Education Nation Weekly Newsletter Education Nation // February 25, 2015 // 5:21 PM EST February is Heart Health Month and while the month may almost be over, it's not too late to celebrate! The Parent Toolkit's latest blog features 5 easy and affordable ways to help your family be more heart healthy. This week in education news: The Obama administration pushes back against proposed changes to No Child Left Behind; a new report indicates teachers give better grades to students they like; and parents opt their children out of standardized tests. As always, you can join the conversation on Facebook andTwitter. The Biggest Losers in the No Child Left Behind Rewrite (Hechinger Report, 2/24) The Great U.S. History Battle  (NPR, 2/24) Common Core Seen Falling Short in High School Math(Education Week, 2/24) How Twitter is Shaping the #CommonCore Debate (Hechinger Report, 2/24) Feds Find Discrimination Against Female Athletes in NYC Schools (WNYC, 2/24) Suspended Students Lose Millions of Days of Instruction While Out of School (Washington Post, 2/23) As Common-Core Test Season Begins, Teachers Feel Pressure (Education Week, 2/23) If Your Teacher Likes You, You Might Get a Better Grade (NPR, 2/22) Testy Over Testing: More Students Snub Standardized Exams (AP, 2/20) L.A. Unified Says it Can't Afford 'Computer For All' Plan (Los Angeles Times, 2/20) Even With Debt, College Still Pays Off (The Atlantic, 2/20) Some College Groups, Opposed to Obama Ratings Plan, Offer Ideas on How to Structure the System (Inside Higher Ed, 2/19)

Chicago Program Uses Home Visits To Boost Latino Early Education For many Latino families, early childhood education remains tenuously out of reach. One solution that has been used for years at a Chicago center might change that, and it's as simple as a knock on the door. More

National Park Service to Give Fourth-Graders Free Admission Fourth-grade students and their families will get free admission to national parks, forests and wildlife refuges for a year, thanks to a new White House initiative set for this fall ahead of the National Park Service’s 100th birthday. More

Basketball Teams Banned for Both Trying to Throw Same Game Two Tennessee high school girls basketball teams reached a new low last weekend by trying to lose the same game, officials said. More