Skip to main contentRemainders: How the UFT's mayoral endorsement will get made
By | May 17, 2013, 12:10am UTC - A primer on how the UFT endorsement will go down includes a note on secret voting. (Ed in the Apple)
- Two thirds of education “influentials” think a pause on Common Core stakes will happen. (Answer Sheet)
- It seems like maybe U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan isn’t opposed to a pause. (Politics K-12)
- Teacher Stephen Lazar, who critiqued N.Y.’s history standards, finds promise in national ones. (Shanker)
- Three prominent charter school operators are finalists for a new Broad Prize. (District Dossier)
- Examples from New York City fuel the question of whether school discipline has gone too far. (Salon)
- A teacher who wants to transform discipline lists old and new ways of handling misbehavior. (Mrs. Ripp)
- Fred Smith praises the protest at Teachers College against Regents chief Merryl Tisch. (SchoolBook)
- In addition to closing many schools, Philadelphia is replacing a quarter of principals this year. (Notebook)
- The city mailed out middle school admissions letters a few days earlier than planned. (Insideschools)
- Tennessee will pay teachers with top ratings to transfer to lower-performing schools. (Teacher Beat)