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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Companies Value Internships, So Why Don't They Hire Interns?
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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Infographic: Understanding Social Enterprise
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Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Is it Time to 'Occupy Teach For America'?
Yes or no? We've teamed up with the folks over at Waiting for Superman to sponsor a debate: Should student test scores be used to evaluate...
A week ago, the Department of Education announced that as part of its Race to the Top initiative, it had set aside $350 million for states to...
It’s what you’ve done, not how you scored.
Will new get-tough measures for evaluating high school performance really improve schools?
We talk a lot on this blog about whether our standardized test-based curriculum is detrimental to our students becoming creative thinkers. If you...
Morning Roundup: From The New York Times: U.S. Asks Educators to Reinvent Student Tests, and How They Are Given Could the bubble be on the way...
How bureaucracy in education is failing our children, one standardized test at a time.
This story of a student who sits till 6:30 p.m. trying to do her best on the state test is Exhibit A of what's wrong with high-stakes exams.
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The New York City Department of Education maintains a list of words and topics prohibited from appearing on standardized tests.
A few weeks back, I posed a question-"Is EnergyStar at the risk of becoming EnergyIrrelevant?" - that's likely on the minds of consumers who are...
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Teachers want less emphasis on testing and more on mastering skills and high-level concepts.
The results of a humongous survey of 40,000 school teachers, developed and funded jointly by USA Today, Scholastic, and the Bill & Melinda Gates...
