One likely beneficiary of Supreme Court Antonin Scalia’s death: teachers unions, whose mandatory dues Scalia had signaled he would rule against. (TIME)
John King is the first former principal to serve as U.S. Secretary of Education. Few of his predecessors even taught. (Politics K-12)
Three students tasked with improving their low-performing school say academic tracking is one impediment. (Chalkbeat)
Virtual teacher coaching could be a lower-cost, higher-impact way to improve instruction. (Hechinger Report)
D.C.’s teacher of the year says he never had a great teacher of his own. (Washington Post)
Testing flexibility in the new federal education law doesn’t reduce the pressure that teachers face, according to someone who works with many of them. (Chalkbeat)
How schools get segregated and why it matters, by the founder of a racially isolated New York City school. (Vox)
The politics around Baltimore’s unique charter sector could put mayoral candidate Deray Mckesson in a bind. (Slate)
Get to know the Noble charter school network, Chicago’s largest — and most controversial. (Catalyst)
An uncoordinated background check system means that teachers disciplined in one state can get jobs in others. (USA Today)
Raising salaries is a common suggestion for solving teacher shortages. But it probably won’t work. (The Atlantic)
What fourth graders did after they learned about the water crisis in Flint, Mich. (Pedagogy of the Reformed)
To end Tennessee’s testing crisis, an informed father writes, the state needs to strip the stakes from the scores. (Dad Gone Wild)