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Black students who were demonstrating an ability to perform at or above grade level were being placed in remedial courses, Foose said. Elementary school students were being excluded from screening for gifted and talented courses, losing their chance to get on the track for high-level courses through middle school.

Unlike in 2015 when Sanders introduced a similar bill, this time the legislation has multiple co-sponsors in the Senate and the House

Effort meant to inform younger generations about energy and the environment sees sentences reworked and pie charts eliminated.

A comprehensive database of events lets researchers explore potential causes.

When you don't prioritize teachers, you can't say you prioritize students

The experience of other countries suggests Betsy DeVos' voucher vision falls flat. Research led by an Indiana University professor confirms what school voucher critics have long argued: Voucher programs receive public funding yet discriminate on the basis of religion, disability status, sexual orientation and possibly other factors. Democratic political participation requires access to information, engagement in discourse and electoral activity to be effective.

While it is doubtful that US President-elect Donald Trump ever read George Orwell's 1984, Trump's cabinet choices appear to come right out of the doublethink that ruled Orwell's dystopian society. In Orwell's book, the Ministry of Plenty rationed essentials while the Ministry of Truth manufactured falsehoods. Trump's choice for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is perhaps the most extreme of Trump's cabinet nominees.

In search of answers, many of us ask our kids to "Google" something. These so-called digital natives, who've never known a world without screens, are the household's resident fact-checkers. If anyone can find the truth, we assume, they can...Don't be so sure.

Betsy and Dick DeVos come from a family with a $5.1 billion net worth. Mother Jones called the DeVos clan "the new Kochs."

The closure of ITT Tech should be a warning to other educational institutions looking to make a dime at the expense of students.