- Actual children attend the city schools, and some of them can’t sit still.
- Aaron Pallas takes a break from crunching numbers to qualify what “parent involvement” can mean.
- Merryl Tisch as state chancellor “doesn’t pass the smell test,” a school official says on Norm Scott’s blog.
- A teacher-blogger describes a very nice but not-so-sharp student who didn’t get into any high school.
- The Flypaper fellows think Arne Duncan might be all talk on the stimulus and school reform.
- A playbook for how to save Detroit’s schools from total catastrophe.
- A parent council in Queens is the latest body to weigh in against a controversial principal there.
- Andy Rotherham examines the symbolism of education reform, finding it lacking.
- Even in apples-to-apples comparisons, Teach for America teachers do better, according to a new study.
- Whitney Tilson has the R-rated version of what happened at the Education Equality Project convention.