- Gov. Paterson is not including education cuts in his emergency budget legislation next week.
- City Room ranks city charter schools by their admission rates, highlighting the five choosiest.
- InsideSchools looks at all the reasons a student could be banned from a graduation ceremony.
- David Bloomfield: allowing organizations to certify teachers will create more unmonitored diploma mills.
- In his first year, a teacher used to hear students whine, “I want to go home.” Now it’s not the norm.
- A troubled student-turned-journalist wonders if School of One could have helped him.
- Jay Mathews suggests an antidote to competition for celebrity graduation speakers: let teachers speak.
- A teacher says giving partial credit on a test is reasonable, the problem is when the test is politicized.
- Rick Hess says his fellow edu-reformers need to get over their fear of criticism and questioning.
- A Harvard professor says a recent conference about merit pay left him unconvinced about its power.
- New Jersey has jettisoned the idea of offering a teacher retirement incentive to save money.
- Formerly in charge of RttT, Joanne Weiss is moving up to become Duncan’s chief of staff.
- Detroit’s mayor has an uphill battle to win mayoral control partly because the city has already tried it.
- And P.S. 22’s famed chorus won a the Webby Artist of the Year award.