- An teacher describes the antics of the dysfunctional hiring team at her school. The story involves bacon.
- Pissed Off Teacher wonders how an extended day could be good for already overstressed students.
- Aaron Pallas takes a deeper look at what the country’s essentially flat NAEP scores might mean.
- Some students who were discharged from high school say they didn’t really enroll elsewhere.
- Andy Smarick says he just doesn’t get why Jon Schnur isn’t joining the US Department of Education.
- On Edwize, a teacher writes about the importance of making sure children have a good breakfast.
- A conference at Pace University today focused on whether charter schools are the answer.
- Chester Finn says Joel Klein is one reason the country needs an independent education audit agency.
- There aren’t too many high achievers in American schools, Kevin Carey says. There aren’t enough.
- A Queens teacher sheds some light on what happens once teachers are sent to the rubber room.
- At Eduwonk, another voice in the chorus calling for more study of how HS graduates do in college.