A blow-by-blow account of fight over charter school bill - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

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A blow-by-blow account of fight over charter school bill

by Valerie Strauss

This was written by Mike Sayer, senior organizer and training coordinator for Southern Echo, Inc ., in Jackson, Mississippi. Southern Echo is a grassroots leadership education, training and development organization that is based in Jackson and works with grassroots communities and organizations throughout Mississippi as well as in the South and Southwest to, among other things, build and sustain a quality, first rate education accessible to all families regardless of race, ethnicity, class, gender, national origin, status, disability or language.
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A modern history lesson (or, there’s nothing new under the sun)

by Valerie Strauss

This was written by Fred Smith, a retired Board of Education senior analyst, worked for the city public school system in test research and development. This first appeared on the City Limits website .

By Fred Smith
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50-plus banned words on standardized tests

by Valerie Strauss

You might expect a standardized test to avoid using profane words but, it turns out, other words are banned too and they may surprise you: dinosaur and Halloween, rock ‘n roll and rap music, just to name a few.
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