- A new school violence prevention program hopes to hear the chatter that comes before the crime.
- Politics K-12 picks its Race to the Top finalists (and New York isn’t among them).
- Tom Carroll puts Florida, Louisiana and Tennessee in the top three. NY is a “likely loser,” he says.
- Andy Smarick thinks no one will get the entire list of finalists correct by guesswork.
- Teachers unions are backing the wine-in-grocery-stores proposal with an eye to where the profits will go.
- DOE charter chief Michael Duffy: before mayoral control vocal parents made the system dysfunctional.
- A francophone charter school finds it needs money to find space, and needs to find a space to get money.
- Helen Zelon says she was surprised that Harlem Children Zone isn’t tracking all of its students.
- After being saved by stimulus fund, 90 after school programs are once again in trouble.
- NYC should learn from North Carolina’s connected high schools and colleges, writes a Hofstra professor.
- For how to deal with years of fiscal belt-tightening, look to Kansas City writes Rick Hess.
- Good books and good teachers can still turn kids off reading, leaving book choice as the last resort.
- And P.S. 41 has architectural renderings of its green roof, or Greenroof Environmental Literacy Laboratory.