Remainders: Romney unveils choice-heavy education platform

In his first education policy speech, Mitt Romney promised lots of choice. (WSJ, HuffPo, Politics K-12)
Andy Rotherham: Romney’s proposals make good political sense — for President Obama. (Eduwonk)
Some of Romney’s claims about teachers and Obama weren’t fully factual. (Teacher Beat, Politics K-12)
Mike Petrilli: Romney’s proposals would swap one kind of federal overreach for another. (Flypaper)
And Romney’s policy proposals conjure up the education climate of 1999, before NCLB. (Quick & Ed)
Hamas is starting to teach Hebrew, “the language of the enemy,” in the high schools it runs. (Times)
The city’s new strategy for keeping juvenile offenders “Close to Home” should help in school. (NY World)
The latest charter-originating how-to guide aims to help teachers manage it all. (Starting an Ed School)
An argument that racial integration isn’t a feature of schools, but a school of thought. (Jose Vilson)
The inclusion of disabled students in state testing is another Common Core issue. (On Special Ed)
D.C.’s schools chief says she can’t see value in making teachers’ evaluations public. (Scholastic Admin)
A teacher says she’s losing something special as her longtime co-teacher starts maternity leave. (Prelife)
A call for city students to start spending more time getting down and dirty in nature. (Mr. Foteah)
A parent says her experience proves that school choice in New York City is two-tiered. (SchoolBook)
A Chicago parent says there are no choices there — so his family is leaving. (Charting My Own Course)