Remainders: Florida hedges on adopting shared PARCC tests

  • The schools chief in Florida, a Common Core leader, questioned the PARCC tests. (State Impact)
  • The gifted grading fiasco in NYC highlighted the arbitrary nature in which we identify students. (Time)
    To become a political progressive, Al Shanker had to think like a educational conservative. (Shanker)
  • A suitcase that turned out to be empty caused a Williamsburg high school to evacuate. (DNAInfo)
  • It’s been two weeks, but the Michelle Rhee cheating scandal in D.C. still has legs. (Learning Matters)
  • A study of teachers’ web logs reveals they don’t spend much time looking at student data. (AEFP)
  • On UFT election day, our editor offered some outsider analysis about the internal politics. (Schoolbook)
  • Across the nation charter school teachers are unionizing, most recently in Los Angeles. (LaborNotes)
  • Parents are upset that the city is proposing to move their school into a new neighborhood. (Tribeca Trib)
  • A case for why the current reform policies will succumb to a powerful counter-revolution. (The Atlantic)