Remainders: Novel ideas about school siting, from a teacher

Diane Ravitch: Contrary to what Joel Klein thinks, education is not the civil rights issue of our time.
Information is trickling out about G&T admissions, but it’s not fast enough for some families.
Everyone’s looking for the education angle on Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor.
A teacher at an overcrowded school has some unorthodox proposals for where new schools should go.
Read the guide to the rubber room, thanks to a reassigned teacher who scanned it in.
Pondering those subway ads that promote the city’s public schools.
A teacher who started the year with high hopes is counting down the days until summer vacation.
Did incoming interim deputy chancellor Santi Taveras struggle in a teaching position long ago?
At least one school nurse might not have provided the best defense against swine flu.
Analysis of the mayoral control fight that invokes the words of disgraced Providence mayor Buddy Cianci.
Diagnoses of teaching disabilities are on the rise. (It’s the Onion, people! A joke!)
Slate reports that the College Board isn’t trying to help students; it’s trying to make money.
Baltimore is trying to double the number of Teach For America corps members there.
Leo Casey explains why it’s a mistake to associate teacher unionism with student performance.
In a Brooklyn district, a fight over charter school siting, with a dispatch from a parent leader.
A call for more detailed school budget data, posted in more transparent ways.