- The New Yorker profiles U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
- A New York City trade school is seeing an enrollment boom triggered by the recession.
- Richard Kessler asks if the recession will “correct” the overgrowth of non-profit arts organizations.
- Edwize takes a look at the special education demographics of the schools slated for closure.
- The Alliance for Quality Education has a video of school closure protests from around the city.
- The DOE plans to open a new elementary school in M.S. 44 to alleviate overcrowding.
- Large high schools have been hit especially hard by the Bloomberg administration.
- Alyson Klein looks at what Scott Brown’s election could mean for MA schools.
- Leonie Haimson says there’s strong evidence students will drop out as their schools are closed.
- In a city losing its neighborhood high schools the choice is to specialize or wear your traveling shoes.
- CBS News is running a story tonight at 11 p.m. on NYC’s rubber rooms (no link).
- Pissed Off Teacher writes about the social benefits of attending a neighborhood school.
- Doing the math: Race to the Top cost every person in the U.S. $13.
- Pennsylvania’s Ed Sect. thinks the new teachers contract will give the state’s RttT application “oomph.”
- Is it being too cynical to think Duncan’s RttT decisions will be colored by politics?
- Peter Murphy said Sens. Craig Johnson and Ruben Diaz saved the charter movement last week.
- Richmond votes out a charter school, a move that may not last long under the new governor.
- And Texas mistakenly bans a children’s book…must have been that red bird.