Skip to main contentRemainders: Students speak out after a segregated education
By | June 29, 2012, 11:36pm UTC - Chicago students describe what it was like to attend racially segregated schools for 12 years. (WBEZ)
- At least one person hired at a turnaround school didn’t know the offer was conditional. (NYC Educator)
- Teacher Mike Albertson cheers the news that Flushing HS won’t close this year after all. (Urban Ed)
- Online teacher training is seen as one solution for problems facing public schools. (Hechinger/TIME)
- AFT chief Randi Weingarten suggests a “bar exam” for teachers to boost confidence in them. (Atlantic)
- To write a book in two months, Diane Ravitch is going to blog only four times a day. (DR’s Blog)
- A national Common Core observer says New York is offering guidance everyone needs. (Flypaper)
- A guarded defense of the Gates Foundation’s “engagement” bracelets. (Dan Willingham via Eduwonk)
- Advocates say the number of homeless students in America is “horrifyingly high” and growing. (HuffPo)
- A teacher recalls how a student came out to him: by first ostentatiously confessing drug use. (Yo Mista)