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• Dissenting Voices Shortchanged in New Orleans Article
  
• U.S. Supreme Court to Weigh Prayers at Municipal Meetings
  In a case with implications for school boards, the justices will weigh the constitutionality of prayers at municipal meetings
• Alabama Congresswoman Takes Aim at Common Core Standards
  U.S. Rep. Martha Roby, R-Ala., has introduced a bill that would prohibit the U.S. Department of Education and the education secretary from using federal grant money or waivers to encourage states to adopt common standards or tests.
• Welcome Our New Editors!
  You may have noticed from Rethinking Schools Facebook page that four new editorial associates have joined our volunteer editorial board. Moé Yonamine, from Portland, Ore., was born in Okinawa and brings the insights of someone who has lived in a place bullied–but not defeated–by colonial powers. Moé teaches and Oregon’s most racially diverse high school, […]
• How the Body Reacts to Sexual Assault
  Dana Goldstein
  

  Senate candidate Todd Akin claimed yesterday that “legitimate rape” somehow turns off the female body’s reproductive capabilities. That is absurd.

• 50 years of moving forward: a reflection on civil rights