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Thursday, February 13, 2014

2-13-14 @ The Answer Sheet

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Why boy born without complete brain has to take 2014 standardized test
Michael is a boy born with a brain stem but not a complete brain with cognitive ability. He can hear, but he can’t see or talk or understand basic information. Yet last year, when he was 9, he had to take an alternative version of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test — and he is going […]    


‘Ice is back and the road won’t listen’ — school declares snow day by rap video
“Ice is back and the road won’t listen,” raps Michael Ulku-Steiner, the head of private Durham Academy in North Carolina, and Lee Hark, assistant head of school, as they announce a snow day for Thursday to the tune of “Ice, Ice, Baby,” by Vanilla Ice. Here’s the video:      


At least 44 school shootings since Newtown — new analysis
There have been at least 44 school shootings on K-12 or college campuses in 24 states — an average of more than three a month — since the deadly 2012 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., according to a new analysis. Twenty-eight people have died and 37 have been injured. Twenty children […]    


2-12-14 @ The Answer Sheet
The Answer Sheet: Principal: Time to hold NY education leaders accountable for Core messNew York Principal Carol Burris has chronicled the flawed implementation of school reform and the Common Core State Standards across the state for some time (here, and here and here and here, for example), and, in the following post, she tells us more. Burris, who leads South Side High School, was named New Yor