Schools and Values

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Whoops. A State Department of Education event designed to recruit parents into the new Common Core agenda in schools has instead triggered a...

Protesters against high-stakes testing and its relationship to Common Core State Standards gathered in Rochester last Wednesday. What was th...

Re: Failing schools put on notice After underfunding the state’s most impoverished schools and pushing through a high-stakes testing agend...

Ten years ago No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became law. Initiated by the Bush administration but passed with overwhelming bipartisan Congressi...

    The mother from School #6 who came to the microphone at Saturday's superintendent selection forum was angry. She was angry that Scho...

A letter to the NY Times editor re:  11-29-11 NYT article by Dr. Fred Marshall, University of Rochester Dear Sir/Madam- I have re-writ...