Skip to main contentRemainders: Resistance to special ed push at selective schools
By | March 30, 2012, 12:40am UTC - Parents at a selective school are pushing back against increased special ed enrollment. (Insideschools)
- Suggestions for class treats when school rules prohibit cookies, cakes, and other sweets. (The Kitchn)
- The city could eliminate pre-K programs to make space for waitlisted in kindergarteners. (DNA Info)
- Elmo loves chancellor! in a photo the DOE snapped during a school tour. (NYCSchools Twitter)
- On the frustration teachers feel when a needy student simply disappears. (Miss Eyre/NYC Educator)
- Anthony Cody reflects on retention, not replacement, turned around his school. (Living in Dialogue)
- An early and prolific teacher-blogger has taken a buyout from his suburban school system. (Daily Kos)
- A list of the charter schools opening this fall; applications are due next week to all. (Insideschools)
- Teacher absenteeism is up in Atlanta, raising questions about mental health days. (Get Schooled)
- A Gates-funded study of teachers found 73 percent feel prepared to teach the Common Core. (CCW)
- A teacher describes the challenge of test-prepping for a moving target and a bell curve. (Ariel Sacks)
- A teacher launches a series about teaching academic language to ELLs. (No Sleep ‘Til Summer)