Skip to main contentRemainders: Novel ideas about school siting, from a teacher
By | May 26, 2009, 11:29pm UTC - Diane Ravitch: Contrary to what Joel Klein thinks, education is not the civil rights issue of our time.
- Information is trickling out about G&T admissions, but it’s not fast enough for some families.
- Everyone’s looking for the education angle on Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor.
- A teacher at an overcrowded school has some unorthodox proposals for where new schools should go.
- Read the guide to the rubber room, thanks to a reassigned teacher who scanned it in.
- Pondering those subway ads that promote the city’s public schools.
- A teacher who started the year with high hopes is counting down the days until summer vacation.
- Did incoming interim deputy chancellor Santi Taveras struggle in a teaching position long ago?
- At least one school nurse might not have provided the best defense against swine flu.
- Analysis of the mayoral control fight that invokes the words of disgraced Providence mayor Buddy Cianci.
- Diagnoses of teaching disabilities are on the rise. (It’s the Onion, people! A joke!)
- Slate reports that the College Board isn’t trying to help students; it’s trying to make money.
- Baltimore is trying to double the number of Teach For America corps members there.
- Leo Casey explains why it’s a mistake to associate teacher unionism with student performance.
- In a Brooklyn district, a fight over charter school siting, with a dispatch from a parent leader.
- A call for more detailed school budget data, posted in more transparent ways.