Remainders: Duncan, turnarounds, and Chicago violence

by Anna Phillips, at 8:35 pm

Arne Duncan says his turnaround strategy had nothing to do with the death of a student in Chicago.
Vagueness about when the new RttT regs will come out is giving the Ed. Dept. headaches.
Andy Smarick calls the exclusion of private schools from i3 “very troubling”
Teachable Moment argues that more school choice, like more calorie counts, won’t prevent bad decisions.
P.S. 24 in Riverdale is losing four of its school aides to budget cuts and is not happy about it.
The new Frank McCourt school’s admissions process is still TBD, and highly anticipated.
…And there will be CEC hearings about it in the “coming months” WNYC reports.
A teacher lists the many difficulties of getting older teacher to use newer technology.
What if everything we think we know about arts education turns out not to be true?
“Whatever It Takes,” the documentary about a Bronx high school, will run on PBS in April.
And four NBA players didn’t attend summer school to teach kids a good lesson, they’ll need the degree.

Despite some tense confrontations between protesters and police, nothing ever got physical and a lieutenant just said there were no arrests. 2 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 2 hrs ago
Last of the occupy protesters just walked out together, shouting expletives and insults on their way out. #toughcrowd 2 hrs ago
Frank Thomas, DOE spokesman just told me no arrests have been made tonight at PEP despite confrontation between protesters & police earlier. 2 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 2 hrs ago
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