Skip to main contentRemainders: New Race to the Top just for little kids and losers
By | May 26, 2011, 12:30am UTC - The new round of Race to the Top will focus on early childhood and last year’s losers. (Politics K-12)
- A former city charter schools official has decamped to boost schools in Abu Dhabi. (Teachers College)
- Parents parked a school bus at City Hall and invited Mayor Bloomberg to lobby for funding. (EdVox)
- Norm Scott offers a gloss from the left of tomorrow’s charter school rally. (Ed Notes)
- Al Shanker’s widow condemns Joel Klein for hijacking Shanker’s legacy. (Shanker Blog)
- A teacher has drafted a letter to the Regents about the continuing surge in testing. (The Jose Vilson)
- San Diego is trying to identify “quality schools” so it can make more of them. (Voice of San Diego)
- A political scientist says the courts haven’t been effective in improving schools. (School Law Blog)
- A new report says special education needs to be updated for the 21st century. (On Special Ed)
- Nationally, special education identification rates are falling. Not so in New York. (Flypaper)
- For autistic children, sports are challenging but no less fun, a mother writes. (Insideschools)
- Wake County, N.C., is contemplating two ways to integrate schools without using race. Flypaper)