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“Architects” by Alison, 23, from Boston, is the eighth of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

(Adding an update with a detailed conversation between Lisa Hansel, the author of the post, and Brian Pick, the D.C. Public Schools official in charge of implementing the Common Core. The update includes a correction about who published the Curriculum Guide, and some new things Hansel learned about DCPS Core implementation.)

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Can you imagine sharing more things with strangers besides bikes, like college textbooks, a prom dress or even a car?    

Why do officials think social media is playing a role in the increase in vandalism in United States parks?    

Can you identify the literary device used in the sentence from the article?    

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This word has appeared in two New York Times articles in the past year.    

Senator Lamar Alexander’s bill would allow states to devise curriculum standards, tests, school rating systems and consequences for schools that fail to meet state goals with far fewer guidelines.    

In her new book, veteran education journalist Sarah Carr attempts to tell the controversial story of New Orleans schools post-Hurricane Katrina from the ground up, focusing primarily on affected families and educators. "Hope Against Hope: Three Schools, One City, and the Struggle to Educate America's Children" tracks a struggling family at one school, a veteran New Orleans administrator at a second, and a young teacher at a third, alternating between their differing perspectives and experiences.

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A federal agency said it would suspend action against the University of Alabama at Birmingham, which it said did not adequately tell parents about risks to their premature infants enrolled in a research trial.    

Yiddish experts say the preferred spelling of the winning word in the widely televised Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday night has historically been kneydl, not knaidel.    

Holy Spirit School is closing, taking jobs, salaries and purpose from many veteran teachers.    

The United Negro College Fund is introducing a campaign with the tagline, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste but a wonderful thing to invest in.”    

Segun Eubanks, who on Saturday took over as chairman of the Prince George’s County Board of Education, said people have been unsure whether to offer him congratulations or condolences.

Eubanks takes the helm of a reconstituted board after months of heated debate about the future of the county’s public school system, which has shown improvements in recent years on state testing but continues to languish near the bottom of Maryland’s counties.

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Elaine J. Power, a biology and biotechnology teacher at James Hubert Blake High School in Silver Spring, Md., took strong issue with a post by Penelope Trunk that said schools should loosen up about cheating and encourage students to network to find answers. You can read the original post here, and following is Power's response:

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This student-produced and directed video was made, according to teachers, “off the cuff, from the heart and without notes.”