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• Skip the Scantron: Americans Are Fed Up With Standardized Testing
• Save Time This Year With 10 Free Tech Tools for High School Teachers
• Shaq teams up with Mayor Ras Baraka for Newark high school basketball tournament

Skip the Scantron: Americans Are Fed Up With Standardized Testing Posted: 24 Aug 2015 03:30 PM PDT The survey found that 64 percent of respondents believe there's too much emphasis on standardized testing in their local public schools. Just 14 percent of public school parents polled responded that test scores, which usually arrive after the school year is over, are very important. The poll found that nearly 80 percent of Americans responded that "how engaged students are with their classwork and their level of hope for the future are very important for measuring the effectiveness of the public schools in their community," according to a statement from PDK.

Save Time This Year With 10 Free Tech Tools for High School Teachers Posted: 24 Aug 2015 05:00 AM PDT "I think that a lot of people forget that in middle school and high school we have so many more students than the elementary school teachers have," says Stephanie Richardson, an English teacher at North Harrison High School in Ramsey, Indiana. While an elementary school teacher may teach 25 to 30 students, she says, she is expected to give each of her 150 to 175 students the same amount of attention. Suggestions contributed via Twitter and collected in interviews are below.

Shaq teams up with Mayor Ras Baraka for Newark high school basketball tournament Posted: 22 Aug 2015 02:40 PM PDT The basketball legend returned to his hometown, teaming up with Mayor Ras Baraka to co-host a basketball tournament for high school students.

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