- Gov. Paterson isn’t exactly calling the state’s RttT plan bad, but he won’t call it good either.
- Welcome to Bellwether Education, a new org to help education reformers via Rotherham.
- A UFT blogger says Silver’s charter school bill didn’t have the “poison pills” critics said it had.
- Sen. Craig Johnson’s payback for backing Gov. Paterson’s charter school bill was swift.
- It’s the one-year anniversary of Arne Duncan’s swearing-in: a look at how the year has gone.
- Some of the schools on the state’s replacement list recently earned A’s and B’s on city report cards.
- Richard Kessler reports back from a meeting between the USDOE and arts education leaders.
- A high school student says she’s turning his brain off in order to pass the Regents.
- Clara Hemphill answers more NYTimes readers’ questions about high school admissions.
- Some UFT members are pleased with Mulgrew’s bullishness, but it’s all style writes Norm.
- Deborah Meier says the AFT should lead a campaign to clear up the myths about test scores.
- Philly gets a new teachers contract with pay raises and performance bonuses.
- A Sidwell Friends teacher has been charged with sexual abusing a minor — not his students.
- Chicago’s school CEO tweaked Duncan’s turnaround policy and may get better results.
- And a judge in Texas ordered truant students to carry GPS devices.