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By | December 18, 2015, 5:37pm UTC - New York reversed course and is dropping state test scores from teacher evaluations for now. (Chalkbeat)
- Investors are rebelling against K12, the operator of online charter schools that have been widely criticized. (BuzzFeed)
- Why for-profit charter schools are on the decline. (Slate)
- Friends of Teach For America have launched a “rapid response” campaign to counter criticism. (Washington Post)
- As Tennessee’s Race To the Top money runs out, what’s left are mixed feelings about the ramped-up teacher evaluations that it funded. (Chalkbeat)
- Only one fourth-grader in Detroit’s lowest-performing schools passed Michigan’s new state math exam. (Detroit Free Press)
- Newark schools cut a deal with federal officials to halt an investigation into alleged civil rights violations. (Star-Ledger)
- Districts across the country got a terror threat this week. Los Angeles drew criticism for being the only one to shut down. (L.A. Times)
- Schools are often more segregated than their neighborhoods, new research finds. (New York Times)
- Go inside some of the programs that are trying to mint more black male teachers. (Hechinger Report)
- Dozens of people with links to a sweeping test-fixing scandal in India have died under mysterious circumstances. (Guardian)
- From “college and career readiness” to “high-stakes testing,” here are nominees for education jargon to lose in 2016. (The 74 Million)
- One teacher’s take on what works with group work — and what doesn’t for him, despite what’s in vogue. (NYC Educator)