- Last month’s Ed Sector report about charter schools’ scaling-up problem might have been watered down.
- American students don’t know much about the American Revolution.
- Here’s a state-by-state roundup of who’s doing what to get Race to the Top funds.
- Leonie Haimson says the newest school closures reflect the city’s failures, not the schools’.
- The actor who played Omar on “The Wire” used a fake address to get into Westinghouse HS. (Via Russo)
- A teacher at Manhattan’s PS 241 describes the current state of the embattled school.
- Mildly Melancholy wonders if it’s not time for a December doldrums mental health day.
- A major anti-charter school effort is brewing in Buffalo, but Peter Murphy says the Regents will ignore it.
- New Action’s December position paper says recent years have been “a disaster” for UFT members.
- Too late for this year’s eighth-graders, the DOE is launching a “High School Ambassadors” program.
- Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer looks to be laying the groundwork for a big 2013 campaign.