Remainders: Park Slope parents aim to train parent associations

  • Park Slope parents have launched a group to train parent organizations across the city. (Insideschools)
  • A parent wondering about the legality of Saturday detention learns that it’s allowed. (Insideschools)
  • Three alternatives to AYP that the 11 states applying for NCLB waivers have proposed. (Flypaper)
  • On the 48th anniversary of JFK’s assassination, a tally of the schools named for him. (Answer Sheet)
  • A 2o-question survey to determine whether a principal is operating in the 21st century. (I <3 EdTech)
  • New Orleans’ Recovery School District, made up of charters, is centralizing admissions. (The Lens)
  • An exploration of why most states’ new teacher evaluation rubrics have 4-5 categories. (Shanker Blog)
  • The complexity of teaching might be something that sets humans apart from other species. (The Loom)
  • School districts are concerned that the failure of a “Supercommittee” is bad budget news. (Politics K-12)
  • A city teacher who criticized Teach for America says the program needs an extra year. (Gary Rubinstein)
  • China’s plan to assure college grads get jobs is to limit what they study. (China Daily via Hechinger)
  • During his visit to a school’s Thanksgiving feast, Chancellor Walcott talked nutrition. (SchoolBook)
  • A Thanksgiving-time “National Day of Listening” on Friday calls for thanking a teacher. (StoryCorps)
  • And we won’t be publishing tomorrow as Thanksgiving prep gets underway. Have a great weekend!