#English exam fail is no laughing matter

#English exam fail is no laughing matter

“#English exam fail is no laughing matter” Many of the questions on the recent New York state English exam for grades 3-8 duplicated ones from old tests on a practice Web site, rendering the exams worthless. It’s a giveaway that the State Education Department’s mission is now to spread ignorance about how little children are…

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#Americans are eating lots of unhealthy food – except at school, study finds

#Americans are eating lots of unhealthy food – except at school, study finds

“#Americans are eating lots of unhealthy food – except at school, study finds” Schools throughout America serve more nutrient-rich foods than restaurants, according to researchers at Tufts University. A new study conducted by the university’s Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy published findings that analyzed the diets of 40,000 adults and 21,000 children between 2003 and 2018. In the…

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#S.Africa’s UCT campus salvaging books from burned library

#S.Africa’s UCT campus salvaging books from burned library

“#S.Africa’s UCT campus salvaging books from burned library” Staring helplessly as flames from a weekend wildfire on the slopes of Table Mountain spread and razed the University of Cape Town’s library, chief librarian Ujala Satgoor was back amid the smouldering ruins on Tuesday to try and salvage what was left. One of Cape Town’s worst…

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#Letters to the Editor — April 20, 2021

#Letters to the Editor — April 20, 2021

“#Letters to the Editor — April 20, 2021” The Issue: A letter from a parent who pulled his child out of Brearley School over its race-focused curriculum. Thank you to Andrew Gutmann for saying the truth about the lessons children are learning in schools at all levels of education (“Schooled!” April 17). I was taught…

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#More union treachery from the United Federation of Teachers

#More union treachery from the United Federation of Teachers

“#More union treachery from the United Federation of Teachers” Another day, another Gotham schooling disaster.  Parents were overjoyed last week when the city Department of Education finally ­announced changes aimed at ­restoring full-time, in-person schooling in New York. This, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance reducing social-distancing ­require­ments had come a…

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#Where 2021 NYC mayoral candidates send their kids to school

#Where 2021 NYC mayoral candidates send their kids to school

“#Where 2021 NYC mayoral candidates send their kids to school” As co-chair of the mayor’s School Diversity Advisory Group, Maya Wiley advocated to end the city’s Gifted and Talented program, the specialized high-school exam and all admission “screens” — calling them racially discriminatory. “There should be no discriminatory admissions policies, period,” Wiley, the mayor’s former…

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#How Congress is pushing for schools to teach anti-Americanism

#How Congress is pushing for schools to teach anti-Americanism

“#How Congress is pushing for schools to teach anti-Americanism” Congress has been busy introducing bills supposedly to improve American civics education but really to stoke anti-American neo-racism.  In classic top-down fashion and with titles such as The Civics Learning Act, these federal initiatives would impose identity politics on all American schools with things like Critical…

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#See inside a decades-empty NYC school

#See inside a decades-empty NYC school

“#See inside a decades-empty NYC school” Usually, only ghosts and the birds get to enjoy the inside of this prime Manhattan real estate.  The East Village’s PS 64 has been empty for some two decades and the cavernous insides of the H-shaped structure at 605 E. Ninth St. have remained mostly off-limits to the public,…

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