Remainders: Parents suggest high school admissions remedies

  • Parents suggest ways to simplify the city’s labyrinthine high school admissions process. (Insideschools)
  • The New York Times’ education editor faces attendance issues as a P.S. 11 class parent. (SchoolBook)
  • A teacher outlines five contradictions he sees in the teaching strategy of “differentiation.” (Jose Vilson)
  • About a third of disabled New Yorkers live in poverty, where they are largely stuck. (Gotham Gazette)
  • Aiming to encourage more conversation, CNN has launched a new education blog. (Schools of Thought)
  • The Walton Foundation donated $25 million to help KIPP charters double enrollment. (Denver Post)
  • Eleven states officially filed first-round applications for No Child Left Behind waivers. (Politics K-12)
  • An upstart force among Los Angeles’s teachers wants a referendum on its platform. (Teacher Beat)
  • A charter school founder continues her series on applying for authorization. (Charter Notebook)
  • In Germany, a kindergarten building is shaped like a kitten, complete with a tail slide. (ohdeedoh)