PEP Meeting

Monthly meeting of the Panel for Educational Policy. On the agenda: School closures, truncations, and co-locations.

Overheard just now at a Common Core training: "Is this for third grade?" "Yes, but it used to be for fourth." Context: http://t.co/sToNlRp8 14 hrs ago
For some city math teachers, conversion to new Common Core standards may be tough http://t.co/RN55Se2E 16 hrs ago
For more about @OlympusAcademy, whose principal is speaking at #RTTT announcement right now, read our story: http://t.co/1Zb3JLkT 18 hrs ago
P.S. 59, a crowded Manhattan school, is closing its pre-K program to make room for waitlisted students: http://t.co/lbqBlu4D via @DNAInfo 22 hrs ago
For our morning readers: all about a transfer school where students zip toward a diploma at their own pace — online: http://t.co/1Zb3JLkT 23 hrs ago
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