Skip to main contentRemainders: A day of anxiety over elite high school admissions
By | February 12, 2011, 1:11am UTC - The number of black and Hispanic students admitted to elite high schools is down, again. (GS, NYT)
- Some schools think it kinder to mail home specialized high school acceptance letters. (InsideSchools)
- Cathie Black is doing better one-on-one with teachers than with the public. (AP)
- Peter Murphy: absent some big changes, the college readiness gap won’t budge. (Chalkboard)
- Laying off teachers based on U-ratings sounds good, but in practice merit can be arbitrary. (GS)
- Told his students aren’t progressing fast enough, a teacher has to face hard truths. (GS)
- DiNapoli says the state could save money by focusing on at-risk students. (Politics on the Hudson)
- Randi Weingarten says she asked Bloomberg to let the union “police itself” in 2004. (NPR)
- School-related comments bookend a list of Bloomberg’s worst gaffes. (Daily Politics)
- When turnaround principals move from school to school, their work is sometimes undone. (Early Ed)
- If Congress approves Race to the Top spending for 2012, it might be for districts-only. (Politics K-12)