Leonie Haimson notes that parents’ class size survey answers got no play this year. (NYC P.S. Parents)
The Weekly Reader, a classroom staple for 110 years, will shutter after losing subscribers. (Atlantic)
The UFT says the city’s test score presentation disguises ugly truths about its performance. (Edwize)
Staten Island principal Rose Kerr won a $15,000 prize for elevating teaching. (Teaching Matters)
Dennis Walcott donned “hipster headwear” as he brought healthy lunches to Queens. (Times-Ledger)
Education insiders say they doubt Common Core tests will be ready as promised. (Curriculum Matters)
Florida is taking schools for severely disabled students out of its accountability system. (On Special Ed)
Not all parents are easily sold on the idea of career and tech training. (EdNews Colorado/Hechinger)
A four-year teacher offers tips for avoiding a first-day-of-school classroom meltdown. (Mr. Foteah)
Michael M. (parent still)
A survey to feign interest in parent preferences? A few bucks.
Ignoring parent preferences year after year? Just a few bucks more.
Making believe parents didn’t even state their preference? Priceless.
Class size does matter. To parents. To kids. To teachers. To education experts.
But not to Mayor Mike. (Insert Bronx cheer sound effect.) So there.
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Nice to see the chancellor playing drums while the city ignores parental preference for small classes. City took almost a billion dollars to reduce class sizes, and they’ve gone up every year since. There’s kind of a fiddling while Rome burns air to that, but it takes a lot of time to learn how to fiddle. I don’t expect city kids will get much of a shot in music classes that often exceed 50.
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