Rise & Shine: State tests don't stand up to Daily News analysis

FROM NEW YORK CITY:

• Charter school operator Eva Moskowitz wants to open three new schools next year. (Post)
• The Daily News analyzed several years’ state math tests and found that they have gotten easier.
• Comptroller Thompson refused the DOE’s deal with an expensive supplies vendor. (Daily News)
• Most schools where kids are being paid for their grades saw higher-than-average test score gains. (Post)
• Sheldon Silver says he’d consider fixed terms for school board members. (Downtown Express)
• A professor who influenced Joel Klein’s reforms says the chancellor is doing a good job. (Daily News)
• Mayor Bloomberg made sure there was a possibility of a gifted program in every district. (Post)
• At one of the new selective schools the mayor opened, everyone studies Latin. (Post)
• Many city schools, public and private, require students to volunteer before they graduate. (Daily News)
• A nonprofit squash program helps keep some city kids on the path to college. (Times)

AND BEYOND:

• The Syracuse Post-Standard says the state comptroller should be able to audit charter schools.
• Jay Mathews’ new list ranks schools where many kids take, but don’t pass, AP tests. (Washington Post)
• Bob Herbert writes about a KIPP school in North Carolina, where every senior is going to college. (Times)
• From mayoral-control-bound Nashville, a report on mayoral control’s mixed effects. (The Tennessean)
• Houston is looking for a superintendent like Joel Klein. (Houston Chronicle)
• Former NYC chancellor Harold Levy has five ideas to make colleges and universities better. (Times)
• An Ohio school district cancelled graduation after most students were involved in a cheating ring. (AP)
• A $100 personal computer lets students work independently in class. (Christian Science Monitor)