A senate panel approved two programs to boost Department of Education funds. (Politcs K-12)
Teacher: “going the extra mile” might mean starting at 7 a.m. and skipping lunch. (GS Community)
Mike Petrilli and Susan Headden discuss the Common Core’s potential impact. (Fordham Institute)
Deborah Kenny’s book tour gets some critical publicity from Gary Rubinstein. (Teach For Us)
Here’s one lawmaker’s take on a sparsely covered a state hearing on testing. (CapTon)
Students’ testimonies of drug use are pouring in after a Times’ story about it. (Times)
A Mad Men guide to what ed reporting looks like at the Times (spoiler alert!). (Quick & Ed)
A court decision barring schools from turning away students for legal status turned 30. (School Law)
A good-natured panel with six Democratic mayoral candidates was light on substance. (City & State)
A teacher questions the validity of the city’s new graduation data. (Chaz’s School Daze)
David Dunn
Why didn’t Gotham Schools cover the UFT’s Shanker Scholarship last Thursday? Over a million dollars was given out to some very worthy high school grads.