Weekend Reading: Can we reinvent school accountability?

Ignore the politics. The Common Core will “live or die” by how well it works in classrooms. (Vox)
Why should preschoolers get suspended? One teacher explains. (Greater Greater Washington)
Providence, R.I. teachers rejected a tentative contract that allowed for layoffs and altered the pay structure. (Teacher Beat)
A teacher wonders whether her well-intentioned advice on reading has hurt her students. (Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension)
Education and medicine used to be quite similar and they could become that way again. (The Atlantic)
We need to rethink how we hold schools accountable, three columnists argue. (Flypaper)
Philadelphia will borrow $30 million to fund its schools, on top of $27 million borrowed earlier this year. (The Notebook)
A Colorado teacher is refusing to administer the state’s Common Core-aligned test. (Answer Sheet)
A teacher reflects on what it takes to get students to learn — and giving them their hardest quiz of the year. (The Jose Vilson)
African-American girls face an long list of barriers to succeeding in school. (Huffington Post)
A collection of tweets on the student protests against the board’s actions in Jefferson County. (Buzzfeed)
In Mississippi, some Teacher for America alums are sticking around to make the changes they felt they couldn’t as teachers. (Hechinger Report)
Are the central complaints about Teach For America coming from critics of school reform outdated? (Salon)
Book author Dana Goldstein on why Arne Duncan’s comments on testing are “staggering.” (The Daily Beast)
An attempt to turn around low-performing Detroit schools run afoul of education technology and a lack of transparency. (Metro Times)