- Bronx Science math teachers are taking their complaints to binding arbitration, JD2718 reports.
- Outcry about mayoral-control-critic-turned-Senate-school-governance-bill-sponsor Daniel Squadron.
- Peter Goodman has the history of New York State’s complicated public employee pension system.
- A report that principals are spurning ATRs, even at hiring fairs set up just for them.
- A teacher from the ATR pool is so frustrated by not working that she penned her theoretical suicide note.
- A former NYC schools beat reporter has written a book about Latino gangs on Long Island.
- Elizabeth talked about mayoral control and the Albany situation on Brian Lehrer today.
- Also on Brian Lehrer today, discussion about whether small means better when it comes to school size.
- A teacher who graded AP exams wonders why schools force unprepared students to take the tests.
- Do not, under any circumstances, take eighth-graders on a field trip after graduation, a teacher warns.
- Turning schools around is as hard as playing basketball like Michael Jordan, writes Chad Aldeman.
- Arne Duncan outlined four ways to pull off a school turnaround at a conference today.
- A 10th-year teacher finishing her first year in NYC recounts some lessons learned.
- American history textbooks cut out recent history, or at least one side of it, a study has found.
- A cautionary story? Test-tampering led to felony charges for a Georgia principal.
- The state makes teachers grade Regents exams before it decides what is considered passing. Why?
- Is it the best of times or the worst of times for charter schools? Alexander Russo ponders this question.