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Retired D.C. teacher says he was thrown out of ed data summit - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Retired D.C. teacher says he was thrown out of ed data summit - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Retired D.C. teacher says he was thrown out of ed data summit

A retired D.C. teacher who has written critically about Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Michelle Rhee said security guards escorted him out of an education data summit where the two were speaking on Wednesday.

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New problems found in 4th-grade Virginia history textbook

This was written by Brendan Wolfe, associate editor of Encyclopedia Virginia, a project of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities that is the first online reference work about the Commonwealth that aggregates in a single resource information on Virginia history, business, politics, geography, arts, religion, culture, and folklife.

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