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By | December 19, 2014, 7:47pm UTC - An administrator asks if it’s ethical to pull his children out of the low-performing schools he’s supposed to help. (Dear Prudence)
- Taken together, two charts suggest that American students do a lot of homework that doesn’t pay off. (Vox)
- Turning around schools with low achievement rates never seems to work. (Washington Post)
- GOP senate aides are working on an NCLB reauthorization bill that could dump annual testing. (EdWeek)
- A Mississippi principal predicts ‘chaos’ if the state backs out of Common Core. (Hechinger Report)
- AFT President Randi Weingarten shared her own sexual assault story as part of a union push to protect women. (Jezebel)
- An education professor argues that teachers unions should agitate against police brutality. (Jacobin)
- The upswing in school choice in Nashville leaves neighborhood schools with uncertain futures. (The Scene)
- A teacher grapples with the best way to write about teaching and lands on some solid advice. (Rational Expressions)
- A city ESL teacher says bilingual programs sound promising — as long as they’re done right. (NYC Educator)
- A former teacher shares a tongue-in-cheek quiz to help colleagues figure out if they’re no good at their jobs. (Answer Sheet)
- Two New York City educators see a school-to-prison pipeline for gifted students and want to change it. (Hechinger Report)
- The latest episode of a podcast about careers profiles a KIPP principal from Houston. (Slate)
- The Common Core State Standards could be on the precipice of widespread repeal. (Hechinger Report)
- Idaho student journalists “plagiarized” a news story after their new state superintendent did the same thing. (Romenesko)
- A recap of 2014’s biggest news in Los Angeles schools starts with the superintendent’s resignation. (L.A. School Report)
- “The Colbert Report,” which ended this week, frequently featured education-related guests. (This Week in Education)