Skip to main contentRemainders: Bloomberg blames UFT's ads for poor poll showing
By | February 9, 2012, 1:20am UTC - Mayor Bloomberg blamed attack ads by the UFT for his low schools approval rating. (Politicker NY)
- Chicago came close to printing a student-designed gang sign-ridden parking sticker. (Tribune via Russo)
- Staten Island parents are upset that the borough chief won’t visit slated-to-close P.S. 14. (SchoolBook)
- Watch a polished presentation on applying to kindergarten by one of the city’s experts. (Insideschools)
- Tucked into today’s journalism news: A high-stakes evaluation plan for Patch reporters. (Romenesko)
- A cheat sheet for education details in President Obama’s budget proposal next week. (Politics K-12)
- A Stuyvesant HS teacher took issue with 10 of 45 questions on a recent state math test. (Gary Rubinstein)
- A group of R.I. schools found summer tutoring stemmed the precollege “melt.” (Starting an Ed School)
- For some reason, the Census Bureau defines care by fathers as child care, not parenting. (Motherlode)
- The U.S. DOE aims to study the effectiveness of teacher training programs on test scores. (Answer Sheet)
- A class talk about reading raises a question a teacher can’t answer, but a student can. (Core Knowledge)
- Summarizing a working paper that explores which teachers principals fired and why. (Shanker Blog)