Skip to main contentWeekend Reads: Teach For America’s past, present and future as the national teacher corps turns 25
By | January 22, 2016, 9:24pm UTC - Teach For America is 25. Here’s what it has accomplished and the questions it faces. Education Week
- Chicago is laying off hundreds of central district employees today. Chicago Sun-Times
- Educators used to use the “learning pyramid” to shape their teaching time. Not anymore. Larry Cuban
- Pearson is cutting 4,000 jobs amid a shrinking college textbook market. The decline of PARCC testing can’t have helped. Slate
- Los Angeles uses an algorithm to predict which kids might become criminals. Pacific Standard
- What do big-city superintendents do every day? An answer from a district that just got a new one. Los Angeles Times
- Look inside one effort to stem the chronic special education teacher shortage. NPRed
- Teacher “sickouts” closed almost all Detroit public schools the day President Obama visited this week. Detroit Free Press
- An inside look at Louisiana’s Common Core standards review, which has followed a now-familiar course. The Hechinger Report
- What school lunches look like for the children of professional chefs. Bon Appetit
- In honor of Winter Storm Jonas, a reminder that snow day policy can say a lot about school districts’ priorities. Chalkbeat
