- The state-city gap is wider in untested Social Studies and science, Aaron Pallas finds.
- Using popular films to teach history can be a double-edged sword, a study finds.
- Sawchuck offers a cheat sheet review of the NEA’s leaked alternative-pay memo.
- Kevin Carey finds the NEA’s position on value-added a matter of “willful misunderstanding.”
- If the “public option” is health care’s big issue, in education it’s the “private option.”
- Arne Duncan is not part of a federal investigation into the Chicago Board of Ed.
- Skepticism that Race to the Top’s $350m for making better tests will innovate assessment.
- Randi Weingarten tells Time Magazine her problem with bake sales paying for teachers.
- A principal offers 10 suggestions for new teachers starting at new schools this fall.
- What if college lasted for just three years?
- After trying Bush, an early college high school pleads for help from President Obama.