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Friday, September 27, 2013

Striking video: Parent forced out of education forum by officer

Striking video: Parent forced out of education forum by officer:

Striking video: Parent forced out of education forum by officer

Here’s a video showing what happened in Towson, Md., last week when parent Robert Small of Ellicott City interrupted Baltimore County School Superintendent Dallas Dance and complained about the Common Core State Standards.
Dance told Small his questions would be answered but Small kept talking, saying that the standards were only good enough to prepare students for community college and not highly selective colleges. He was then approached by a security guard who was an off-duty Baltimore County police officer, my colleague Lyndsey Layton reported. The security guard showed Small a badge and then pulled his arm to take him out of the 

Education Department needs writing lessons
Do you ever read a report and wonder who wrote it and why they didn’t get a good editor? I bring this up in regard to the U.S. Education Department’s Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2014-18. (By the way you have until Friday, Oct. 4, 2013, to submit comments to the department. You can listen to a video about the plan here, or read it here.) Read full article >>