Skip to main contentRemainders: Next Race to the Top program will be for districts
By | January 19, 2012, 12:58am UTC - Ed Sec Arne Duncan wants the next Race to the Top to be for individual school districts. (Politics K-12)
- Highlights of a wide-ranging Duncan interview about accountability and commitment. (Politics K-12)
- Duncan is also pretty in pink as GQ Magazine’s 32nd most powerful person in Washington, D.C. (GQ)
- A city principal outlines tension between differentiation and one-size-fits-all accountability. (SchoolBook)
- A new report concludes that wraparound social services help teachers focus more on instruction. (CAP)
- Students and teachers across the world today ran into trouble with Wikipedia’s protest blackout. (Gawker)
- Hillary Lustick: Planning ahead is a pleasure, but teachers don’t have time for that. (GS Community)
- A city teacher ponders the political situation and decides to stick to his students. (Music and Beyond)
- What if we swapped the words “needs improvement” for “failing” when talking schools? (Eduwonk)
- A “distinguished educator” promised to help lead Buffalo’s schools hasn’t yet arrived. (School Zone Blog)
- A charter school’s “week of service” includes hearing senior citizens’ civil rights stories. (Bed-Stuy Patch)
- The design for a Stockholm “free school” is meant to encourage community and curiosity. (Architizer)
- Sounding the alarm that black students’ academic achievement has regressed by decades. (Black News)
