- Peter Murphy defends charter schools and the Hoxby study against Diane Ravitch’s criticisms…
- …While Corey Bunje Bower wonders why New York City charters might be special cases.
- In the latest City Journal, Marcus Winters argues in favor of lifting NY’s charter cap.
- The Times profiles Francis Lewis High School, more than 50 percent over-enrolled and still in demand.
- A Times op-ed contributor details how arbitrary the scoring of standardized test essay questions can be.
- The British Children’s Secretary wants to reduce the number of special ed students excluded from school.
- The Education Optimist wonders why cities would have residency requirements for teachers.
- The AFT and the NEA have taken opposite stances on the “21st century skills” debate.
- Early Ed Watch’s Lisa Guernsey takes lessons from Tools of the Mind to her own children.
- Quick and the Ed says that improving standardized tests is possible but an “immense” challenge.
- Ed Notes Online questions D.C. teachers’ confidence in Michelle Rhee.
- And InsideSchools takes us to one of the first PTA meetings of the year.