As New York City tries to recruit more male teachers of color, go inside another city’s program designed to turn promising young black men into educators. (Hechinger Report)
New York reversed course and is dropping state test scores from teacher evaluations for now. (Chalkbeat)
Investors are rebelling against K12, the operator of online charter schools that have been widely criticized. (BuzzFeed)
Why for-profit charter schools — already outlawed in New York — are on the decline elsewhere. (Slate)
Friends of Teach For America have launched a “rapid response” campaign to counter criticism. (Washington Post)
As Tennessee’s Race To the Top money runs out, what’s left are mixed feelings about the ramped-up teacher evaluations that it funded. (Chalkbeat)
Only one fourth-grader in Detroit’s lowest-performing schools passed Michigan’s new state math exam. (Detroit Free Press)
Newark schools cut a deal with federal officials to halt an investigation into alleged civil rights violations. (Star-Ledger)
Districts across the country got a terror threat this week. Los Angeles drew criticism for being the only one to shut down. (L.A. Times)
Schools are often more segregated than their neighborhoods, new research finds. (New York Times)
Dozens of people with links to a sweeping test-fixing scandal in India have died under mysterious circumstances. (Guardian)
From “college and career readiness” to “high-stakes testing,” here are nominees for education jargon to lose in 2016. (The 74 Million)
One teacher’s take on what works with group work — and what doesn’t for him, despite what’s in vogue. (NYC Educator)