Skip to main contentRise & Shine: Arne Duncan's back-to-school bus hits N.Y. today
By | August 30, 2010, 11:51am UTC - Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s back-to-school bus tour visits Albany today. (Washington Post)
- Duncan makes his argument for why states should release data on individual teachers. (Daily News)
- Teachers aren’t happy about the release of value-added rankings for 6,000 of them. (L.A. Times)
- Teachers whose students score high are rarely recognized or emulated. (L.A. Times)
- New Jersey’s fired education chief says he isn’t to blame for losing Race to the Top. (WSJ)
- The Times says states shouldn’t stop reforming education now that Race to the Top is over.
- Twelve of the state’s 16 persistently dangerous schools are in New York City. (Post, Daily News)
- Teachers flock to back-to-school shopping at Barclay School Supplies in Brooklyn. (Times)
- The new principal of the largest high school in Portland, Ore., is from New York City. (Oregonian)
- Five years after Katrina, charter schools dominate New Orleans. (Christian Science Monitor, WSJ)
- Online credit recovery is attractive because it’s fast and inexpensive. (Chicago Tribune)
- D.C. schools closed the achievement gap less this year than in recent years. (Washington Post)