- A proposal in the NYS Senate includes education cuts, but not direct cuts to school aid.
- “I was never a great standardized test taker,” Michelle Obama told Denver HS students.
- Education Sector hosts an online discussion about teachers’ work environments.
- A blogger sees justification for keeping the charter cap in the Arizona charter study.
- Accountable Talks says contract talks are looking like a throwback to 2005.
- Steve Koss says falling envir. survey grades signal discontented teachers and parents.
- Alexander Hoffman questions whether HS report cards tell us anything about student learning.
- David Bloomfield writes that Bloomberg can still redeem himself, if he focuses on instruction.
- RttT’s allocation amounts may have killed some of the interest among smaller states.
- Andy Smarick wishes Duncan hadn’t stayed out of the KIPP Ujima v. union fray.
- A software program may help convince students that effort will get them somewhere.
- And rural school leaders say Duncan turnaround plans won’t work outside of cities.