Rise & Shine: Lone first day of school escapes Yankees' notice

By 
Philissa Cramer
 | August 31, 2010, 12:32pm UTC
  • The Yankees briefly offered a back-to-school promotion for a game on the first day of school. (Post)
  • Ed Sec Arne Duncan praised New York’s reforms in Albany. (GothamSchools, Daily News, Post, WNYC)
  • Last night’s Panel for Educational Policy meeting reprised conflict over test scores. (NY1)
  • An all-girls charter high school opened in Albany yesterday, the state’s first. (WNYC)
  • New Orleans parents want to see more racial diversity now that there is more school choice. (NPR)
  • Seattle and its teachers might have agreed about using test scores in evaluations. (Seattle Times)