- Two percent of the 300 responders to an Insideschools poll said their school has no parent association.
- Quick and the Ed defends open-sourced instructional materials against doubts about their quality.
- Jay Mathews debates Valerie Strauss over the proper response to accusations of cheating.
- Ed is Watching recalls the lessons of the 1994 Denver teachers’ strike.
- A federal judge threw out Chicago’s school desegregation order.
- Robert Pondiscio says that our current “vague, insubstantial, voluntary national standards” won’t stick.
- Norm’s Notes posts a letter to Joel Klein from P.S. 84 parents.
- High-quality early childhood care can boost kids’ test scores through fifth grade, a new study found.
- But policy-makers don’t pay too much attention to school research, another study reports.
- Over 2,000 people rallied in Michigan for changes to make the state more competitive for Race to the Top.
- The subject of Mayor Bloomberg’s first attack ads? Thompson’s education record.
- But as GothamSchools’ Anna Phillips reports, Thompson’s record is much more complicated.