Remainders: Predicting wider post-Common Core score gaps

  • Reading the Common Core tea leaves, a teacher sees wider achievement gaps. (Chaz’s School Daze)
  • What New York will go through this year with test scores, other states will face in 2015. (Flypaper)
  • In a Q&A, the head of the DOE’s enrollment office talks about the challenges of his position. (Times)
  • Florida teachers don’t want scores of students they don’t teach to affect their ratings. (Answer Sheet)
  • A photography project documents the life and times of a first-year high school teacher in Brooklyn. (Lens)
  • A new book profiles Alan Bersin, the proto-Joel Klein who led San Diego’s schools until 2005. (Flypaper)
  • An eighth-grader created a New York State test lookalike to show her disdain for testing. (Chalk Face)
  • Cami Anderson said she had to be talked into becoming Newark’s superintendent. (Fast Company)
  • Tim Daly: In Chicago, as in most places, few people fall on a single “side” of education politics. (TNTP)
  • Two analogies to describe testing students on nonexistent curriculum involve nudity. (NYC P.S. Parents)
  • Alexander Russo says “reformers” are finally learning to fight back against attacks. (This Week in Ed)
  • A union activist explains why he’s still flyering for UFT elections when most voting is done. (JD2718)