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Education Standards Slated to Become More Flexible in Mass.

Daily operations and classroom lessons will not feel different to students returning to Massachusetts schools this fall when the No Child Left Behind waiver goes into effect.

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Third-Graders Asked to Reveal Secret on New Jersey Standardized Test

New Jersey education officials say they will no longer use a standardized test question that asked third-graders to reveal a secret and write about why it was difficult to keep.

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Aberdeen (Miss.) Public School District Faces State Takeover

Mississippi state education officials who already are overseeing seven struggling public school districts are considering taking over an eighth one despite limited resources.

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Opinion: Accelerated Education, Taken to the nth Degree

The big news out of New York City is that the admissions test for the city’s gifted kindergarten programs is about to get tougher.

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Opinion: STEM Education Efforts are Showing Results in Delaware

We applaud The News Journal’s coverage of movements engaging students in STEM studies to prepare for life’s work and citizenship in Delaware. 

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New York City Schools Want to Ban 'Loaded Words' from Tests

Divorce. Dinosaurs, Birthdays. Religion. Halloween. Christmas. Television. These are a few of the 50-plus words and references the New York City Department of Education is hoping to ban from the city’s standardized tests.

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Coming to Terms With Five New Realities

The near term holds some big challenges for schools to navigate.

Avoid Pitfalls of Predictive Analysis

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Student Math Test Scores Rise by Almost 50 Percent

With the help of School Improvement Network's PD 360, Humansville R-VI School District in Missouri is experiencing an explosion in student achievement as math test scores have increased by almost half.

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Fla. Department of Education Releases First-ever School Rankings

The state Department of Education today released a best-to-worst ranking of Florida's 3,078 public schools - and a number of Palm Beach County schools made it to the top of the lists.

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