Want To Improve Teacher Training?  Stop Playing Games With Teacher Standards

Want To Improve Teacher Training?  Stop Playing Games With Teacher Standards

Two U.S. senators plan to revise the federal Higher Education Act to make it ready for re-authorization. Should we find that reassuring?

The senators, Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee) and Patti Murray (D-Washington), don't tell us who will be writing or paying for the drafting of this mammoth bill — just as they didn't tell us who wrote or paid for the 1,000-page re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

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Bernie Sanders’s Son Thinking About Running for Congress in New Hampshire

Matthew McDonald

Levi Sanders, 48, lives in Claremont, New Hampshire, which is not in the 1st District in the Granite State.

But the U.S. House seat is open in 2018, as Carol Shea-Porter, a Democrat, is not seeking re-election.

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