- 2,000 needy Brooklyn students are going back to school with new backpacks, courtesy of the NAACP
- Tony Avella says he would eliminate the School Construction Authority.
- A teacher says the first days of school are exciting, but also “intensely painful and anxiety inducing”
- Another reports that teaching in a charter school means more work and less time to do it in.
- Gov. Schwarzenegger is suddenly rushing to make CA eligible for RttT money.
- Kevin Carey: if Ravitch thinks what Duncan is doing is illegal, she’s got it wrong.
- Eduflack analyzes the surprising choices the Gates Foundation made in narrowing its list.
- A study shows school budget cuts are prompting more parents to volunteer (via Insideschools)
- Have $10 left on your Target gift card? You can give it to a school.
- A former MIT prof. thinks Obama’s online course idea will make too little money go too far.
- Jim Calantjis explains how the new mayoral control law will affect school leadership teams.
- And if GS had a formal wish list, it’d probably look like Thompson’s.
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