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Better technology and high-profile school violence are driving renewed interest, but the trend also draws criticism.

“Barbie” by Scott, 18, from Phoenix, is the fourth of 12 winning poems in our fourth annual Found Poem Student Contest.    

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It's always useful to know where people are coming from, so we can thank former Florida governor Jeb Bush for making it so easy to understand where he stands on public education. He has nothing but disdain for it.

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Do we take pleasure in hearing about someone else’s pain? Do celebrities’ troubles somehow make us feel better about ourselves? Or, are tabloid scandals just entertainment?    

What are some of the costs associated with being a child star on Broadway?    

The following letter from Sandy Hayes, president of the National Council of Teachers of English to organization members, supports a moratorium on the high-stakes consequences of standardized tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten made the call for a moratorium in April because teachers haven't had enough time to properly absorb and create curriculum around the standards. A number of organizations and education activists from different sides of the education debate have supported the call, though Jeb Bush's Chiefs for Change, a group of former and current state education superintendents, opposed it. Hayes also details five ways to help improve literacy that would be better investments than more high-stakes tests.

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A kindergartner who brought a cowboy-style cap gun onto his Calvert County school bus was suspended for 10 days after showing a friend the orange-tipped toy, which he had tucked inside his backpack on his way to school, according to his family and a lawyer.

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University of Virginia astronomer John Hawley, and Steven Balbus, a former U-Va. colleague who is now at the University of Oxford, are co-winners of the Shaw Prize, which is commonly known as the "Nobels of the East."

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When Joseph Urgo became president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland three years ago, trustees considered him a devoted scholar who could steer the small, public honors college toward greater financial stability.

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The Gray administration is seeking to establish a unified enrollment lottery for the city’s traditional and charter schools in time to determine admissions for the 2014-15 school year, officials said Thursday.

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Tea party groups over the past few weeks have suddenly and successfully pressured Republican governors to reassess their support for a rare bipartisan initiative backed by President Obama to overhaul the nation’s public schools.

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