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By | September 21, 2011, 11:33pm UTC - Among winners of a community journalism grant: A watchdog for New Orleans charter schools. (Knight)
- A concrete example of how the “gamification of society” and schools could pay off. (Talking Points Memo)
- A charter school that Oprah Winfrey supports is accused of not serving disabled students. (Bloomberg)
- The turnaround process at one Philadelphia school included five principals in a year. (Notebook)
- Children who came here illegally do worse in school than other immigrants. (Inside School Research)
- Members of the Absent Teacher Reserve who requested a UFT meeting are getting one. (NYC ATR)
- A teacher dusts of his high-school Spanish to communicate with parents during orientation. (Mr. Foteah)
- An argument that fixing schools will require substantial changes to housing policy. (Matt Yglesias)
- Evan Osnos: China isn’t ready to embrace failure, but it’s less obsessed with achievement. (New Yorker)
- The rock band R.E.M. announced it’s breaking up today, 10 years after a “Sesame Street” gig. (YouTube)