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• New guidelines for AP history: Are they still 'unpatriotic'?
• Why I Kept Firing Teachers in No Pineapple Left Behind
• Four-day week for Georgia public school district: Does it work?
• How the Media and You Are Misled by False Data

New guidelines for AP history: Are they still 'unpatriotic'? Posted: 30 Jul 2015 03:56 PM PDT In the wake of a partisan uproar last year, the 2015 guidelines for the Advanced Placement United States history curriculum released Thursday feature a more-balanced look at the country, academics say. The AP program, which allows high school students to take college-level courses for credit, is administered by The College Board, a private nonprofit corporation. Political conservatives argued that the 2014 guidelines for US history had an anti-American slant that highlighted wrongdoing and downplayed the achievements of the American people.

Why I Kept Firing Teachers in No Pineapple Left Behind Posted: 30 Jul 2015 10:02 AM PDT The dark, scathing critique of the American education system makes dehumanizing students a necessary evil.

Four-day week for Georgia public school district: Does it work? Posted: 30 Jul 2015 08:19 AM PDT This is the second consecutive year that the school district is operating with this atypical schedule, and metrics indicate the switch has had a positive effect on the students. "It has increased our discipline, our attendance is good, teacher attendance as well," said Jeff Martin, Chattooga High School principal to WSB-TV News in Atlanta. In the state of Georgia, schools are required to have no less than a daily average of five and a half hours of daily "instructional time" based on a 180-school-day calendar, according to guidelines set forth by the Georgia Department of Education.

How the Media and You Are Misled by False Data Posted: 30 Jul 2015 02:15 AM PDT It's worth noting too that this is the government's own data, which was largely ignored by the White House while portraying access to contraception as a crisis in the United States. Faulty claim #2: That brings us to another crisis declared by the Obama administration – the alleged epidemic of sexual assaults on college campuses, and the existence of "rape culture" in higher education. From Barack Obama and Joe Biden on down, the White House has tossed around statistics supposedly from reliable studies of the issue, claiming that 1 in 5 women in college will be the victim of sexual assault.

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