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Topic: Standardized Testing

Former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman speaks during an interview with a reporter outside a subway station on June 17, 2020 in the Bronx borough of New York City. (Jeenah Moon/Getty Images)

Bowman blasts standardized test mandate

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
Parkland shooting victim and survior David Hogg; center, joins Manuel Oliver and his wife Patricia Oliver, parents of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, and other members of the 50 Miles More walk against gun violence rally at the end of their walk on August 26, 2018 in Springfield, Massachusetts. (Getty/Scott Eisen)

Why David Hogg deserves Harvard

Amanda Marcotte
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/g/Areipa.lt'>Areipa.lt</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

failing diversity test

Jake Murray - The Conversation
Noam Chomsky, John B. King Jr. (Reuters/Majed Jaber/Joshua Roberts)

Backlash over John King

Ben Norton
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/<a href='https://secure.istockphoto.com/profile/bluestocking'>bluestocking</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

Obama's stunning test reversal

David Dayen
(AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

The Arne Duncan era is over

Elias Isquith
Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders (Reuters/AP/Jonathan Ernst/Susan Walsh/Photo montage by Salon)

Right on banks, wrong on kids

Jeff Bryant
(Last Week Tonight With John Oliver)

Oliver rips standardized tests

Colin Gorenstein
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"Poster child for tenure"

Sarah Jaffe

Jason Wallestad - Journo Adviser
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College admissions are a joke

Matthew Bruenig
Michelle Rhee (Reuters/Max Whittaker)

Michelle Rhee's Ritalin kids

Caroline Miller
(iStockphoto/samxmeg)

Owen Davis - Alternet
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-590956p1.html'>Kris Schmidt</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

MICHAEL B. MAROIS - Bloomberg
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Mary Elizabeth Williams
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