- Many city schools on the NCLB failing list serve many ELL’s and special ed students.
- A great run-down of what value-added teacher assessments can and can’t do. Via Eduwonk.
- Open question: What percentage of teachers need to be fired to improve urban schools?
- Rotherham says Duncan will have to work hard to ensure stimulus promotes reform.
- Here’s an excerpt from Donna Foote’s Teach for America book.
- Diane Ravitch didn’t like Obama’s speech, which she sees as calling for deregulation.
- Assigning the Times an English language learner story in its mayoral control series.
- A Gates Foundation program director seems likely to work for Arne Duncan.
- Nancy Flanagan relays the experience of one school in handling KIPP alumni.
- Probing the “immigrant paradox”: Why second-gen students do worse. Via Joanne Jacobs.
- Education philanthropy is taking a hit along with everything else.
- Dana Goldstein says Sweden’s voucher system is nothing like vouchers in America.
- Detroit’s meltdown is even affecting suburban schools there.