Skip to main contentWeekend Reading: Combating poverty's effects with lots of love
By | June 21, 2014, 12:56am UTC - A Los Angeles charter school offer one view into educational efforts to combat the effects of poverty. (SCPR)
- U.S. News has given its top ranking for teacher prep programs to an online university that has no classes. (Vox)
- Many states are making it harder to become a teacher, echoing other countries’ policies. (Slate)
- Half of states let public schools restrain students, a controversial and at times dangerous practice. (ProPublica)
- Louisiana is the latest state to ditch the Common Core, which its governor did against lawmakers’ wishes. (HuffPo)
- Only about half of Americans have heard of the Common Core, despite widespread debate. (Curriculum Matters)
- Now that tenure is being disrupted, is there room for a teacher marketplace along Uber’s lines? (TechCrunch)
- A New Orleans nonprofit news site is dramatically reducing its education coverage amid budget cuts. (The Lens)
- U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has a lot on his plate this summer. (Politics K-12)
- Two new studies deepen understanding of Teach for America’s impact. (Teacher Beat)
- A graduate of a selective New York City school argues against changing the admissions process. (Time)
- At the end of the “Year of Big Data,” an effort to crunch the numbers on the school year. (Motherlode)