- Mayoral candidate Tom Allon has offered to take the UFT’s Michael Mulgrew to Finland. (Crain’s NY)
- Actor Cynthia Nixon, a longtime city schools activist, likes Bill de Blasio for mayor. (Capital Tonight)
- A look at what protesting city parents could teach “the 1-percent education reformers.” (The Awl)
- Local groups are in on a national effort to ask the feds to give more money to needy schools. (EdVox)
- An explainer on the Common Core curriculum standards for New York City parents. (Insideschools)
- A principal says the city should grade middle schools on students’ high school readiness. (SchoolBook)
- Without mentioning Rochester, Chicago’s schools chief discusses his own school search. (Big City Belly)
- Part II of another interview with Chicago’s schools chief touches on unions. (Charting My Own Course)
- An Illinois teacher was suspended for showing students Jon Stewart clips about Herman Cain. (HuffPo)
- A charter advocate recaps what Steve Brill said when our Geoff Decker interviewed him. (Chalkboard)
- A mom chronicles the difficulties in advocating for her son, who has autism. (Insideschools)
- Education Week has launched a set of news stories about labor-district collaboration. (Teacher Beat)
- Another Race to the Top round (the third) focuses on science education; N.Y. can’t enter. (Politics K-12)
- Jimmy Fallon channels Jim Morrison channeling the “Reading Rainbow” theme song. (YouTube)