Skip to main contentRemainders: More than 200 D.C. teachers fired over test scores
By | July 15, 2011, 11:55pm UTC - Five percent of D.C. teachers were fired today because of low student test scores. (D.C. Schools Insider)
- Details about what’s being discussed in top-secret negotiations on NCLB flexibility. (Politics K-12)
- A gadfly gives Rahm Emanuel a T after 6 weeks as Chicago’s mayor, for “tormenting teachers.” (Reader)
- A city teacher lists four things she wishes she had done differently last year. (Miss Brave)
- A suburban principal got a call from Arne Duncan to talk about the dangers of testing. (Answer Sheet)
- A California law requires charter schools to reflect their communities demographically. (BET)
- Economist Eric Hanushek: California’s budget strategy, to cut school time, is the worst. (Education Next)
- A “wince-worthy” look at a new version of “The Great Gatsby” for today’s students. (Core Knowledge)
- A Philadelphia teacher who didn’t witness cheating reflects on his city’s growing scandal. (Notebook)