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By | May 3, 2011, 10:58pm UTC - Cami Anderson, a top NYC school official, will be Newark’s new superintendent. (Star-Ledger, WSJ)
- Honoring National Teacher Appreciation Day with a local thank-you tweet. (#thankateachernyc)
- Ed Sec Arne Duncan’s teacher appreciation letter is receiving critical comments. (Ed.gov, Edweek)
- A retired teacher’s new blog fact-checks the city’s education reporters. (Untamed Teacher via Ed Notes)
- What to do if you want to go to public high school in September but didn’t apply. (Insideschools)
- On New York City’s two DOEs: Dennis Walcott’s and Shael Polakow-Suransky’s. (Ed in the Apple)
- Near Ground Zero, Stuyvesant High School students reflect on Osama bin Laden’s death. (City Room)
- The post-Osama invention of a Martin Luther King quote is a lesson plan on punctuation. (Atlantic)
- Why is a May 12 labor rally unlike all other rallies? Because it involves teaching. (GS Community)
- An involved parent shares an open letter about issues with this year’s CEC elections. (NYC PS Parents)
- There might still be room at tomorrow’s screening of a new documentary on Pace HS. (GS Calendar)
- Michelle Obama’s fitness-focused dance moves were caught on tape at a school today. (Jezebel)
- There are just 223 black teachers in Denver’s schools, down in the last decade. (Ed News Colorado)
- Atlanta’s Board of Education has announced it will stop communicating with the press. (WABE)
- A teacher describes what standardized tests are like for the students who don’t pass them. (GOOD)