Remainders: The perils of group work; assessing John King

Group work comes with perils, seven in particular, says Diana Senechal’s new book. (Joanne Jacobs)
NY’s Board of Regents elected John King to be the state’s next education commissioner. (GS, Times)
As John King takes over for David Steiner, an assessment of the pair’s efforts so far. (Education Next)
NCLB reauthorization kicks off with a congressional bill that would mainly keep SIG. (Politics K12)
Today’s boycott of Buffalo schools resulted in an attendance rate of 53 percent. (Buffalo News)
A scientific exploration into what’s going on when students feel pain doing math. (Ed Week)
The playground fire at P.S. 29 offers a tough lesson about trusting communities. (Insideschools)
Charter schools are similar to British “free schools,” writes a former city school official. (Spectator)
A report looks at the qualities of charter school networks that grow successfully. (Hechinger Report)
More on that study in the journal Science that looked at effective science instruction. (Ed Week)