Remainders: Dante de Blasio on the verge of a maybe-snow day

After-school and field trips are canceled Friday due to snow, but no word yet on schools. (GS Twitter)
Dante de Blasio is angling for Dad to call a snow day, according to what might be his texts. (City Room)
A Bronx high school has the unusual distinction of offering Persian as a foreign language. (PolicyMic)
Sad news: Judy Baum, one of the city’s great schools experts, died suddenly last month. (Insideschools)
A former teacher says low pay and high stress disproportionately wear teachers of color down. (Atlantic)
Author Jonathan Lethem says former teacher Carmen Fariña was “perfect” at P.S. 29. (Capital NY)
Even if Ed Sec Arne Duncan weighed in on the city’s chancellor pick, did it really matter? (Politics K-12)
The Common Core standards create a moment of possibility for new literacy education advocates. (CJR)
A new company, Clever, has gotten its cloud-based data system for educators into 15,000 schools. (Bits)
Prospects for universal pre-K in New York City are improving even as funding remains unclear. (Nation)
A teacher who mostly sides with Diane Ravitch has ideas for how she can help students. (Chicago Now)