- Ken Hirsh prepared a giant data dump about charter school finances; check out his numbers.
- Aaron Pallas warns against research findings that report progress in terms of months of learning.
- New NAEP scores are out, and younger kids are doing better. But the achievement gap isn’t gone.
- Stephen Colbert’s newest DonorsChoose promotion: Give to schools with lots of military families.
- Andy Rotherham says the Moskowitz-Weingarten matchup should be on pay-per-view.
- A teacher speculates about why his colleagues sometimes favor boys over girls, or vice versa.
- Charter schools aren’t the only ones with public lotteries. District 3 had a lottery, too.
- Dan Koretz argues for more attention to statistical validity in Obama’s education reforms.
- More city schools are reporting suspected cases of swine flu.
- The McKinsey study about GDP lost to the achievement gap is being used politically, Diane Ravitch says.
