Leonie Haimson recaps the backstory of and objections to Joel Rose’s DOE contract. (NYC P.S. Parents)
Advocates for the homeless are supporting a bill to change the definition of homelessness. (NAEHCY)
Pedro Noguera explains why he resigned from SUNY’s Charter Schools Institute. (SchoolBook)
The principal of P.S. 55 in the Bronx says he hustles for partnerships to help his students. (LinkEd)
Unusually, D.C. schools are adding lessons about family diversity in the earliest grades. (WaPo)
A father compares the homework help he offers to the kind his parents offered him. (Insideschools)
A survey of Los Angeles students shows the impact of school budget cuts there. (L.A. Youth via GOOD)
Satire alert: The lowest-performing 5 percent of economists, like teachers, face dismissal. (Answer Sheet)
A new paper by an economist who found that teachers matter finds that principals do, too. (HuffPo)
Mike Petrilli: Micromanagement, not flexibility, still rules at the U.S. Department of Education. (Flypaper)
Some charter supporters are worried new federal rules would bar them from pension plans. (Politics K12)
Transformation Teacher
Noguera seems to have come around and seen the light, but wouldn’t it have been better to try and make the right changes, rather than flee and leave behind a disaster?
Noryeln
I think he would have had to build alliances and it’s quite reasonable to believe that sort of alliance….one that thinks through options and holds honest discussions…..was not in the cards.
That, or he just saw the writing on the wall and said, “Lemme outta here!”
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