Remainders: Chicago union chief refines her bat mitzvah speech

  • Chicago union chief Karen Lewis’s bat mitzvah speech ties education politics into Torah. (Shalom Rav)
  • A Swiss school’s lesson in technology use: Focus on what goes into the iPad, not what comes out. (Slate)
  • The first version of the test that later became the SAT included a section on “artificial language.” (Atlantic)
  • Across the country, day care programs are basically unregulated, sometimes dangerous. (New Republic)
  • Haimson and Ravitch present the education view in a review of Mayor Bloomberg’s New York. (Nation)
  • The UFT endorsed Corey Johnson to fill the City Council seat Christine Quinn is leaving. (Daily Politics)
  • The Republican National Committee is taking a stand against the Common Core standards. (Slate)
  • A city teacher gets why a teacher might ask students to write like they were Nazis. (View from the Bronx)
  • Who created Michelle Rhee? Was it Rhee, we, they, or U? John Merrow wants to know. (Taking Note)
  • David Coleman, Common Core creator, is among the 100 most influential people in the world. (TIME)
  • Sol Stern questions if New York’s education leaders even understands the Common Core. (City Journal)