- Deputy Chancellor Eric Nadelstern says two-thirds of city teachers need improvement.
- For the second year, parents associations can pay for non-union classroom aides.
- Bloomberg says he’ll stay out of state races, except to support charter-backer Sen. Craig Johnson.
- A son remembers his mother’s extraordinary year teaching a gifted class before they were common.
- Arthur Goldstein wins his case to lower class sizes at Francis Lewis HS and the DOE ignores the decision.
- What’s in a 3? A teacher grades students’ state English tests and finds the standards are too lax.
- PTA fund raisers are becoming more important as city schools’ budgets take a hit.
- Elana Kagan could become Hunter College HS’s second most well-known alumna.
- Miss Brave describes the seven students who are causing all the trouble in her class.
- After watching another teacher’s class, a Bronx teacher argues for required observations.
- Michael Regnier: charter school critics’ talking points are like Yogi-isms.
- On Wednesday mornings, P.S. 29 students bound into school for “cool clusters.”
- Should “reforms” go into the jobs bill? Education experts weigh in.
- The Hechinger Institute launched a new national education news website: Hechinger Report.
- And WNYC’s Beth Fertig is looking for your city school memorabilia.