Parents and community leaders will urge the DOE to address school overcrowding with a rally at City Hall and the launch of A Better Capital Plan campaign. (Daily News)
UFT president Randi Weingarten says she will ask the DOE to reconsider its ban on teachers wearing political buttons in class. (Post)
Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology’s new Urban Initiative aims to prepare students to work in underserved urban communities. (MarketWatch)
Students from poor families have narrowed the achievement gap in the Washington, D.C. area since the start of No Child Left Behind. (Washington Post)
An estimated half million readers all read the same book in Jumpstart’s effort to break the world record and encourage early childhood literacy. (NY Times)
One add-on to the bailout bill passed by the Senate is an expansion of a program that helps rural schools. (NY Times)
