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Apple $799 iPad Pro Faces Competition from $499 Microsoft Surface 3

With Microsoft’s Surface tablets generating about $3.6 billion in revenue over the last year, Apple introduced the iPad Pro to protect their iPad franchise where sales fell to the lowest level since 2011. Although Apple’s “Pro” comes with a Surface-like detachable keyboard and stylus, its short comings may limit its popularity with the creative crowd.

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Obama Touts ‘New College Scorecard’ In Weekly Address

President Obama announced “my Administration is launching a new College Scorecard” during Saturday’s Weekly Address. Transcript as Follows: “Hi, everybody.  Next week marks seven years since a financial crisis on Wall Street that would usher in some hard years for

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Less Than 50% of California Students Meet Common Core Test Standards

On Wednesday, California’s Board of Education acknowledged that more than half of the state’s students in third through eighth and 11th grades failed Common Core math and English tests. The results of the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments were announced for the first time, reported The Fresno Bee.

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Planned Parenthood Clinic Moving Next Door To Charter School

A Washington Post article about the relocation of Planned Parenthood’s new flagship abortion clinic next door to Two Rivers Public Charter School indicates the school’s executive director appears concerned about the images of aborted babies her students could see on the signs of pro-life protesters. But no mention is made about concerns of the abortions going on inside.

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Author Chronicles Failed Education Scheme by Facebook’s Zuckerberg and Cory Booker

According to the New York Times, while Dale Russakoff’s new book, The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? has just hit bookstores Tuesday, it is already “a source of enormous contention.” It begins in 2010 when Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg became the subject of much media attention as he announced on Oprah that he would throw $100 million into Newark, New Jersey’s failing public school system.

Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, arrives for the Allen & Company Sun Valley C

Hiding Common Core’s Damage: New SAT Won’t Allow Comparison To Prior Years’ Scores

“Next year the College Board will roll out a major change in the SAT that will make comparisons with past results impossible, and allow Common Core proponents to argue ‘these are different and better tests, so don’t pay attention to past results,'” Wurman states. “We are lucky that this year’s SAT has not changed yet, so the decline is clearly visible and cannot be hidden or denied.” The College Board president is David Coleman, the so-called “architect” of the Common Core standards.

SAT preparation books are seen on a shelf in this file photo.

Caught on Cellphone: Wild Texas High School Brawl Called ‘Just Another Fight’

A Texas high school brawl was captured on a cellphone. Back-to-school means back-to-brawling for some out-of- control Texas teenagers at one high school. On the second week of the new school year, double dramatic slugfests were caught on one student’s cellphone and even were called “just another fight.” Meanwhile, the violent video made local news coverage, got picked up by sister stations in other TV markets, and landed on Yahoo News!, but no arrests were made.

Texas High School Brawl

UT Removes Gender-Neutral Pronouns

The University of Tennessee, bucking political correctness, has ruled that the school’s Office for Diversity and Inclusion website will have to remove gender-neutral pronouns.

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SAT Scores Hit Four-Decade Low

Graduating high school students’ SAT college admission scores fell again this year–to the lowest level in four decades. Rapidly growing expenditure on education seems to be producing poor test results.

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Gaza Schools Expel Girls for Not Wearing Headscarves

Numerous high schools in Gaza have begun to expel female students because they did not wear headscarves on the first day of school. There is no law that states female students must wear a headscarf, but that did not stop school administrators from punishing those who do not wear one.

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CA Assembly Passes Bill To Repeal Campus Carry

On September 1, California Assembly members voted 42 to 23 to repeal an exemption that currently allows concealed carry permit holders to carry their guns on college and university campuses for self-defense.

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