A city teacher puts together an optimistic back-pay calculator for his colleagues. (NYC Urban Ed)
A Tennessee school district is ending its foreign exchange program because visiting students were complicating accountability data. (Johnson City Press)
Stepping back and taking stock of New Haven’s experiment in union-school district collaboration. (Christian Science Monitor)
A former DOE official who now advises students on high school applications warns them not to assume they’ll get into their top choice. (Brooklyn Family)
In a note to his supervisor, a teacher and union leader says the Danielson Framework doesn’t recognize teaching as an art. (Labor’s Lessons)
A new coalition offers steps that Mayor de Blasio can take to engage young people in civics. (City Limits)
A Rutgers professor identifies problems in the Manhattan Institute’s recent study finding that charter schools shouldn’t pay rent. (Great Lakes Center)
A seventh-grade teacher describes her students’ reaction to a Robert Frost poem. (Edwize)
Australia has made it harder to become and stay a teacher. Are there lessons for the United States? (Hechinger)
Here’s another new use for video: watching students do their Common Core work. (Curriculum Matters)
And don’t forget our event on Tuesday, about the use of video in teacher observations. RSVP here.
