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Young writers show an appetite for risk in college application essays about money, class and the economy, submitted at a columnist’s invitation.    

The announcement by the basketball star Brittney Griner that she is a lesbian has altered an awkward relationship between Baylor University and its gay students.    

I, for one, do not believe that a roommate profile is the proper place to demonstrate one’s self-restraint. Or it could be that my profile is utterly repugnant … I am wearing Minnie Mouse ears in the photo.    

The Chicago Teachers Union and education activists are planning three days of demonstrations in different city neighborhoods, starting Saturday, to protest the closing of 54 public schools this year.

The closure plan by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and school district officials has been highly contentious, and has played a part in declining support for Emanuel, according to a new Chicago Tribune/WGN-TV poll, which showed that a majority of city residents oppose the closure plan, and that has affected his overall job rating.

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The students in the New Jersey humanities classes with whom we collaborate for this feature start each day reading and writing about The Times. To date, they have written more than 120 essays each based on Times articles and have, their teachers say, shown “astounding gains.”    

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Real Food for Kids - Montgomery is hosting a tasting and judging party for the group’s recipe contest this weekend.

The group of parent activists has been working to improve food served in schools. Last month Real Food for Kids encouraged the Montgomery community to submit healthy school lunch recipes that meet USDA guidelines and cost less than $4 a serving.

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After students leave schools of education, and after years of reforms, Calif. institutions often have no way of ascertaining if their programs produced strong teachers.

Some educators say evidence is lacking on whether new performance assessments are creating better teachers, according to this article from Education Week content partner The Hechinger Report.

What are some of the scandals and failures that are weighing down on Mr. Obama’s second term, according to the article?    

What would it look like on the outside? How would you decorate it?    

US - VA - University of Richmond, Job Summary: The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Richmond invites applications for a one-year visiting, non-tenure-track position in Sociology to begin August 2013. We s

Where does the colon in these sentences belong?    

I've written a lot about growing resistance to high-stakes standardized testing and other corporate-driven school reforms. In the following piece, the argument is made that the revolution against the reform movement is here. It was written by Jeff Bryant, an Associate Fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and the owner of a marketing and communications consultancy. It serves numerous organizations including Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, PBS, and International Planned Parenthood Foundation. He writes extensively about public education policy at The Education Opportunity Network. Follow Jeff on Twitter: jeffbcdm

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Correction: The original version of this post said the scientist got 31.5 million followers as a result of Obama's tweet. I got that wrong. He potentially got that many readers for his study because that's how many followers Obama has. Sorry. The researcher did get worldwide attention.

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This word has appeared in 544 New York Times articles in the past year.