- Former NY Times’ Style editor Trip Gabriel has a new assignment: education enterprise pieces.
- Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer is pushing for meatless Mondays in schools.
- When is the AFT going to act on Randi Weingarten’s teacher quality speech? Eduflack wonders.
- InsideSchools profiled new high schools that are opening next school year.
- Robert Pondiscio runs into a former student being questioned by cops and walks away with great news.
- NYSUT is trying to woo charter schools, while lobbying for cuts to their funding, write Peter Murphy.
- Arne Duncan says governors agree with his plan to link Title I funding and adoption of higher standards.
- James Merriman says the UFT ignores district v. district inequity to focus on charter v. district differences.
- Enough with the redundant acronyms for different kinds of students, writes Linda Perlstein.
- Ron Isaac writes that if teachers are to be compared to doctors, they should have as much control.
- Jay Mathews looks at a couple of new ways to rank high schools.
- A Connecticut-based education group finds the state’s RttT application is full of holes.
- And just when you’d put Race to the Top news on mute, here’s the high school edition.