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State boards of education seats up for grabs
- 10-28-2010
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Blog by Sean Cavanagh/Education Week
Most casual observers tend to focus on state boards of education when they're stirring things up—feuding over, say, the teaching of evolution, or the status of Islam in textbooks. Those battles matter, but state boards also play a major role in influencing teaching and learning in less theatrical ways, by shaping standards, setting graduation requirements, and implementing federal policy, among other duties. That's why the elections to fill those state board seats next Tuesday are worth watching—even if the results won't make national headlines. Eleven states, plus the District of Columbia, are staging elections for those panels this fall, according to the National Association of State Boards of Education. (more…)
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