Education

School Scandals Reveal the Problem with Grading Schools

We measure school performance by test scores because it’s easy. But no simplistic set of A-F grades can ever account for all the intangible ways schools nurture their pupils.

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  • Leaving ‘No Child’ Far Behind
  • In the decade since the parties put politics aside to pass the No Child Left Behind Act, education policy has gone from pragmatic consensus to ideological division.

  • Hoopla: It's Like Netflix for Libraries
  • Library systems in cities across the country are debuting Hoopla, a free and unlimited streaming service for music and movies -- though the selection won’t be quite the same as Netflix or Hulu.




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