Skip to main contentWeekend reads: West Virginia's wide-open school-to-prison pipeline
By | October 10, 2014, 1:35pm UTC - West Virginia’s growing juvenile incarceration rate starts in its heavily policed schools. (Marshall Project)
- Chicago’s teachers union president — also a possible mayoral candidate — is seriously ill. (Sun-Times)
- To boost student learning, a North Carolina school replaced desks with stationary bikes. (Fast Company)
- Students are pressing Harvard to stop sending graduates to Teach for America. (The Crimson)
- Teachers unions are in a tight spot when deciding how to handle members who opt out of testing. (Teacher Beat)
- Philadelphians are angry that the city canceled their teachers’ union contract amid budget woes. (Notebook)
- A mother says her young son’s frequent punishments ended when he found the right school. (Motherlode)
- Des Moines is increasingly poor and nonwhite — and also seeing its schools improve. (National Journal)
- Success Academy Charter Schools now has a small lobbying operation in Washington, D.C. (Huffington Post)
- An advocate of statewide teacher evaluation reforms outlines a host of downsides to the approach. (TNTP)
- A roundup of coverage of cities across the country working to reduce the influence of tests on school evaluations. (Answer Sheet)
