Skip to main contentRemainders: Philly "school reform" includes $1 million turnstiles
By | September 3, 2010, 11:22pm UTC - In Philadelphia, the school reform commission spent $1 million on turnstiles. (Notebook)
- CNN launches week of programming featuring concrete ways to improve schools. (CNN)
- 49 million students go back to school this fall; about 3 million will finish high school. (NCES)
- DFER endorsed Smikle, Bing, Hoyt, Squadron, Clark, Fields, Senator Diaz. (Daily News)
- A teacher is criticized for a lesson about derogatory words like “bastard” and “wuss.” (WashPost)
- A Minnesota charter school is housed on two semi-trailers. (Bemidji Pioneer)
- A new radio documentary explores proposed changes to teacher training. (America RadioWorks)
- Who wants the chance to fill David Steiner’s shoes at Hunter College? (Rick Hess Straight Up)
- Philadelphia’s mayor is making the black-and-Latino male dropout rate. (Inquirer)
- A fancy school in Moldova launches with new teaching materials, indoor toilets. (Jezebel)
- Ratings of one group proposing to rewrite tests differed “wildly” depending on reviewer. (EdWeek)
- The case for “Twitter-sized queries that unpack into full-bodied math… investigations.” (dy/dan)