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Outsourcing Education: Does It Matter If Someone in India Corrected Your College Paper?

That paper you think was corrected by a professor actually might have been marked up by someone halfway across the globe.

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When Will Teach for America Teachers Shake the "Savior" Stereotype?

Ohio governor John Kasich offensively calls TFA corps members the "calvary". What gives with the persistent stereotype?

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Your Favorite Public Education Reformer Probably Went to Private School

Many of today's prominent education reformers attended private school. Their policies for public schools are a far cry from that experience.

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Mock Slave Auctions: How Not to Teach Kids About America's History

When it come to educating kids about slavery, teachers should think twice about the appropriateness of their hands on learning activities.

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On the Anniversary of Dr. King's Assassination, Stand Up For Economic Equality

King worked for both racial and economic equality, and died while in the middle of a fight for public employees' right to collectively bargain.

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Ohio Teacher Blocks Door to Prevent Student Walkout

The nationwide student walkout protesting education cuts and attacks on teachers is happening, but some teachers and students are trying to block it.

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The Nine States Where Evolution Education Is in Trouble

Add Tennessee to the list of states currently fighting against the marriage of science and religion.

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A Month Later, "Homeless Man with a Golden Voice" Is Abandoned by His Corporate Friends

Less than two months after being initially discovered, the homeless man with the radio voice has been abandoned by his benefactors.

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Feast Your Eyes: The Concrete Corn Field of Dublin, Ohio

On the landscaped lawns of a corporate office park in Ohio, 109 human-sized concrete ears of corn memorialize the region's lost agricultural heritage.

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Food for Thinkers: A Few Good Menus

What menus can tell us about trends in design, culinary, economic, and urban history—and even the rise and fall of fish populations.

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California Gets Wisconsin and Ohio's Rail Money

Wisconsin and Ohio don't want their money for fast, efficient transportation? Maybe that's better for the future of high-speed rail anyway.

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McDonald's Owner Tells Employees to Elect the "Right People" McDonald's Voter Intimidation in Canton, Ohio

A McDonald's franchise in Canton, Ohio, is telling employees, in a letter included with their paychecks, to elect "the right people."

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Driving Rain

This is what driving through the worst Midwestern storm in 70 years looks like.