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By | June 4, 2011, 12:15am UTC - To boost quality, urban schools are focusing on “strategic hiring” of teachers. (Ed News Colorado)
- Jonathan Alter attacks Diane Ravitch, a critic of Mayor Bloomberg, on Bloomberg‘s news site.
- A collection of impassioned defenses of Ravitch from ed experts and city parents. (NYC P.S. Parents)
- City schools are so full of new technology you’d never know there was a budget crisis. (Brooklyn Rail)
- The UFT doesn’t seem always to advertise stories about persecuted chapter teachers. (Ed Notes)
- A guide to getting a great high school arts education completes a series that starts early. (Dewey 21C)
- Downtown parents are upset about the Department of Education’s school siting priorities. (DNAInfo)
- What a teacher never expected he’d feel about teaching. (The Reflective Educator)
- Retired tennis star Andre Agassi is going to help urban charter schools get buildings. (AP)
- Tension over testing between the state and local levels, as seen in NYC, was inevitable. (Teacher Beat)
- Teachers who collaborate well are being split apart next year, one of them reports. (Tween Teacher)
- Following up with the handball prodigy twins who were banned from school play this year. (Times)
- Eighth-graders at a city private school have designed the classroom of the future. (T Magazine)
- A teacher describes the experience of being bullied by her colleagues. (Connected Principals)
- To which a city teacher responds with encouraging words, and a call to action. (Mr. Foteah)
- Thank you for your thank you, Brent. We love linking to thoughtful pieces by city teachers. (Brent Nycz)