Skip to main contentRemainders: Against the idea that bad weather excuses truancy
By | January 5, 2012, 2:00am UTC - A charter school principal laments that parents think bad weather excuses absences. (Insideschools)
- Revisiting a fact-check of Gov. Cuomo’s claims, repeated today, about the state’s school quality. (WNYC)
- On the education policy of Mitt Romney, the Iowa Caucus’s narrow winner. (Politics K-12)
- And three takes on the views of Rick Santorum. (Politics K-12, Dana Goldstein, Learning the Language)
- A Dallas student was deported to Colombia despite being 14 and an American citizen. (Dallas ISD Blog)
- Radical educators are running a series of “Inquiry to Action” training sessions for teachers. (Ed Notes)
- Two Boston teachers and TeachPlus fellows offer suggestions for better teacher evaluations. (HuffPo)
- A tip for parents of private school applicants: Send your children to camp in the suburbs. (Abacus Mom)
- “What’s wrong with education in America?” is an old debate with some new voices. (Business Insider)
- An argument that students can and should read the classics, not just what’s popular. (Daily News)