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A 2020 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award winner The rise of high-stakes testing in New York and across the nation has narrowed and simplified what is taught, while becoming central to the effort to privatize public schools. However, it and similar reform efforts have met resistance, with New York as the exemplar for how to repel standardized testing and invasive data collection, such as inBloom. In New York, the two parent/teacher organizations that have been most effective are Long Island Opt Out and New York State Allies for Public Education.  The opt-out movement has been so successful that 20% of students statewide and 50% of students on Long Island refused to take tests. In Opting Out, two parent leaders of the opt-out movement--Jeanette Deutermann and Lisa Rudley--tell why and how they became activists in the two organizations. The story of parents, students, and teachers resisting not only high-stakes testing but also privatization and other corporate reforms parallels the rise of teachers across the country going on strike to demand increases in school funding and teacher salaries. Both the success of the opt-out movement and teacher strikes reflect the rise of grassroots organizing using social media to influence policy makers at the local, state, and national levels.

By studying MS symptoms in mice, Dr. V. Wee Yong and Dr. Smriti Agrawal of U of C's Hotchkiss Brain Institute discovered that a \"molecular switch\" called Emmprin allows immune cells - which help the body fight off illness and infection - to escape from enlarged blood cells and attack the protective covering wrapped around nerves in the brain or spine of MS patients.

Note: .336 words with 70 in optional trim CALGARY - Frustrated passengers pulled into Calgary on Tuesday morning after being stranded on a Greyhound bus in northern Ontario for 14 hours with no explanation of why they'd been left.

Note: .446 words with 73 in optional trim CALGARY - A Canadian academic is helping to turn the tables on the periodic table - altering the chart of chemical elements displayed for generations in high school science labs by updating the atomic weight of 10 elements.

Note: .431 words with 114 in optional trim CALGARY - Botox may be used to help smooth out wrinkles and give children with cerebral palsy more control over their muscles, but the injections themselves could be responsible for causing muscle weakness throughout the body, according to researchers at the University of Calgary.

Botulinum toxin A, also known as Botox, is currently used to treat children with cerebral palsy because it can temporarily offer patients more control over their muscles.

According to the initial investigators report Capt. Brian Bews was conducting a \"high alpha pass\" about 90 metres above ground when the aircraft began to sink.

Over the past 14 years, offenders serving time at the medium-security facility have processed three million pairs of donated glasses on behalf of the Canadian Lions Eyeglass Recycling Centre (CLERC), helping return vision to millions in more than 50 developing countries.

Note: .606 words With 1 photo CALGARY - With most Canadians agreeing that improving literacy levels is the key to boosting the economy, national and local literacy groups say the workplace needs to take a greater role in helping improve the reading and writing skills of staff.

Alberta cowboy Terry Grant - known as Mantracker thanks to his hit television show of the same name - was asked recently to join British soldiers training at Canadian Forces Base Suffield to offer tips for detecting improvised explosive devices.