- It felt like getting hit by a tornado when SED announced the new testing schedule.
- Richard Kessler explains how arts education won in the end in the mayoral control debate.
- Selective high schools and elementary schools in Chicago are seeing lower minority enrollment.
- Is the Gates Foundation giving some states extra help in writing Race to the Top applications?
- Michele McNeil will spend tomorrow with Arne Duncan and chronicle the day via Twitter.
- She may ask how he expects both unions and charter organizers to sign off on every RttT app.
- Diane Ravitch asks, What happens if Duncan is wrong about what constitutes “reform”?
- Clay Christensen suggests some good online learning test cases, in an interview with John Merrow.
- A study (by a former ed reporter) finds that our breed often favor think-tanks over academic research.
- To understand the achievement gap, Richard Rothstein recommends a longitudinal study.
- To close the gap, Pedro Noguera says focus on “the conditions of learning.” (Instruction quality is one.)
- And Peter Murphy, of the state charter lobby, likes David Steiner. Kessler, of arts lobby, too.