Skip to main contentRemainders: On teacher training day, ballroom dancing, photography
By | June 5, 2009, 4:42am UTC - Norm Scott says that his dissatisfaction with Randi on mayoral control predated the Post op/ed.
- A Bronx teacher compares a sign at a prison to a sign inside his school.
- Pissed Off Teacher spent her P.D. day foregoing ballroom dancing and taking photos instead.
- The New York teachers union is urging members to fight threats to its pension plan.
- Arne Duncan’s listening tour will move to Newark tomorrow, to a charter school.
- Missed today’s congressional hearing on charter schools? Twitter will catch you up.
- In his testimony, Steve Barr of Green Dot suggested Congress make private schools illegal.
- Joel Klein’s favorite Clay Christensen opposes putting money into struggling schools. (Via Joanne Jacobs.)
- A Columbus, Ohio, plan will use value-added data about teachers to pay high performers more.
- Michelle Obama explains to NBC’s Brian Williams why she likes to meet with young students.
- Richard Dreyfuss is advertising a civics curriculum by religiously avoiding the word civics.
- Apparently Rothko was a kindergarten teacher! This kind of explains everything.
- The Gates Foundation lost nearly $10 billion since 2007. Its CEO says the foundation needs improvement.
- Established education groups like school boards are resisting efforts to send stimulus money to pre-K.
- Detroit could get mayoral control of schools, if a state lawmaker has his way. (Via Flypaper.)
