posted in the Washington Post by Valarie Strauss Privacy concerns have been growing over a $100 million student database – largely funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and operated by a  nonprofit organization, inBloom Inc. — … Continue reading

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