Remainders: Matt Damon: We were forced into private schools

By 
Philissa Cramer
 | August 7, 2013, 1:15am UTC
  • “We don’t have a choice,” public school advocate Matt Damon says about picking private school. (Daily Mail)
  • A former Department of Education press secretary is now a top direction at a major PR firm. (Crain’s NY)
  • Here’s a five-step program for educators handling the state’s new test scores. (Christopher Lehman)
  • A city teacher lists tests’ shortcomings, including that they measure only student performance. (JD2718)
  • A top NYC Leadership Academy executive is a new deputy mayor in Jersey City, N.J. (GS in Brief)
  • A Common Core advocate says New York’s test scores mark a day of reckoning. (Common Core Watch)
  • Valerie Strauss summarizes five realities about standardized testing that she calls absurd. (Answer Sheet)
  • Educators 4 Excellence, the teacher group that started here, is officially expanding to Minnesota. (Minn Post)
  • The new head of Teach for America in New York City introduces herself to corps members in an email. (TFA)