Skip to main contentRemainders: Details about new school calm Park Slope parents
By | January 24, 2013, 1:09am UTC - The head of Park Slope’s new elementary school calmed rezoned families’ fears with details. (DNA Info)
- A city parents group has launched a campaign to urge a teacher evaluation deal. (NYC Parents Union)
- Ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools in Brooklyn tend to teach girls things they won’t teach boys. (DNA Info)
- It bears repeating: City charter schools are held to different standards for school closures. (SchoolBook)
- A blow-by-blow of Chicago’s school closures and changes suggests little in the way of strategy. (Reader)
- A teacher says we unfortunately can’t assume the best about rising graduation rates. (Assailed Teacher)
- A city teacher says he wants specifics about Gov. Cuomo’s plan for longer school days. (NYC Educator)
- By replacing “or” with “and,” a literacy teacher got excited about the Common Core. (EdNews Colorado)
- Attention is turning to the puzzle of why there are too many elementary school teachers. (Teacher Beat)
- A second “reformer,” TFA founder Wendy Kopp, writes back to a critic’s open letter. (Gary Rubinstein)
- A 99-year-old home economics teacher in New Jersey says she isn’t quite ready to retire yet. (HuffPo)