- We collected links to hundreds of stories in our year-in-review of the city schools. (GothamSchools)
- Readers’ favorite stories from 2011 about education politics and policy wonkery. (Politics K-12)
- City parents collect the best and worst education events of the last year. (NYC P.S. Parents)
- Mike Petrilli batted .500 on last year’s education predictions, Cathie Black included. (Flypaper)
- Predictions for a dozen stories that education readers are likely to see in 2012. (Rick Hess Straight Up)
- Some self-evident predictions for 2012’s top stories, and some unorthodox ones, too. (Answer Sheet)
- A list of the 10 most memorable stories about issues facing and relating to teachers. (EdWeek)
Also:
- A school-year schedule if Joel Klein’s friends’ children ran the Department of Education. (New Yorker)
- A flack for New Haven’s schools resigned after being caught threatening a reporter. (N.H. Independent)
- Praise for a new member of the Panel for Educational Policy, from a frequent critic. (NYC P.S. Parents)
- Six experts (but no teachers) take on the question of whether teachers are overpaid. (Room for Debate)
- A teacher says she spent break distracted by, but not obsessed with, her students’ issues. (SchoolBook)
- A 27-year-old assistant principal tweets from the hallways of his D.C. school. (Washington Post)
- Imagining the debate over the Danielson Framework during teacher evaluation talks. (Jose Vilson)
- A teacher used her break to reassess a major chore both she and her students dislike. (Core Knowledge)
- A summary of the new steps the DOE is taking to managing crowding at some schools. (Insideschools)
- An interview with Patricia Clearly, a college counselor at Stuyvesant HS. (College Admission Book)