Remainders: Discharged students tell their side of the story

by Philissa Cramer, at 11:40 pm

An teacher describes the antics of the dysfunctional hiring team at her school. The story involves bacon.
Pissed Off Teacher wonders how an extended day could be good for already overstressed students.
Aaron Pallas takes a deeper look at what the country’s essentially flat NAEP scores might mean.
Some students who were discharged from high school say they didn’t really enroll elsewhere.
Andy Smarick says he just doesn’t get why Jon Schnur isn’t joining the US Department of Education.
On Edwize, a teacher writes about the importance of making sure children have a good breakfast.
A conference at Pace University today focused on whether charter schools are the answer.
Chester Finn says Joel Klein is one reason the country needs an independent education audit agency.
There aren’t too many high achievers in American schools, Kevin Carey says. There aren’t enough.
A Queens teacher sheds some light on what happens once teachers are sent to the rubber room.
At Eduwonk, another voice in the chorus calling for more study of how HS graduates do in college.

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How HS graduates do in college? Isn’t everyone in college a HS graduate these days?

Or does that mean the colleges blame the high schools for their student failures? Should the high schools blame the junior high schools? And who should the kindergarteners blame? Their nannys?

Despite some tense confrontations between protesters and police, nothing ever got physical and a lieutenant just said there were no arrests. 4 hrs ago
He's been frozen in that stoic position all night MT @lisafleisher: A protester speaks with his middle finger. http://t.co/xLar4NRU 4 hrs ago
Last of the occupy protesters just walked out together, shouting expletives and insults on their way out. #toughcrowd 4 hrs ago
Frank Thomas, DOE spokesman just told me no arrests have been made tonight at PEP despite confrontation between protesters & police earlier. 5 hrs 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 5 hrs ago
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