Have you heard about Nathan Gibbs-Bowling yet? The Washington state teacher of the year went viral this week. Tacoma News Tribune
In a blog post, Gibbs-Bowling diagnoses America’s big problem — most people just don’t care about poor people of color — and offers a solution: stronger teaching, distributed more fairly. A Teacher’s Evolving Mind
Go inside a Denver school that successfully employed joy as a tool to turn itself around. Chalkbeat
Some teacher turnover boosts student achievement, a new study of D.C.’s schools concludes. The Washington Post
School choice is the new normal, and so are the challenges that come with moving away from centralized bureaucracies. Flypaper
More schools are teaching students in two languages. Get to know one of them. The Hechinger Report
Looking back on the charismatic professor who argued in the early 1900s against teaching math to most kids. The Atlantic
Are Detroit’s schools in as singularly bad shape as they seem? A Nashville father sees local parallels. Dad Gone Wild
The founder of the Green Dot charter school network might run for mayor of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Times
An L.A. teen with immigrant parents and a teacher who treats math class like a varsity sport earned one of just 12 perfect AP Calculus scores last year. Los Angeles Times