- The Times editorial board misunderstand basic facts about the city schools, Patrick Sullivan says.
- Gail Robinson finds one reason to think a mayoral control decision is coming soon.
- The Ladders of Discipline: What you don’t know about teaching in New York City.
- The Staten Island P.S. 22 chorus will appear on MTV News tomorrow.
- Philly teachers who hadn’t been signing individual contracts for years will have to sign them.
- A call not to yell at teacher unions for not supporting any old reform that gets thrown at them.
- Claudio Sanchez raises the question: Should everyone really go to college?
- Looks like Adrian Fenty forgot to write a check to D.C. charter schools, which now suffer.
- Alexander Russo wonders what Arne Duncan’s schedule looks like. (Probably FOIA’ble.)
- The low shelf-life of achievement gap closings, plus other insights on NAEP.
- Arne Duncan says good teachers “walk on water,” but is good teaching really a “miracle”?
- Or maybe good teaching requires technology. Or maybe it doesn’t.