Skip to main contentRemainders: $1.7 billion on testing is too much or not enough
By | November 30, 2012, 10:05pm UTC - Nationally, $1.7 billion is spent annually on standardized testing; some say it’s not enough. (HuffPo)
- NYU pulled the plug on a Harlem Children’s Zone-like initiative to help Newark schools. (Hechinger)
- A teacher’s open question: “How do you combat (and … change) low teacher morale?” (B Niche)
- Chicago teachers say they’re hopeful but not confident about performance tasks in evaluation. (Catalyst)
- A map of charter school penetration by city shows that New York is not close to the lead. (Flypaper)
- John Liu visited his alma mater, Queens’ P.S. 203, and met a younger version of himself. (YouTube)
- Rick Hess: Thinking the Common Core will change everything suddenly is a mistake. (Straight Up)
- A critic of the state’s strategy for counting student growth pans Merryl Tisch’s op/ed. (School Finance 101)
- A teacher riffs off questions about Joel Klein’s life story to ask questions about her impact. (SchoolBook)
- The second-term exodus from the U.S. Department is underway — at the press office. (Politics K-12)
