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By | April 19, 2013, 12:30am UTC - 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)