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Six on Schools: The Billionaires Behind TFA’s Drive for Power; Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum; Why aren't kids being taught to read?; City may have to pay out $1.7B over biased teaching exam; The Business of Charter Schools: Real Estate!!!!; Science Site “Legends Of Learning” Is Now Really Free;

Mercedes Schneider: The Billionaires Behind TFA’s Drive for Power | Diane Ravitch's blog

https://dianeravitch.net/2018/09/23/mercedes-schneider-the-billionaires-behind-tfas-drive-for-power/

Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum

"The Texas State Board of Education voted on Friday to keep a social studies requirement that high school students learn that “Arab rejection of the State of Israel has led to ongoing conflict” in the section on “the rise of independence movements in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia and reasons for ongoing conflicts,” the Dallas Morning News reported.

Volunteer work groups made recommendations to the board, which each year discusses and debates new classroom standards for the 5.4 million schoolchildren in Texas. Its members, now five Democrats and 10 Republicans, are elected to four-year terms and represent specific geographic areas of the state, the newspaper reported."

High school textbooks in Texas blame Arab world for conflict with Israel

Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum

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Stephen Krashen: Brief comments on Hard Words (Why aren't kids being taught to read?)

Brief comments on Hard Words (Why aren't kids being taught to read?)

Brief comments on Hard Words (Why aren't kids being taught to read?) S. Krashen. Sept 16, 2018 Hard Words (https://tinyurl.com/ybgv4742) champions systematic intensive phonics, teac...

The Business of Charter Schools: Real Estate!!!! | Diane Ravitch's blog

https://dianeravitch.net/2018/09/23/the-business-of-charter-schools-real-estate/

It Appears That The Exceptional Science Site “Legends Of Learning” Is Now Really Free

https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2018/09/21/it-appears-that-the-exceptional-science-site-legends-of-learning-is-now-really-free/

City may have to pay out $1.7B over biased teaching exam

https://nypost.com/2018/09/19/city-may-have-to-pay-out-1-7b-over-biased-teaching-exam/