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By | February 8, 2013, 3:02am UTC - A PSA: City schools are open tomorrow, but that could change between 4 and 6 a.m. (GS Twitter)
- A teacher says grading class participation is important, especially for the shiest students. (Atlantic)
- The city’s bid to get a higher court to hear its case for not releasing Cathie Black emails fell short. (Scribd)
- For New Yorkers for Great Public Schools, a former teacher criticizes Michelle Rhee’s policies. (NYGPS)
- Charter advocate James Merriman criticizes UFT chief Michael Mulgrew’s pre-K comments. (NYCCSC)
- Park Slope’s new school will be named for the late, great children’s author Maurice Sendak. (DNAInfo)
- At an upstate residential school, just one city student has gotten there during the bus strike. (Motherlode)
- A deep dive at a Los Angeles “blended learning” school highlights the strengths of the model. (Ed Sector)
- At the Brooklyn New School, students stay engaged by picking what to study. (Investigating Choice Time)
- Achievement First charter schools have broken teacher evaluations into 10 criteria. (PBS 1, 2)
- A Chicago program to get more poor students into elite high schools seems to be working. (Catalyst)
- The N.Y. Fed found that New Jersey’s poorest districts had their funds cut most. (Liberty St. Economics)
