- Sad news for my industry: Veteran schools reporter Sara Neufeld is leaving the Baltimore Sun.
- P.S. 9 students’ un-scored gifted and talented tests have been traced to San Antonio, Texas.
- The union newspaper highlights labor-management collaboration at a Harlem charter school.
- Resurrecting a story from Eric Nadelstern’s past: He came up with teacher peer review!
- Dissidents are asking the UFT to fight for chapter leaders sent to the rubber room.
- A New York delegation will go to Chicago to learn about their research consortium on schools.
- Teaching Fellows members are not getting job interviews, and they’re not happy.
- There might be teacher layoffs in Rochester, but the union is fighting back.
- Detroit’s public school system is probably on the brink of a giant overhaul.
- The DFER-backed Peter Groff will cede his Colorado state senate seat to a principal.
- Even as vouchers are under the microscope in D.C., demand for them is up in Ohio.
- The Chicago charter school that voted to unionize is winning an award.
- The “fade-out” phenomenon: How well-preschooled poor children lose skills they learn.
- Antonucci wonders if union work is what teachers do once they’ve figured out their job.
- Financial disclosure forms for USDOE staffers, courtesy ProPublica. (Via Russo.)
- Richard Kessler adores a new staffer at the National Endowment for the Arts.
- The most troubled children seem to have an adverse effect on their classmates’ learning.