Remainders: A guide for new teachers who brim with idealism

Instructions to help new teachers balance idealism with realism. (Coach G’s Teaching Tips)
Nearly 600 districts and nonprofits applied for $150 million in federal innovation funds. (Politics K-12)
Diane Ravitch and a city schoolteacher, GEM’s Brian Jones, on trends in ed policy. (Democracy Now)
Steven Brill and Michael Winerip parry over Winerip’s critique of Brill’s book. (NYTimes Comments)
A teacher concludes his “Class Warfare” commentary: Brill wrote the story too soon. (Gary Rubinstein)
A California teacher writes an open letter to her new principal, the sixth in nine years. (Edutopia)
A critic of Teach for America sounds the alarm about TFA’s efforts at union friendliness. (Daily Kos)
Jay Mathews is soliciting readers’ formulas for “a good school.” (Class Struggle)
Now at Harvard’s ed school, Ruben Brosbe says he is setting aside his preconceptions. (GS Community)
Mike Petrilli: New York shouldn’t sue over teacher evals, because anything is an improvement. (Flypaper)
A chair of the Digital Learning Council describes the classrooms of the future — of 2016. (Hechinger)
An evangelist of high-tech school reforms lists 18 low-tech innovations and best practices. (HuffPo)