A five-part essay criticizing the city’s ed policies on Diane Ravitch’s blog ends with two dozen proposals.
A former NASA engineer says teaching involves a lot more difficult problem-solving—and failure. (Slate)
An educator says he doesn’t expect teachers “to fall in love with the next chancellor.” (JD2718)
Bloomberg on his last John Gambling appearance: changes to ed policy “a potential disaster.” (WSJ)
An eight-year-old P.S. 152 student was killed by a truck this morning before school. (WSJ)
Here’s how the learning gap grows over time between children of different income brackets. (EdWeek)
A look at D.C.’s improved NAEP scores, and a suggestion to further boost them. (Greater Greater Ed)
A Congressman from Georgia said poor students should sweep floors to get free school lunch. (AP)
Lawrence Summers and Arne Duncan publicly voiced support for de Blasio’s pre-K plan today. (NY1)
A study finds that gifted classes don’t improve scores much for borderline students. (Atlantic)
This video from the Fordham Institute has us speechless here at GothamSchools. (EdExcellence)
Happy holidays! We’ll be following the chancellor pick, of course, but otherwise we’ll be off until Bill de Blasio’s inaugural events at the start of the new year.