Parsing the list of high schools with open spots for schools that might be good picks. (Insideschools)
Teacher Laura Klein: My students’ high school options will turn out to be just okay. (SchoolBook)
Contextualizing the Teacher Data Report release in a growing list of city ed policy missteps. (Russo)
Breaking down how the city’s major print and TV news organizations have covered TDRs. (Capital NY)
Responding to the TDRs, Leonie Haimson has foiled for DOE officials’ performance reviews. (Ed Notes)
A review of teacher-rating reporting shows it’s easier to gather data than make use of it. (Atlantic)
Diane Ravitch: The scores are just another reason why teachers are demoralized. (Bridging Differences)
After moving to high school, a former middle school teacher seeks solidarity. (Miss Eyre/NYC Educator)
New York turned in its NCLB waiver application today, along with 26 other state and D.C. (Politics K-12)
An argument that test-based teacher evaluations unfortunately bypass principals. (Common Core Watch)
Jose Vilson: Teachers of color are just like other teachers, but they also add something special. (GOOD)
A teacher weighs female colleagues’ talk and what, as a man, he can’t say to students. (NYC Educator)
A parent-teacher conference in a school with many ELLs takes a surprising turn. (Accountable Talk)
Mayor Bloomberg and his L.A. and Chicago counterparts will talk schools on Friday. (Politics Now)
A graduate of the city’s first KIPP charter school describes how it changed his life. (Yale Herald)
Guest
in the end it will be the children who will speak truth to power about how these high performing charters are saving them and all the rest is just noise.
Energized2fight
7400 kids unmatched…again!!! Student enrollment is a joke and should be disbanded to each borough now.
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