- Hoping to draw parents to the city’s pre-k programs, the DOE has turned to Craigslist.
- The city is hosting borough information fairs for soon-to-be high school applicants.
- The UFT has given Bill Thompson no reason to back four percent raises, writes NYC Educator.
- Jay Matthews writes that the Partnership for 21st Century Skills still can’t define what those skills are.
- He also profiles Gerald Bracey, a critic of national education policy who died last Tuesday.
- Arne Duncan called today for better science tests and more science curricula.
- His press office is apparently overstaffed.
- In Virginia, neither candidate for governor has offered much on how to improve education.
- A new survey shows that parents would rather talk to their kids about drugs than science.
- Del Stover looks at the evolution of the school choice movement in the U.S.
- Parents in England are pushing to open and manage their own schools.
- Eduflack: if Schwarzenegger wanted to repair CA’s economy, he should have given money to schools.
- And a high school in suburban Chicago has shut down because of swine flu.