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Bad Teachers, Common Core Spats, and More: Wednesday's Ed News Roundup

Wednesday's ed news What does a teacher have to do to get kicked out of Los Angeles schools? A new Minnesota law lets childcare workers unionize. The head of the nation's second largest teachers union gets into a spat with several state superintendents over Common Core.  The most recent figures for K-12 spending per pupil have arrived. It's barely gone down nationwide.  A study finds giving students computers at home has no effect on their academic achievement.  Washington DC's...

Are Pearson-Taught Students Getting an Unfair Testing Advantage?

The largest education company in the world put reading passages from its new Common Core-aligned curriculum into sixth- and eighth-grade tests it administered in New York, prompting concerns that schools who used Pearson materials gained a testing advantage over those that did not. This is the first year of New York’s new Common Core-aligned statewide tests, and year two of education company Pearson’s five year, $32 million contract to provide grade 3-8 assessments in English language arts and...

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