Skip to main contentRemainders: Analyzing 80-year-old, discarded student data
By | September 19, 2011, 11:30pm UTC - A first look at hundreds of 80-year-old report cards discarded by a now-defunct Manhattan school. (Slate)
- Education isn’t the only area where private donations are making up for low city funds. (Gotham Gazette)
- A charter school parent organizer lands on a list of New York’s “Forty under 40.” (City Hall News)
- The latest issue of a journal about scientific research is all about early childhood education. (Science)
- A city teacher who has her smallest class ever says she is able to get through all her plans. (Miss Brave)
- As information grows and enthusiasm spreads, more countries are attempting school reform. (Economist)
- Praise for Community section contributor Mark Anderson‘s unusual focus on curriculum. (Flypaper)
- Jay Mathews: Sports, which most students play, could be key to improving high schools. (Class Struggle)
- A teacher asks for a little more from a book that turns education research into instructions. (Jose Vilson)
- Adjusting to the changes brought by the Common Core’s arrival is exhausting. (No Sleep ‘Til Summer)
- A history of “outrageous” cheating scandals, both debunked and confirmed. (ProPublica)
- The principal of a school focusing on the film industry laments a dearth of “good systems.” (Schoolbook)
- National teachers unions are among donors to Congress’s “supercommittee” on debt. (Politics K-12)