Skip to main contentWhat We're Reading: The rise and fall of "reform" in Newark
By | May 16, 2014, 5:30pm UTC - Newark got $200 million to overhaul its schools. Four years later, what was bought is unclear. (New Yorker)
- Principals in Chicago say they’ve faced a “gag rule” against speaking out about city policies. (WBEZ)
- A top State Education Department official, Ken Slentz, is leaving to head an upstate district. (Capital Confidential)
- A Boston teacher describes the value of “old-fashioned nonfiction text packets”: newspapers. (Core Transition)
- A New Orleans high school senior explains why she wishes her school talked less about college. (Hechinger)
- A statistical look at New York City’s teaching corps finds more female and fewer white teachers. (IBO)
- Nationally, online “credit recovery” courses are surging in enrollment, yet they face little scrutiny. (Education Next)
- City teachers in the ATR pool want a meeting about the UFT contract’s implications on them. (Ed Notes)
- A mom says she wishes students and parents faced the same pressure as teachers not to talk about testing. (Insideschools)
- Andy Rotherham lists four things to consider about teacher pensions, starting with the fact that they vary. (Eduwonk)
- Google executive Eric Schmidt’s seat on New York’s three-person school tech commission has raised eyebrows. (Bits)
- Camden, N.J., will lay off more than 300 educators at the end of this year, and people aren’t happy. (NJ Spotlight)
- Texas faces familiar disputes as it joins other states in tying teacher ratings to student performance. (Texas Tribune)