- Should we save children from their own backpacks? A study of overstuffed backpacks says yes.
- Pissed Off Teacher says she’s voting for the Naked Cowboy.
- A new report disputes the theory that test scores “plateau” after a state has used a test for a few years.
- Mayor Bloomberg has convinced at least some critics that he didn’t mean to compare senators to Nazis.
- An odd example of a state (Minnesota) doing better on international assessments than on state tests.
- George Miller is still trying to get “green schools” funding through Congress, now in a higher ed bill.
- Advice for new teachers from a thoughtful and slightly curmudgeonly veteran. (Via Joanne Jacobs)
- Randi Weingarten is in Portland, Ore., where the local teachers union considered leaving the AFT.
- Here in New York, a policy blogger from Portland managed to meet Norm Scott on the subway.
- Satire that hits close to home: “DOE to Ban Parents from Public Schools”
- A new book memorializes the illustrious graduates of DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx.
- A progressive think tank calls for ending salary bumps when teachers get masters degrees.
- Can education save the economy? A view from the economics perspective.
- New research is causing Jay Mathews to reevaluate his “pro-testing bias.”
- Arizona State University professor Gerald Bracey on “the new tyranny” of mayoral control.