- Did Bloomberg’s NAEP prediction come true? Beth Fertig looks at whether the success is “real.”
- Flypaper looks at Cleveland, which really bombed the NAEP test.
- If you’re looking for NAEP sparknotes, they’re on the Core Knowledge blog.
- Defective test booklets have D.C. students retaking high school admissions tests.
- A former assemblyman and author of the original mayoral control law is making a career change.
- Richard Kessler is holding out hope that Duncan will insert arts education in the RttT guidelines.
- District 20’s CEC will vote on a rezoning plan tomorrow that some fear will reduce student diversity.
- The Queens Courier raised $1,500 for the Fund for Public Schools.
- Just as NCLB reauthorization nears, a new report is questioning its turnaround strategy.
- Seeing the “to be closed” list grow, a teacher wonders whether the system sets teachers up to fail.
- GOOD wonders if it’s, yes, good for hedge funders to love charter schools.
- Detroit gets a tentative contract that has New-Haven-contract-like elements.
- Sean Cavanagh, who wrote the Curriculum Matters blog, is leaving EdWeek.
- Republicans are not happy that the RttT guidelines push common standards on states.
- Jeff Branzburg’s comic strip lays out the history of technology in classrooms.
- And our party is tomorrow and if you’re reading this you should come.