- Klein is giving principals until Oct. 30 to hire ATRs or forfeit the money to pay for the excess pool.
- NEA is putting $6 million toward getting good teachers to stay in tough schools.
- Michael Posner argues that art education can improve students’ cognition (h/t Dewey21C).
- A math teacher lists his reasons for opposing Gates’ and UFT’s “Methods of Effective Teaching” project.
- Arthur Levine wonders if the School of One is the greatest education experiment conducted so far.
- Pissed Off Teacher says Bloomberg’s education mailers are a “misuse of data.”
- Big names in education don’t like a new Partnership in 21st Century Skills program.
- A burst of charter approvals means the state can only create 37 more before hitting its ceiling.
- Chad Aldeman pens a “Dear Iowa Republicans” letter opposing high school exit exams.
- The country’s first program teaching gaming principles will open in New York next month.
- And a 6 year-old surprises his mother by wandering out of kindergarten and following her home.