- Clara Hemphill, founder of Insideschools.org, is answering questions at the City Room blog this week.
- Linda Perlstein’s description of “the TFA of journalism” sounds a lot like something we know well.
- About 40 states submitted applications for Race to the Top funds by the deadline today.
- A student was stabbed at University Neighborhood High School on the Lower East Side today.
- The Education Writers Association is eliminating dues and has a job opening at the top.
- The EWA also launched a new Web site today, EdMoney.org, to track school stimulus spending.
- Alexander Hoffman weighs in on the semantics of the charter cap debate.
- Miss Eyre says she wishes her school’s upcoming quality review would review students, too.
- PS 15 in Red Hook is gearing up for another round of fighting against PAVE Academy charter school.
- A top education official will serve a stint in the parks department as part of a management exercise.
- If you didn’t want to go to Yale before, you will when you see the college’s musical pitch.
- At the National Journal, the experts are discussing the future of the AFT’s teacher evaluation initiative.
- A fourth-grader wonders how to deal with his teacher’s two-minute tests.
- On Martin Luther King Day, musician John Legend channeled Joel Klein on school reform.
- Peter Goodman says there are good teachers at schools slated for closure, too.