- The Times-Union has a breakdown of what Paterson’s budget cuts will do to each school district.
- Arthur Goldstein wonders why the DOE considers Francis Lewis successful at class size reduction.
- A British study says that children’s formal schooling should not begin until the age of 6.
- NYSUT wants the state legislature to reject the school cuts.
- Mulgrew jokingly told new UFT chapter leaders they’ve got the “I can’t win job.”
- The UFT’s leadership shot down a call to endorse Thompson at the delegate assembly.
- David Bloomfield calls new state standards on graduation a “ticking time bomb” for the city.
- The president of the national teacher’s colleges association hopes Duncan’s next speech is more inspiring.
- Science students benefit when teachers spend summers working on academic research, a study says.
- Corey Bunje Bower wants to set Nick Kristof straight about the achievement gap.
- Diane Ravitch believes there is “something rotten in the state education department.”
- While Robert Pondiscio wonders if anger over NAEP scores will mean the end of test-driven accountability.
- And a senior at LaGuardia High School is the city’s first Youth Poet Laureate.