- Tom Carroll writes: New Haven’s new teachers contract is “not that remarkable at all.”
- We still don’t know if teacher quality is more important than outside-school factors.
- The strength of a school’s chapter leader says a lot about the school’s culture.
- Bloomberg and Thompson’s fixation on the Board of Ed. days could numb voters.
- Sol Stern: If Obama wants an education miracle, he should follow the work of E.D. Hirsch.
- Malcolm Gladwell thinks city schools could work better if they were run likes sports teams.
- A teacher who refused to attend the Peer Intervention Program gets the charge dismissed.
- Corey Bower says national standards aren’t a silver bullet, but they’re not useless either.
- Michigan seems poised to take a survival of the fittest approach to lifting its charter cap.
- D.C. students aren’t impressed with their schools’ sex education curriculum.
- NYSUT says it’s lost 6,500 members to the recession, and can’t afford to lose more.
- Here are four states that are making painful school cuts, post-stimulus.
- Duncan is speaking at Teachers College tomorrow, perhaps he’ll mention NY and RttT?
- And here’s one way to get a police officer to send students scurrying back to class.