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Fla. School Board Allows Paddling Students after Banning Practice
OCALA, Fla. (AP)- Three years after banning paddling, the Marion County school board agreed Tuesday to let elementary school principals resume the practice to punish…
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Damon Hewitt on the ‘School to Prison’ Pipeline
Roland Martin talks with Damon Hewitt, the Director of Education Practice at the NAACP LDF about the “school to prison” pipeline that was occurring in…
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Roland Martin Talks with StudentFirst’s Michelle Rhee
Roland Martin Talks with Michelle Rhee, the founder and CEO of StudentFirst, about the recently released 50 state policy report card which ranks the quality…
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Report: Miss. School Discipline Too Hard on Kids
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Civil rights advocates say harsh disciplinary practices at many Mississippi schools lead to children being expelled and even incarcerated for minor…
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5 States to Increase Class Time in Some Schools
WASHINGTON (AP) — Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer.…
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Study: Race-Neutral Admissions Can Work
As the Supreme Court revisits the use of race in college admissions next week, critics of affirmative action are hopeful the justices will roll back…
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2012 College Grads Enter Improving Job Market
The class of 2012 is leaving college with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs. To the relief…
