- The grading of state tests has begun along with complaints about how it’s done. (NYC P.S. Parents)
- A city teacher says she’s uncomfortable with rules barring public talk about test content. (Ariel Sacks)
- An Albany principal says N.Y. shouldn’t need a survey to learn its tests are too long. (Common Ground)
- Teacher Will Johnson says setting “Student Learning Objectives” has downsides. (GS Community)
- A student apologizes to his teacher 40 years after inexplicably offending him. (Oregonian)
- A principal who is coaching again calls for more student-administrator interaction. (Practical Theory)
- A first-grade father describes the fraught responsibility of providing class snacks. (Insideschools)
- Andy Rotherham lists three obstacles to education reform, starting with money-sugarcoating. (Atlantic)
- The quest for additional investigators for school cases has hit papers as help wanted ads. (NYCDOEnuts)
- Jean McTavish, a transfer school principal, got in trouble in school for not pledging to the flag. (DNA Info)
- McTavish has also opted her own children out of New Jersey’s state tests this year. (NYC P.S. Parents)
- The principal of P.S. 112 in the Bronx dishes on how it felt when the school earned a D. (SchoolBook)
- A national expert on high school dropouts says online credit recovery can be too easy. (Class Struggle)
- A Teachers College prof says college students might be overdiagnosed as underprepared. (Economix)