- Think stimulus talk can’t make you squirm? Try watching the Fordham Institute’s April Fool’s video.
- Charter schools got slightly higher progress report grades, but much higher scores, Ken Hirsh reports.
- Insideschools found out how many seats are left at some unfilled high schools: not enough.
- Norm Scott: The Education Equality Project money trail shows mayoral control isn’t free from corruption.
- Arne Duncan officially released education stimulus money today — and guidelines about how to spend it.
- At the American Prospect, Dana Goldstein asks if merit pay isn’t a reform-y red herring.
- Pissed Off Teacher wants to change the education world, but she says she can’t do it alone.
- Rhode Island is shaping up to be the next battleground for education reform.
- The principal who praised the DOE today has done so before, NYC Public School Parents points out.
- On the UFT’s blog, a new teacher explains why he rallied for tax reform instead of relaxing.