- Investment bank chairman Roger Altman is now co-chairman of New Visions for Public Schools.
- The city’s report on arts education was more like a study of cognitive dissonance, Richard Kessler writes.
- McDonalds has higher standards for its meat than the U.S. gov’t has for school lunches.
- A new report offers a framework for administrations and unions to discuss how to use data.
- Ed in the Apple offers a how-to guide for saving your school from the brink of extinction.
- Norm chronicles the goings-on at our party on Wednesday night.
- Jay Mathews looks at some reasons Montgomery high schools didn’t make the U.S. News list.
- Don’t hesitate to call home, a blogger writes, the only alternative is chaos in your classroom.
- Andy Smarick says for Duncan, union contracts are a Rubicon he will not cross.
- A California school board canceled an anti-gay bullying curriculum after it had been approved.
- And the Spencer Foundation is launching a grant program to study how teachers use data.