- P.S. 321 Principal Elizabeth Phillips complained to the state about this year’s ELA exams. (Ed Notes)
- A collection of coverage about a field-test boycott that one teacher encouraged in 2008. (Ed Notes)
- Against the idea that summer vacation is a vestige of an agricultural past. (National Review)
- Joel Klein talks about his life before and after running the DOE. “I party hard,” he says. (NYT Mag)
- Kate Quarfordt is back and directing another play in the Bronx, “Les Miserables.” (GS Community)
- On the child-rearing genius of the father of the boy who built a cardboard arcade. (Motherlode)
- A student with cerebral palsy laments Brooklyn Tech’s dearth of special ed teachers. (SchoolBook)
- Ex-NYer Jonathan Gyurko is raising hackles in Connecticut’s edu-politics. (Conn Post via Russo)
- Chicago is restoring physical education classes in effort to reduce childhood obesity. (The Root)
- It’s Friday, so here’s a video of cute kids narrative animal documentary films. (Boing Boing)