Study says Kentucky’s education gap costs the state nearly $1 billion each year. (Louisville Business First)
Lead poisoning is a huge problem holding back the performance of children in Cleveland schools. (Plain Dealer)
Ohio educators expect this year’s state test to go better after confusion and glitches last year. (Canton Repository)
Exclusive Cincinnati public high school has exploded by nearly 1,000 students in 10 years. (Cincinnati Enquirer)
Illinois state education department leaders cash out big time when they leave their jobs. (Chicago Tribune)
Linda Lenz: After covering education in Chicago for 25 years at Catalyst, the big issues have hardly changed. (Catalyst)
A voucher-like program directing aid to parents who want their kids to attend private schools is in the works in the Illinois legislature. (WBEZ)
Detroit ranks worst in reading and math among big cities on NAEP for the fourth straight time. (Detroit News)
Ohio director of Michelle Rhee-founded StudentsFirst fired for suggesting Detroit convert all schools into charter schools. (Detroit News)
Here’s the newspaper column that got Greg Harris fired: Think outside the box in reforming DPS. (Detroit News)
A coalition of educators tells Deray McKesson, the Teach For America alum at the fore of the Black Lives Matter movement, that TFA undermines equity. (Jacobin Mag)
Charles Cole: Are we really having this Teach For America conversation again? (Citizen Ed)
Sal Kahn and the tech elite’s quest to reinvent school in its own image. (Wired)
Two teachers who aren’t working for their unions have started a political action committee of teachers who support Hillary Clinton for president. (L.A. Times)
Many sharp tensions in Denver’s school board race can be traced to evolving definitions of “neighborhood school.” (Chalkbeat)
Here’s the evidence that white children benefit from attending integrated schools. (NPR)
What we know and what we don’t about Spring Valley High School, the South Carolina school where a police officer was videotaped tackling a student at her desk. (Kicker)
A teacher argues that the best way to prevent incidents like the one in Spring Valley is to lead with love every day. (Jose Vilson)
The incident was an extreme example of South Carolina’s otherwise dismal record on school discipline. (The Atlantic)
Roxane Gay: Spring Valley is yet more proof that black children are not safe anywhere in America. (New York Times)
People pretty much saw what they wanted to in the country’s first-ever decline in NAEP scores. (Answer Sheet)
Is it fair to connect the country’s collective NAEP stumble to the introduction of the Common Core? It’s hard to say. (Hechinger Report)
Mysteriously, Hillsborough County, Fla., which New York’s education chief used to lead, drove Florida’s outsized losses. (Jay Greene)
Parents in China pay 35 times the regular school tuition to get their children Common Core-aligned, American-style instruction. (New York Times)
New York City’s lightning-rod charter operator Eva Moskowitz is under fire over reports that one of her schools maintained a “Got to Go” list of disruptive students. (Chalkbeat)
In rebutting criticism of her schools, Eva Moskowitz released a 10-year-old’s disciplinary record, potentially violating federal privacy laws. (Slate)
The hottest show on Broadway, “Hamilton,” will soon get an audience of 20,000 schoolchildren. (Hollywood Reporter)
Happy Halloween! Follow #eduween for some not-so-scary surprises.
