Even Chicago school officials allow that they’re giving students too many standardized tests. Will they really cut back?
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The speech Obama should give in Chicago
Is there something deeper than gun violence that we need to focus on?
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The State of the Union: Listen carefully
There’s a place for pathos in presidential speeches, but it’s running amok.
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Testing in kindergarten: whatever happened to story time?
Chicago kindergarteners could spend a third of their school year taking standardized tests
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Is poverty among Obama’s priorities?
Presidents choose which crises to respond to. For more than 40 years now, poverty hasn’t made the cut