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New York state students in several grades recently took new high-stakes accountability tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards (even though there is not yet a Core curriculum in New York schools), and a number of educators who saw the test reported problems with some of the questions.

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More than 320 active-duty and veterans from all branches of the military spent a recent day talking to students in the gym of -More- 

Social sciences deserve the same kind of attention and funding as physical science and medical research, President Barack Oba -More- 

A plan in Tennessee to do away with separate geography courses to create hybrid classes that blend geography with U.S.  -More- 

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Classroom lessons and learning should have qualities that could make them go viral, writes Kristen Swanson, a consultant for  -More- 

Determining the accuracy of information found when conducting online research is a skill needed at all levels of school, teac -More- 

The Santa Cruz, Calif., Youth City Council, which comprises high-school students, has been sworn in and has taken action on a -More- 

Speculation and stories of cannibalism during the 1609-1610 winter at the Jamestown colony are nothing new, but recent resear -More- 

A bill being considered in California would require the state Department of Education to develop an online civics class that  -More- 

NCSS provides the professional network and teaching resources to keep social studies a valued and vital part of the nation's  -More- 

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A roundup of articles and multimedia about young people published in the last month on NYTimes.com.    

Ideas for learning about black history and the Kentucky Derby; exploring historical connections to a disaster in Bangladesh; and arguing ideas of gender parity via a piece about street-naming in Berlin.    

More than 99 percent of the schools still have housing, and all of them are still offering financial aid, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling.    

In December, Baruch College, with no outdoor space to call its own, received permission from the city to permanently close its East 25th Street block to vehicular traffic; it has since been reconfigured into an outdoor plaza.    

More than 200 colleges and universities around the country still have space for freshmen and transfers this fall — and they also have some financial aid and housing available too, a new survey shows.

The annual Space Availability Survey is conducted by the National Association for College Admissions Counseling and can be found here. Here's a fact sheet with more details.

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