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2 months ago | 
businessandamerica.com | Jack Schneider
At her confirmation hearing last week, Linda McMahon, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of education, walked a thin line. On the one hand, she needed to assure Congress and the American people that she was fit for a cabinet-level position.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Jessica May Tang |Jack Schneider
Share In 1993, the Massachusetts Education Reform Act introduced statewide standardized testing. Nine years later, No Child Left Behind expanded testing requirements to all states, raising the stakes for schools and districts. Inadequate exam results, including those on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, would lead to stiff consequences like school closures and district takeovers. The overall goal was universal proficiency within 12 years.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jessica May Tang |Jack Schneider
In 1993, the Massachusetts Education Reform Act introduced statewide standardized testing. Nine years later, No Child Left Behind expanded testing requirements to all states, raising the stakes for schools and districts. Inadequate exam results, including those on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, would lead to stiff consequences like school closures and district takeovers. The overall goal was universal proficiency within 12 years.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
msn.com | Jennifer Berkshire |Jack Schneider
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May 16, 2024 | 
cambridge.org | A.J. Angulo |Jack Schneider
Educators have long overheard students give each other advice about sex. It’s part of the background chatter that happens before class starts, in the hallway between classes, or during lunch in the cafeteria. “Don’t worry,” one student was overheard saying in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Apr 18, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Jack Schneider |Jennifer Berkshire |Michael Waters |Carrie Courogen
Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider. New Press, $24.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-62097-854-2The “very existence of public schools” is being threatened, according to this essential overview of recent right-wing attacks on the teaching of material concerning race, gender identity, and sexuality.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jennifer Berkshire |Jack Schneider |Judith Butler |Esther Duflo
A useful book for all who believe in American democracy. A history of the nation’s cultural conflicts over public education and a call to action in our current one. “Today’s efforts to root out ‘woke’ indoctrination from schools are also a warmed-over version of a panic we’ve seen before,” write Berkshire and Schneider, co-authors of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, who draw a line from the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial to the present day.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
wbur.org | Jack Schneider
Politics these days are more of a duel than a deliberation. Take, for instance, the emerging battle over the proposed removal of the requirement that Massachusetts students earn a passing score on MCAS to receive a high school diploma. Last fall, the Massachusetts Teachers Association led a signature collection effort to place the issue on the ballot next November. And since then, battle lines have been drawn.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
jamanetwork.com | Chandy C John |Ruth Namazzi |Makerere College |Jack Schneider
Azithromycin for Prevention of Mortality in African Children: More Data, More Questions Mass Azithromycin Distribution to Prevent Child Mortality Catherine E. Oldenburg, ScD; Mamadou Ouattara, MD; Mamadou Bountogo, MD; Valentin Boudo, MS; Thierry Ouedraogo, PhD; Guillaume Compaoré, MD; Clarisse Dah, MD; Alphonse Zakane, MS; Boubacar Coulibaly, PhD; Cheik Bagagnan, MS; Huiyu Hu, MSPH; Kieran S. O’Brien, PhD; Fanice Nyatigo, BS; Jeremy D.
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Feb 6, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Jennifer Berkshire |Jack Schneider
Society / For GOP lawmakers who view public education as a quasi-socialist project, the gaping hole in state budgets left by subsidizing private school tuition is a feature, not a bug. Bait-and-switch is an old retail tactic. You lure customers in with promises of a deep discount, only to inform them that the deal has a catch. The real price tag, it turns out, is quite a bit more.
