Skip to main contentRemainders: A guide for new teachers who brim with idealism
By | August 30, 2011, 12:08am UTC - Instructions to help new teachers balance idealism with realism. (Coach G’s Teaching Tips)
- Nearly 600 districts and nonprofits applied for $150 million in federal innovation funds. (Politics K-12)
- Diane Ravitch and a city schoolteacher, GEM’s Brian Jones, on trends in ed policy. (Democracy Now)
- Steven Brill and Michael Winerip parry over Winerip’s critique of Brill’s book. (NYTimes Comments)
- A teacher concludes his “Class Warfare” commentary: Brill wrote the story too soon. (Gary Rubinstein)
- A California teacher writes an open letter to her new principal, the sixth in nine years. (Edutopia)
- A critic of Teach for America sounds the alarm about TFA’s efforts at union friendliness. (Daily Kos)
- Jay Mathews is soliciting readers’ formulas for “a good school.” (Class Struggle)
- Now at Harvard’s ed school, Ruben Brosbe says he is setting aside his preconceptions. (GS Community)
- Mike Petrilli: New York shouldn’t sue over teacher evals, because anything is an improvement. (Flypaper)
- A chair of the Digital Learning Council describes the classrooms of the future — of 2016. (Hechinger)
- An evangelist of high-tech school reforms lists 18 low-tech innovations and best practices. (HuffPo)