- Education secretary Arne Duncan has picked his deputy, but he hasn’t named names yet.
- Insideschools doyenne Judy of “Ask Judy” fame explains the value of an Advanced Regents diploma.
- Diane Ravitch asks if public schools can survive the current era of foundation-funded education policy.
- A private school consultant says her business is brisk, despite the economic downturn.
- Jamaica High School in Queens got landmark status today.
- The DOE extended kindergarten registration until April 20, after initially closing it during spring break.
- Alexander Russo reveals that at the new Locke High School in L.A., good students get special shirts.
- The AFT, Randi Weingarten’s national union, is asking teachers if they support national standards.
- England this week named the first school to be classified as failing under a new measurement system.
- The notion that states project their prison populations based on test scores might be apocryphal.