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Report Card: How Much Education Censorship Is Too Much?

by Jess Burnquist

  • December 9, 2014

A school board overrides the state education department to strike two pages of a science textbook because it doesn’t like them. Is this Russia? Nope — Arizona. Jess Burnquist, a teacher in Arizona, weighs in.

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What Teacher Salaries Really Cost Us

by Jess Burnquist

  • November 6, 2014

Despite evidence that paying teachers more improves student performance, education policy has not caught up. A teacher weighs in on what’s being lost.

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There’s Something Rotten in Newark

by Jess Burnquist

  • September 19, 2014

Beginning in May of this year in Newark, New Jersey, the Newark Students Union began to mobilize and stage a series of sit-ins and protests in response to frustrations about their school district and what…

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