- The Department of Education is eroding democracy, according to public advocate hopeful Bill de Blasio.
- Pissed Off Teacher, who teaches math, developed a logarithmic logistic model for school overcrowding.
- Ultra-elite Stuyvesant High School suffers from overcrowding too, a parent says.
- Progressive educator Herb Kohl tells Ed Sec Arne Duncan what he thinks, in an open letter.
- Randi Weingarten says she wants national standards but isn’t sure Duncan is the man to make them.
- Is Weingarten really going to resign right before UFT contract negotiations? Speculation abounds.
- A teacher says he finally has the freedom to teach, with just seven days left in the school year.
- Michelle Rhee’s first two years as D.C.’s schools superintendent draws mixed reviews from bloggers.
- A call for focusing on school models that regular people can replicate.
- Norm Scott says the last frontier in the mayoral control fight is the time before the law sunsets again.
- A report from Chicago says Roland Fryer’s cash-for-grades experiment there is over. (Via Russo)
- A reporter says he got “misty-eyed” watching the Assembly vote today on its mayoral control bill.