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How Tuesday’s Twitter War Reflects The Broader Common Core Debate
Debate over the future of the Common Core academic standards lit up Twitter on Tuesday as skeptical parents, teachers and advocates called on lawmakers to #StopCommonCore and its rollout in the nation’s public schools. Full articleCharter school experiment a success: Our view
Critics — whether district superintendents or teachers' unions or school boards or a traveling band of academic doubters — snipe at the newcomers, arguing that they're siphoning students and money from traditional public schools. Full articleEducation Reformers Should Look to Indiana
If you're rich and your children are enrolled in failing public schools, you have available to you all the alternatives that money can buy—private schools, parochial schools, elite boarding schools and academies, even private tutors. Full articleStar Editorial Board opinion: To better compete, Indiana needs to embrace Common Core
Why should ordinary Hoosiers pay any attention to a simmering argument over a set of rather technical educational standards known as the Common Core?
Full articleThousands rally at Statehouse for education reform, including more school vouchers
Demand quality education for your kids was the message from a former Pacers star Monday to several thousand people who packed the Statehouse to push for more school reform.
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Instead of sitting on the sidelines I decided to make an impact
I became one of those teachers as I witnessed unfair practices, student success declining, and the stripping away of a teacher’s power to do what is best for her students.
Read moreEducation Reform Rally at the Statehouse in Indianapolis a great success
Nearly 2,000 students and parents led by StudentsFirst board member Jalen Rose were ready to shake the Statehouse during the Education Reform Rally in Indianapolis earlier this week. From the Harlem Shake to the Education Shake, Jalen helped celebrate the success of the Indiana Education Reform progress.
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