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  • August 2008
    • PSAT Will Expand College Testing Stress to Jr. High

      PSAT Will Expand College Testing Stress to Jr. High

      (Newser) - The College Board will start offering the PSAT to eighth-graders in 2010, the LA Times reports. Students normally take the exam, a precursor of the SAT, in 10th or 11th grade, but kids have been signing up earlier in recent years. Critics charge that the College Board is pushing the college prep schedule forward to make more profit. More »

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      high school   college admissions   SAT   college board   college preparation   middle school   junior high   PSAT

  • June 2008
    • Teacher Who Branded Students Fired

      Teacher Who Branded Students Fired

      (Newser) - An Ohio school board has voted unanimously to fire a science teacher who used an electrostatic device to brand 8th-graders with a cross, the AP reports. Science teacher John Freshwater, who says the marks were simply Xs, had been in trouble with the board before for teaching creationism, slamming evolution and other scientific theories, and keeping a Bible on his desk. More »

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      school   teacher   branding   creationism   science education   middle school

  • March 2008

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