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Standardized testing overkill at CPS

Even Chicago school officials allow that they’re giving students too many standardized tests. Will they really cut back?

Is there something deeper than gun violence that we need to focus on?

There’s a place for pathos in presidential speeches, but it’s running amok.

Chicago kindergarteners could spend a third of their school year taking standardized tests

Presidents choose which crises to respond to. For more than 40 years now, poverty hasn’t made the cut