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Georgia: Election Official Condemns Trump’s Attacks on Election: “This Has to Stop”

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 2, 2020December 3, 2020

December 2, 2020December 3, 202004

Georgia has a Republican Governor and Republican state officials. The presidential election was conducted under the auspices of Republicans. Biden won the election by a...

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QAnon Conspiracists Target Georgia

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 2, 2020December 3, 2020

December 2, 2020December 3, 202004

Led by Trump and his base, QAnon conspiracy theorists are targeting Georgia in their effort to overturn the 2020 election. We are heading into Cloud...

Education Reform

Grantland Rice: Advice to Trump

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 2, 2020December 3, 2020

December 2, 2020December 3, 202004

I learned the famous saying by Grantland Rice, probably in junior high school: “It matters not whether you won or lost, but how you played...

Health Science

Growing Consensus that Young Children Can Safely Return to School

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 2, 2020December 3, 2020

December 2, 2020December 3, 202005

The New York Times reports that scientists are converging on a consensus that it is safe for young children to return to school. After a...

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News from the Network for Public Education

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 2, 2020December 3, 2020

December 2, 2020December 3, 202005

Thanks to the energetic leadership of Marla Kilfoyle, who is former executive director of the BATS, the Network for Public Education has developed a strong...

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NAEP 2021 Has Been Canceled. State Tests Should Also Be Canceled.

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 1, 2020December 2, 2020

December 1, 2020December 2, 2020013

The accountability hawks have decided that NAEP testing must be canceled this spring because of the pandemic, but the burdensome, useless, meaningless annual testing of...

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Paul Bonner: Testing Does Not Help Students

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 1, 2020December 2, 2020

December 1, 2020December 2, 202009

One of the blog’s readers left the following wise comment in response to the organizations who support the resumption of standardized testing as soon as...

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ProPublica: Trump and Barr Want to Restore Death by Firing Squad

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 1, 2020December 2, 2020

December 1, 2020December 2, 2020011

ProPublica has been collecting evidence of Trump’s “midnight regulations,” the last-minute rule changes he and his cruel administration want to impose before they leave office....

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Andrea Gabor: We Need Civics Education!

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 1, 2020December 2, 2020

December 1, 2020December 2, 2020011

Andrea Gabor, the Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at Baruch College of the City University of New York, writes here about the importance of civics...

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Bill Barr: No Widespread Fraud in 2020 Election

V4tgDpeDBhQGUBa7December 1, 2020December 2, 2020

December 1, 2020December 2, 2020012

The Boston Globe reports that Attorney General Bill Barr said that the Department of Justice has not discovered any widespread fraud. Whatever they have found...