- A look inside one day in the rubber room, from a teacher who is serving time there.
- It wasn’t hard for Washington Post readers to suggest ways to spend $100 billion on improving schools.
- An Insideschools review shows that city charter schools have lower-than-average numbers of needy kids.
- Alexander Russo twittered his way through the NewSchools Venture Fund summit today.
- Ed Sec Arne Duncan has poached one of NewSchools’ top officials to run his own Race to the Top fund.
- A look inside two Ohio schools: One KIPP school and one school where kids saw a horse have surgery.
- A (break-craving) teacher wonders if closing all schools might be a more prudent way to deal with the flu.
- Diane Ravitch continues the Geoff Canada-as-Broader-Bolder-icon meme, on Bridging Differences.
- Chicago doesn’t have a freeze on outside hires, and teachers say they can tell at hiring fairs.
- City Comptroller William Thompson said the city should be doing more to spread swine flu information.