- A Bronx mother says that the city’s middle school fairs “felt almost useless.”
- Chicago might have “drop-out factories” in higher ed as well as high school, says Joanne Jacobs.
- EdWize has a video of Mulgrew’s address at the UFT parent outreach conference last weekend.
- The Ford Foundation announced $100 million in grants to improve urban secondary schools.
- There’s a public hearing on how NAEP should test ELLs and students with disabilities next week.
- InsideSchools has a rundown on all the new proposed Chancellor’s Regulations.
- A pilot merit-pay program in Texas produced weak, negative or no effects on student test scores.
- GOP wins in New Jersey and Virginia could mean cuts to those state’s pre-k programs.
- Chicago Public Schools is competing with a charter school over who gets to buy a building.
- City students will watch free live transmissions of opera in movie theaters, beginning with Turandot.
- President Obama and Ed Secretary Duncan promoted Race to the Top in Wisconsin.
- Duncan told reporters that final Race to the Top requirements would be out “soon.”
- And the best caption writer for a photo of Bloomberg and Weingarten could win big bucks, maybe.