Remainders: Finally, answers about why kids don’t like school

by Philissa Cramer, at 10:47 pm

Jennifer Freeman asks why foundations can fund art and chess programs, but parents should not.
Aaron Pallas takes aim at Margaret Spellings’ justification for why high school NAEP scores are stuck.
Experts debate the meaning of the NAEP test results in the New York Times’ Running Debate feature.
Newspaper editors can’t decide whether the NAEP results are good or bad.
Was the beleaguered Queens principal’s resignation really voluntary? Helen Zelon implies it was not.
A former Brooklyn principal who was convicted of molesting a girl was caught after years on the lam.
The Wall Street Journal gives a thumbs up to a new book that tries to explain why kids don’t like school.
A new report argues that paying fewer teachers better would improve educational outcomes.
In Baltimore, officials are proposing relaxing high school promotion requirements.
A new film highlights the challenges faced by teenagers in foster care.
Alexander Russo picks up a too-cute video from Jezebel.com, of kids at PS 22 singing “Eye of the Tiger.”
A middle school teacher says the most adolescent behavior at her school comes from her colleagues.

Frank Thomas, DOE spokesman just told me no arrests have been made tonight at PEP despite confrontation between protesters & police earlier. 39 mins ago
RT @leoniehaimson: It's been shown repeatedly that as one schl closes another overwhelmed w/ high needs kids that small schls won't take 44 mins ago
Shael: the suggestion that kids are moved around (to large, struggling high schools) just isn't accurate. 46 mins ago
@SchoolBook: Manhattan rep @PSulliv and mayoral appointee Lisette Nieves get into an argument she tells him to get off his "soapbox” 48 mins ago
Mayoral appointee Lisette nieves chimes in on an increasingly irate @PSulliv she says he's being rude. 49 mins ago
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