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Widespread technical glitches interrupted thousands of Fairfax County schools students taking Virginia’s standards of learning tests online Thursday.

In a letter to parents, the district acknowledged “significant problems” while administering the online tests due to an outage with the school system’s Internet service provider.

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In the video below, veteran teacher Ellie Rubenstein of Highland Park, Ill., resigns after eloquently explaining how teaching has changed over the past 15 years of school reform and why she believes public education is being misdirected.

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An effort to draw more foreign students to French universities has led to worries about “Americanization disguised as globalization.”    

Widespread technical glitches interrupted thousands of Fairfax County schools students taking Virginia’s standards of learning tests online Thursday.

In a letter to parents, the district acknowledged “significant problems” while administering the online tests due to an outage with the school system’s Internet service provider.

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The House approved a Republican proposal Thursday to allow interest rates on federal student loans to rise or fall from year to year with the government’s cost of borrowing, ending a system in which rates are fixed by law.

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Prince George’s County School Board Chairman Verjeana Jacobs (District 5) said Friday that Alvin Crawley, the county’s interim school superintendent, has agreed to stay in his position until school reopens in August.

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Chicago officials are going ahead with the largest mass closing of public schools in the country's history despite polls showing that a majority of city residents oppose it and looming questions about the rationale offered for the action.

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Reflections on the 971 poems submitted for our Fourth Annual Found Poetry Contest. Winners will be announced starting May 28.    

Twenty-three states exempt individual teacher-evaluation ratings from disclosure under open-records laws.

Paul Tudor Jones sent a statement to The Washington Post in reference to comments that he made at a U-Va. McIntire School of Commerce investment symposium April 26. When asked at the event why there are not more women high up in the trading world, Jones said that most women lose focus when they have children. This is the full statement he released to The Post on Thursday:

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The bill would head off a doubling of interest rates, instead tying the rates to prevailing market trends, an approach not favored by Senate Democrats.    

Paul Tudor Jones, the hedge fund billionaire, told an audience of University of Virginia students, alumni and others that it is difficult for mothers to be successful traders because connecting with a child is a focus “killer.” As long as women continue having children, he said, the industry is likely to be dominated by men.

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As the fiscal 2014 budget season closes with the Montgomery County Council’s final approval of a $4.8 billion spending plan Thursday, the school system is already gearing up for 2015 with a new budget process that will tap focus groups for input.

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You may view "Star Trek" as just another science fiction movie, but world renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson doesn't.

Tyson, in the video below, explains that he is a big fan of Star Trek -- all of the various television series -- because the franchise makes some attempt to use physics to tell its stories. Star Wars never did, and that's one of the reasons he prefers Star Trek.

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A Century Foundation report shows a sharp increase in enrollment of lower-income, nonwhite students at community colleges, institutions that will do much to shape the economy.