Remainders: A principal scrambles to explain her "F"

By 
Elizabeth Green
 | October 7, 2010, 11:13pm UTC
  • The principal of an F school has held two meetings with parents in four days. (NYT Local)
  • Will the Bronx teacher who was a sex worker take $60,000 to pose nude? (Observer)
  • Are “education transformers” the new “education reformers”? (Ed is Watching)
  • Bloomberg called a mandated paid sick leave bill in Albany “disastrous.” (WSJ Metropolis)
  • Amid speculation about her next move, Michelle Rhee won’t comment “on the record.” (WashPost)
  • Jay Greene and his son are enjoying learning online at Khan Academy. (Jay Greene)
  • A New Jersey law might bar Christie and Booker from steering Zuckerberg’s grant. (Star Ledger)
  • The “Widget Effect” team has a new report with guidelines for how to evaluate teachers. (TNTP)
  • Finnish mathematicians aren’t sure the country’s top standing on the PISA test is good. (Flypaper)
  • An activist says the real problem with “Superman” is it doesn’t depict actual teaching. (HuffPost)
  • In Denver, the teacher-evaluation-building process gets overly bureaucratic. (Ed News Colorado)