Joel Klein is leaving News Corp’s investigatory post to return to the education division. (Media Decoder)
Students at Brooklyn’s P.S. 10 want anti-smoking laws, less testing, and better bathrooms. (Twitter)
Sarah Carr explains why education reporters should be careful about the language they use. (Hechinger)
Here’s a thorough roundup of education stories from below the Mason-Dixon line. (Southern Ed Desk)
A teacher describes his transfer school’s trajectory from pretty good to “the epitome of awful.” (Yo Mista)
Advocates issued a policy paper asking the DOE to include parents and students in teacher evals. (AFC)
Harbor School students spent their last day of classes on a schooner in New York Harbor. (Tribeca Trib)
One theory of what charter schools teach the world: Achievement segregation works. (Gary Rubinstein)
A teacher describes the sad story of middle-schoolers who can’t afford their graduation. (SchoolBook)
Ellen Mc Hugh
Watch out, here comes Mr. Burns! Slash and burns that is. This guy is toxic to public education and he’s aiming to make public education private.
That or he was found out! He couldn’t protect poor ole Rupert from the backlash.
Ellen
He’s back…. to make sure his signature effort, privatizing up the public school system, continues.
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