Predictive Test Scores and Diploma Privilege

The International Baccalaureate program, which credentials high-school students who take college-level classes, canceled exams this year because of COVID-19. But that did not stop the program from granting exam grades. …

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Today in Supreme Court History: July 14, 1913

7/14/1913: President Gerald R. Ford’s birthday. He would appoint Justice John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court. President Gerald Ford ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds …

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Brickbat: How Else Will They Learn?

California’s Oak Grove School District says it has fired a special education teacher caught on video coughing on a 1-year-old boy. Nancy Norland reportedly became upset when the child’s mother …

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FitzGibbon v. Radack Settlement

This is the case I blogged about here and here (and also, as to a collateral lawsuit, here); two weeks ago it was officially dismissed pursuant to a settlement. The …

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Should Schools Be Fully Reopened in the Fall?

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos made the chat-show circuit on Sunday to argue that the federal government should withhold money from public K–12 schools that don’t fully reopen in the fall. …

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