Remainders: Ed school professors favor tenure reform

  • More than 80% of ed school professors favor making it easier to terminate teachers. (Fordham)
  • Bloomberg refused to say if he’d sign a contract that included teacher seniority rights. (Daily Politics)
  • Two charter school backers are among the NYC stars on a “40 under 40” list. (City Hall News)
  • What if ed schools only accepted pupils once they’d already tried out teaching? (Goldstein)
  • The first initiative of the George W. Bush Initiative: improve principal leadership. (Ed Week)
  • One small New York school district’s RTTT share? $55,000 a year for four years. (Flypaper)
  • A step forward, and a step back, in the race to extend Race to the Top. (Politics K12)
  • USDOE is handing $50m to 12 “no-excuses” charter management groups. (Politics K12)
  • The professors critical of edu-think tanks are starting their own… “policy center.” (Ed Week)
  • “‘Superman'” critics made a rap: “Will the Real Reformers Please Stand Up.” (Ed Notes)
  • Teacher Ruben Brosbe wonders, How do you teach students to love learning? (GS Community)
  • Teachers and students at for-profit colleges protested possible regulations. (Wash Post)