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Author: Joanna Seow

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State Teachers Union Fights “Obsessive” Standardized Testing

March 29, 2013March 29, 2013 - by Joanna Seow

New York State United Teachers, the state’s largest teachers union, launched a campaign against what it calls “obsessive” standardized testing in New York schools, reports the Syracuse Post-Standard. It placed …

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Un-Timed Math Tests Could Improve Scores For Girls

March 28, 2013March 28, 2013 - by Joanna Seow

In this article in The Atlantic, Emily Richmond discusses the effect timed math tests have on the gender gap in students’ scores. Research shows that males respond better to competitive …

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Protest And Arrests In Chicago In Wake Of Plan For School Closings

March 27, 2013March 28, 2013 - by Joanna Seow

Last week, Chicago Public Schools announced a plan to close 53 elementary schools and one high school program. This afternoon, hundreds of people (a city official estimated up to 2,000 …

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Texas House Votes to Reduce High-Stakes Testing

March 27, 2013March 28, 2013 - by Joanna Seow

The Texas House voted 145-2 yesterday to reduce high-stakes testing, statesman.com reports. House Bill 5 won preliminary passage after a daylong debate, which sees the number of end-of-course exams needed for …

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Books About Bullying Are All The Rage

March 27, 2013March 28, 2013 - by Joanna Seow

Books about bullying are flooding bookstores and libraries, the New York Times reports. This trend reflects increasing awareness about the problem, with the White House holding its first conference on bullying …

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Micah Lasher Leaves StudentsFirstNY

March 27, 2013March 28, 2013 - by Joanna Seow

Micah Lasher, who helped to launch education advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY, announced on Monday that he was leaving his position as the group’s executive director to become state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s …

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Political division as PEP shutters more schools

March 13, 2013March 13, 2013 - by Joanna Seow

At last night’s Panel for Education Policy meeting and vote on 53 proposals – a mix of phase-outs, closings and co-locations at NYC Public Schools – division among the panel members was clear.

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Students in the peer tutoring elective at Manhattan International
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Peer Tutoring Helps Diverse Students Find Common Ground

March 9, 2013May 7, 2013 - by Joanna Seow

Students at Manhattan International High School hail from 57 different countries. In the peer tutoring elective, freshmen and sophomores are paired with seniors from similar backgrounds so that the students can relate better to each other as they navigate English, their schoolwork, and New York City.

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How bad is the exclusion at charter schools?

February 18, 2013 - by Joanna Seow

Reuters put out an article last Friday about how many of America’s 6,000 charter schools are excluding students they don’t want, for instance by setting grueling admissions processes and requiring …

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NYC school bus drivers end strike

February 17, 2013 - by Joanna Seow

New York City’s main union for school bus drivers ended its monthlong strike on Friday, the New York Times reported, despite Mayor Bloomberg’s administration refusing to give in to the …

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