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• Thousands of high school students skip Colorado state tests
• Can the Feds Keep High-Poverty Schools From Being Dumping Grounds for Bad Teachers?
• Does Stretching Increase Flexibility?

Thousands of high school students skip Colorado state tests Posted: 14 Nov 2014 03:11 PM PST By Daniel Wallis DENVER (Reuters) - Thousands of Denver-area high school students skipped state-mandated science and social studies tests this week and some staged street protests in the latest dispute to hit Colorado education since a flare-up over history curricula. Nearly 1,900 high school seniors in Douglas County failed to take the newly introduced Colorado Measures of Academic Success tests, while about 1,500 pupils missed them in each of two other districts, Boulder Valley and Cherry Creek, media reports said. ...

Can the Feds Keep High-Poverty Schools From Being Dumping Grounds for Bad Teachers? Posted: 14 Nov 2014 01:59 PM PST For education activists, it's exhibit A in the case proving unequal education: a disproportionate number of subpar teachers are working at chronically failing schools in poor, largely minority communities.

Does Stretching Increase Flexibility? Posted: 14 Nov 2014 07:01 AM PST Many people think stretching is essential to improving flexibility. Runners stretch their hamstrings before hitting the pavement, gymnasts do hyper-splits during their warm-ups and yogis wind down their practice with some forward bends. But does stretching really prevent tight hamstrings and stiff shoulders? "Yoga will make you more flexible, but we don't know how," said Jules Mitchell, a yoga instructor and a master's degree candidate in exercise science at California State University, Long Beach.

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