Skip to main contentRemainders: The expensive national war over Common Core
By | September 19, 2013, 10:35pm UTC - A pricey battle is being waged nationally over Common Core to win public hearts and minds. (Politico)
- A teacher finds that her advice for students isn’t followed until it comes from an outsider. (GS Community)
- Tennessee’s evaluations are beginning to dabble with assessments for arts educators. (Ed Week)
- The city teachers union won’t talk to GOP mayoral nominee Joe Lhota about education. (Politicker)
- Most schools spend more per student on sports than math, but some are tweaking the formula. (Atlantic)
- One in five New Yorkers, asked to identify Bill de Blasio in a lineup, picked Arne Duncan.(NYMag)
- Research suggests that “redshirting,” or holding young kids back, doesn’t help them. (New Yorker, Slate)
- Diane Ravitch says she knows a mole in the NYC DOE who says the city’s data can’t be trusted. (DR)
- Dyslexic students read faster on e-readers with a larger font than they did on paper. (The Chart)
- A student-powered photography project presents over 4,000 images of American “hometowns.” (Lens)
- Using pictures and captions, students have creative takes on their school lunches. (Buzzfeed)