Weekend reads: Can school accountability be reinvented (again)?

Education and medicine used to be quite similar, and they could become that way again. (The Atlantic)
A job-seeking teacher went on a whirlwind end-of-summer interviewing tour at NYC charter schools. How did it go? (NYC Educator)
Why should preschoolers get suspended? One teacher explains. (Greater Greater Washington)
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)
In Mississippi, some Teach for America alums are sticking around to make the changes they felt they couldn’t as teachers. (Hechinger Report)
An attempt to turn around low-performing Detroit schools struggled with education technology and a lack of transparency. (Metro Times)
African-American girls face an long list of barriers to succeeding in school. (Huffington Post)
Ignore the politics. The Common Core will “live or die” by how well it works in classrooms. (Vox)
A teacher wonders whether her well-intentioned advice on reading has hurt her students. (Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension)
Providence, R.I. teachers rejected a tentative contract that allowed for layoffs and altered the pay structure. (Teacher Beat)
We need to rethink how we hold schools accountable, three columnists argue. (Flypaper)
In honor of Banned Book Week, a look at what books Jefferson County, Colorado — currently embroiled in a controversy over censorship — has banned from schools. (Chalkbeat Colorado)
A collection of tweets on the student protests against the board’s actions in Jefferson County. (Buzzfeed)