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Trouble On The SAT

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Traditionally, learning-disabled students are given extra time, and their test results are flagged. In an era of competitive admissions and overdiagnosis of attention disorders, educators worry that high school students (and their parents) will exaggerate

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Time for Back-to-School Savings

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It feels like my kids just got out of school, maybe because June was a wash, literally, with record rainfall in parts of the Northeast.

But we’re already halfway through the summer, and my mailbox (and

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TransAmerica: Coming soon to a school near you

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“Do Children need to be protected from transgender people? Do they need to be shielded from that?” This was Fox Network’s Bill O’Reilly’s question posed to a guest commenting on a recent controversy in Oregon

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A Good Snitch Is Hard to Find

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Thirteen-year-old Shirley Chen has history third period, and there’s a test today. She’s deciding between B and C for a question on Spanish explorers when the teacher decides to take a trip to the bathroom.

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