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  • Teachers College is making new attempts to add value to Morningside Heights. (Columbia Spectator)
  • One of TC’s strategies: Opening its own public elementary school. (Starting an Ed School)
  • Mayor Bloomberg said Cathie Black’s dismal poll numbers are no big deal to him. (Daily Politics)
  • The actual text of the state’s teacher evaluation proposal appears to be missing in action. (Flypaper)
  • Chicago is pulling a New York City and cracking down on kindergarten redshirting. (Trib via Russo)
  • All of the urban school districts up for the Broad Prize have been finalists before. (PR Newswire)
  • Could Santiago Taveras’s new job violate the city’s conflict of interest rules? (Norm’s Notes)
  • Collin Lawrence’s students threatened to pull a French Revolution on their principal. (GS Community)
  • The children of helicopter parents learn a lot of words, fast. (Lily’s Blackboard via @emilyschoolsyou)
  • Advice for a family with a 16-month-old child planning a schools-motivated move. (Insideschools)
  • Eric Hanushek tries to simplify all the research on teachers’ added value. (Ed Next)
  • Vote now for one of 13 student-made covers for the next high school directory. (DOE via Insideschools)