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Two Angry Teachers Protest California's Standardized Testing with Another Music Video

It's standardized testing time in California, which means the anonymous pink-slipped duo Two Angry Teachers and a Microphone are back with...

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Hundreds of Teachers Agree: Budget Cuts Are Gutting American Education

At a town hall event, teachers were honest about how budget cuts make it harder to close the achievement gap.

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Do Rich White Kids Automatically Think They're Harvard Material?

According to counselors, low-income black students need to be talked up into applying to elite schools. Well-off white students need talking down.

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Studies Support Rewards, Homework, and Traditional Teaching—Or Do They?

It's smart to be skeptical of education studies that seem to support traditional practices.

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Extra Credit: Stressed Out Studentsp

Standardized testing and college pressure: what we're reading at GOOD Education HQ

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Young Professionals Head to Spin Class to Support Afterschool Program

The nation's oldest after school program, LA's BEST, is giving folks a workout—and letting them make a difference in the lives of kids.

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Debunking Education Myths: America's Never Been Number One in Math

China getting the top spot on the PISA tests created a panic over America's fall from academic grace. But our scores are actually improving.

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Meet the Facebook App That Predicts College Admissions

Want someone to tell you if you have a shot at getting into your dream school? Now there's an app for that.

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Rahm Emanuel Slammed by Chicago High School Students

Chicago's mayoral race front-runner claims the city's highest performing schools are charters. A group of students says he didn't do his homework.

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@GOOD Asks: How Do We Identify "Good Teaching"? Answers

GOOD readers tell us their thoughts on how to identify good teaching: "'Good teaching' should make the learning curve a straight line."

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NBC Unveils Scorecard for Nation's Schools

Scorecard is a handy website that any interested parent can use to get an appraisal of the school, district, and state that's education their child.

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Why Students Shouldn't Be Mistaken for Data

There is a good little piece in this week's New York about the dangers (or at least the limitations) of data-mining when it comes to measuring how...