- A Queens charter school that was unionized 16 months ago has no contract.
- A suggestion that all New York teachers should be able to decertify the union.
- The city union’s internal critics see why the KIPP teachers wouldn’t want the UFT’s help.
- Sawchuck shows that today’s debates on teacher effectiveness are kind of old, really.
- In Connecticut, debating whether to allow cell phone cameras in class.
- A teacher defends his decision to remain nonviolent, even when students thrash.
- Randi Weingarten tells The American Prospect she’s a “disrupter,” just not a “demonizer.”
- A good summary of Bell Curve author Charles Murray’s latest, by Mike Petrilli.
- My alma mater is making headlines: how budget cuts hurt an elite public school program.
- Russo catches a Newsweek anecdote showing how under-staffed the U.S. DOE is now.
- Video of Arne Duncan’s appearance on Charlie Rose, in case you missed it.
- Wendy Kopp says school districts should “recruit aggressively from all sectors.”
- A Harvard dean says Obama needs to invest in education research.
- Tom Payzant says the president should work to attract the future educators of America.