Remainders: "Budget Hold 'Em" for cash-strapped school chiefs

A consulting firm has created a card game to help school leaders decide what to cut. (District Dossier)
Circling back to “miracle schools” and finding that low scores have fallen further. (Gary Rubinstein)
From schedules to staff lists, what to attach when submitting a charter application. (Charter Notebook)
An inquiry into the psychology and motivations of the internet’s “angry commenters.” (Slate)
Two-thirds of British schools were closed yesterday as teachers struck over pension changes. (BBC)
Does the education reform movement have a persistent problem with sexism? (Alexander Russo)
A report (by a former professor of mine!) explores improving evaluations for high school teachers. (CAP)
A principals union official calls new evaluations “nightmares waiting to haunt” the city. (SchoolBook)
Midway through an ed policy program, Ruben Brosbe refocuses on the classroom. (GS Community)
Congrats to Liz Willen, the new director of Columbia’s Hechinger Institute on education reporting. (TC)
An ATR who has been to eight schools offers sartorial observations from the road. (Chaz’s School Daze)
A roundup of research conclusions and open questions relating to “value-added” data. (Shanker Blog)
The Common Core has been around for a while, but associated assessments are still far off. (Flypaper)