- Do female valedictorians sell themselves short after high school? A study suggests yes.
- The UFT YouTube channel features teachers from Queens’ MS 8 celebrating their principal’s departure.
- “I hate charter schools,” a Texas politician said. Politics K-12 urged him to get the memo.
- Teacher JD2718 wonders how the swine flu epidemic will affect schools’ progress report grades.
- Speaking of swine flu, eight schools will remain closed tomorrow, but attendance rates look to be up.
- Residents of Co-op City in the Bronx protested against a charter school siting in their neighborhood.
- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is one of four governors not pledging to pursue national standards.
- A little ditty to help the kiddies remember how to be good test-takers.
- Today was math test score day, but Aaron Pallas says it’s not too late to look closely at the ELA results.
- A takedown of school discipline policy in Baltimore under DOE expat Andres Alonso.
- In England, the debate du jour is whether children should study Latin.
- Teachers’ discretionary supply budgets are on the chopping block, again.
- The most successful countries teach lots of math and science … and literature and art and music and …
- Why doesn’t tenure work to sort teachers? Peter Goodman suggests politics is to blame.
- A how-to guide for teaching teens about sex and responsibility, from Staten Island’s McKee High School.