- New York Magazine ranks the city’s neighborhoods, naming Greenpoint #1 for its public schools.
- Michele McNeil reports that most i3 applicants are focusing on standards and turnarounds.
- NYC’s legal defense for why it has to close 19 schools refers to state and national edu policies.
- One of Miss Eyre’s middle school students reminds her what it’s like to be an adolescent.
- A teacher says the city’s failed plan to pay students for performance puts teacher merit pay in doubt.
- Chaz: principals’ power to change grades is partially to blame for the high numbers in remedial classes.
- The budget crisis is an opportunity for the city and union to give on some issues, writes a UFT member.
- Parents who helped create “meatless Mondays” at their children’s school suggest others do the same.
- LGBTQ students in Chicago are asking for the ability to formally report school staff who harass them.
- Teachers respond to the question: should HS students read aloud in class?
- Chester Finn says he’s “outraged” that China is paying for U.S. public schools to teach Mandarin.
- Thinking of parents as consumers actually gives them less power, writes Kenneth Libby.
- And FL Governor Christ says he’s going to spend the week listening, then decide on tenure bill.