Remainders: Next Race to the Top program will be for districts

by Philissa Cramer, at 7:58 pm

Ed Sec Arne Duncan wants the next Race to the Top to be for individual school districts. (Politics K-12)
Highlights of a wide-ranging Duncan interview about accountability and commitment. (Politics K-12)
Duncan is also pretty in pink as GQ Magazine’s 32nd most powerful person in Washington, D.C. (GQ)
A city principal outlines tension between differentiation and one-size-fits-all accountability. (SchoolBook)
A new report concludes that wraparound social services help teachers focus more on instruction. (CAP)
Students and teachers across the world today ran into trouble with Wikipedia’s protest blackout. (Gawker)
Hillary Lustick: Planning ahead is a pleasure, but teachers don’t have time for that. (GS Community)
A city teacher ponders the political situation and decides to stick to his students. (Music and Beyond)
What if we swapped the words “needs improvement” for “failing” when talking schools? (Eduwonk)
A “distinguished educator” promised to help lead Buffalo’s schools hasn’t yet arrived. (School Zone Blog)
A charter school’s “week of service” includes hearing senior citizens’ civil rights stories. (Bed-Stuy Patch)
The design for a Stockholm “free school” is meant to encourage community and curiosity. (Architizer)
Sounding the alarm that black students’ academic achievement has regressed by decades. (Black News)

@leoniehaimson The city didnt automatically generate TDRs for teachers at charter schools; the charter schools had to opt in to the program. in reply to leoniehaimson 8 hrs ago
RT @blogsbe: @gothamschools we need a good hashtag for the release of @NYCSchools' teacher data reports. I'm thinking #TDRmageddon 11 hrs ago
New York's State Ed Department is restoring federal SIG funding for 5 school districts — NYC is not among them. 10 lost funds over evals 12 hrs ago
RT @educationweek: Study: Asian Students Uncounted, Underserved in N.Y.C. Schools http://t.co/rZF1EEkI 12 hrs ago
Also, Teacher Data Reports generated for charter school teachers at their schools' requests won't be released this week along with others. 12 hrs ago
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