Remainders: Obama's back-to-school speech igniting conflict

A technology expert is heading up a team of 30 city businessmen to advise on vocational schools.
Advocates for Children surveyed city candidates on education issues.
USDOE’s lesson plans for Obama’s back-to-school speech no longer tell kids to “help the president.”
City schools won’t have to grapple with whether to show the speech, because they won’t have opened.
Rick Hess says Obama’s education department is just as insular as it was under the Bush administration.
Going back to school shouldn’t end children’s fun, according to a leading champion of playtime.
A veteran teacher has beginning-of-the-year advice for newbies, whom he tells to work hard.
Brooklyn police officers are getting ready to crack down on start-of-school teen-on-teen crime.
International Walk To School Day is Oct. 7; New Yorkers are invited to create PSAs for the occasion.
If you’re not among the masses spurning back-to-school shopping, visit the Queens Center Mall.
A teacher suggests that “resource rooms” did better at helping students when they actually had rooms.
A California parent (and former reporter) vows to volunteer in her daughter’s school, and a needier one.
A teacher unearthed sweet sentiments from her former students while setting up her classroom.