- A bill to help states forestall teacher layoffs may have more than just Republican opposition.
- Parents in Brooklyn’s District 13 are petitioning the city to add more elementary school options.
- Teachers who have been in the rubber room found last night’s “Law and Order” finale sympathetic.
- The Onion AV Club says the episode broke with L&O routine and ended too “overheated.”
- The Daily Politics has a partial list of Bloomberg’s public school graduation engagements.
- Diane Ravitch lists her top 10 reasons why states and districts should tune out Race to the Top.
- In the community section, Alexander Hoffman questions the question: why bother with merit pay?
- Leonie Haimson and Mona Davids argue against the bill being touted by charter school supporters.
- Econ class in Texas comes with an emphasis on the “free market and its benefits.”
- Illinois wants to make teachers learn more and get higher test scores before entering the classroom.
- Fordham’s Andy Smarick says goodbye before heading off to be NJ’s Dept. Edu Commish.
- A new report from Ball State Univ. finds the states are underfunding charter schools.
- And HS grades are a good predictor of college success, but only if the grades mean anything.