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Diane Ravitch says No Child Left Behind to blame for Atlanta cheating scandal

By | 07.07.11 | 10:57 am

In the fallout over the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, in which 178 teachers and principals from 44 schools were implicated in altering student answers on state standardized tests, education historian and critic of school testing Diane Ravitch explained in an interview with CBS News what she believes motivates educators More…

Sotomayor’s ‘Controversial’ Comments Backed Up By Academic Research

By | 05.26.09 | 3:15 pm

One of the things that most infuriates conservative commentators like Michelle Malkin and Stuart Taylor about Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is that in delivering a 2002 speech at UC-Berkeley, the judge said that “our experiences as women and people of color affect our decisions” and that “I More…