- Jay Mathews nominates Randi Weingarten to replace Michelle Rhee in D.C., if Rhee must go.
- It’s now legal to evaluate Wisconsin teachers based on their students’ test scores.
- The four-word explanation: Race to the Top, which has states everywhere changing their laws.
- Richard Kessler explains why it’s a no-brainer to partner with the UFT.
- The final edition of the Bracey Report finds that mayoral control hurt democracy in New York.
- A school turnaround story in the White House’s backyard (and my hometown!).
- States are about to apply for Phase 2 of the stimulus’s stop-school-cuts fund.
- Rotherham is betting that “special interest groups” (ahem, teacher unions) will squash an NCLB rewrite.
- Rick Hess thinks Arne Duncan should not have lobbied for health care reform.
- Duncan visited Harlem Children’s Zone today, but the investment in replication is small.
- Weeding out bad teachers won’t be enough to improve teacher quality across the board, a report argues.
- A view from Sunset Park Prep is featured at The Quick and the Ed today.
- A push to raise the bar on what constitutes “evidence” when judging I3 innovation grant submissions.
- Ask Judy suggests an alternative to taking your daughter out to lunch during the school day.
- And teachers and parents say PS 204 in Morris Heights is falling apart.