Remainders: City high school admins suing over Google results

by Philissa Cramer, at 6:59 pm

Administrators at Norman Thomas HS are suing Google to get defamatory results quashed. (Daily Intel)
Their court papers say that the top results for their names are blogs alleging pedophilia. (Smoking Gun)
The City Council wants help getting books about LGBT issues into city schools. (Insideschools)
To make money, three Lower East Side schools have rented out their yard to a noisy tenant. (DNAInfo)
A teacher remembers how a ninth-grade vocabulary test induced lasting test anxiety. (Music and Beyond)
Liza Featherstone: The biggest issue with state tests is their creators’ anti-intellectualism. (Brooklyn Rail)
Mike Petrilli: The idea that better schools will increase social mobility is more complicated. (Flypaper)
Crowding in one of Chicago’s toniest neighborhoods has schools rooting out fake addresses. (Russo)
Two reports warn about the potential effect of sweeping federal budget cuts on education. (Politics K-12)
A report out today finds that teachers increasingly think that unions should be reformers. (Hechinger)

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