Remainders: The education legacy of the March on Washington

By 
Philissa Cramer
 | August 29, 2013, 12:53am UTC
  • Fifty years after the March on Washington, two Brooklyn families are divided by class. (Hechinger)
  • Education was a theme of President Obama’s speech at the commemoration of the march. (Politics K-12)
  • Bill Clinton took a potshot at critics of the Common Core during the ceremony, maybe. (Answer Sheet)
  • Watch Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a Dream Speech,” improvised 50 years ago today. (The Lede)
  • Flashback: Mayor Bloomberg’s bid to tie his education vision to King’s didn’t go well. (GothamSchools)
  • While King’s dream has not been realized, the high school graduation rate gap has narrowed. (Russo)
  • A new poll has Bill de Blasio in the lead and Bill Thompson in a bind in the mayor’s race. (GS in Brief)
  • De Blasio said again that he is sure legislators would sign off on his tax increase proposal. (CapitalNY)
  • A quarter of schools had well over half of the city’s “proficient” students, a UFT analysis found. (Edwize)
  • A city teacher outlines the options available to teachers skeptical of the new evaluation system. (MORE)