- Education and medicine used to be quite similar, and they could become that way again. (The Atlantic)
- A job-seeking teacher went on a whirlwind end-of-summer interviewing tour at NYC charter schools. How did it go? (NYC Educator)
- Why should preschoolers get suspended? One teacher explains. (Greater Greater Washington)
- A Colorado teacher is refusing to administer the state’s Common Core-aligned test. (Answer Sheet)
- A teacher reflects on what it takes to get students to learn — and giving them their hardest quiz of the year. (The Jose Vilson)
- In Mississippi, some Teach for America alums are sticking around to make the changes they felt they couldn’t as teachers. (Hechinger Report)
- An attempt to turn around low-performing Detroit schools struggled with education technology and a lack of transparency. (Metro Times)
- African-American girls face an long list of barriers to succeeding in school. (Huffington Post)
- Ignore the politics. The Common Core will “live or die” by how well it works in classrooms. (Vox)
- A teacher wonders whether her well-intentioned advice on reading has hurt her students. (Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension)
- Providence, R.I. teachers rejected a tentative contract that allowed for layoffs and altered the pay structure. (Teacher Beat)
- We need to rethink how we hold schools accountable, three columnists argue. (Flypaper)
- In honor of Banned Book Week, a look at what books Jefferson County, Colorado — currently embroiled in a controversy over censorship — has banned from schools. (Chalkbeat Colorado)
- A collection of tweets on the student protests against the board’s actions in Jefferson County. (Buzzfeed)