Skip to main contentRemainders: Quinn ramps up mandatory kindergarten lobbying
By | May 11, 2012, 10:27pm UTC - Council Speaker Christine Quinn is ramping up her lobbying for mandatory kindergarten. (Insideschools)
- Rick Hess says American schools are plagued by a “culture of can’t” that holds them back. (Straight Up)
- Joel Rose of New Classrooms offers a blueprint for how to reinvent classrooms for the future. (Atlantic)
- Diane Ravitch says the Quinnipiac poll question about school closures was misleading. (DR’s Blog)
- A summary of city, state, and Obama administration teacher appreciation messages. (NYC P.S. Parents)
- A parent explains why he filed a Freedom of Information Law request to see the state tests. (SchoolBook)
- A math curriculum’s Kickstarter bid raises crowdsourcing vs. venture capital issues. (Hack Education)
- The superintendent of Scarsdale’s public schools makes a case against new evaluations. (Newsday)
- Research and experience show an educator urban students can fall apart after graduation. (Coach G)
- The irony of a new teacher licensing exam is that it was designed by teacher educators. (Teacher Beat)