Skip to main contentWeekend Reads: A teacher makes waves with ‘Bored of Education’
By | November 21, 2014, 9:14pm UTC - A New York City teacher who is also a rapper is making waves with “Bored of Education.” (NPRed)
- Educators are increasingly reassessing the once-popular “no excuses” approach to discipline. (Atlantic)
- An investigation found that Chicago’s school financing has come with great risk and little scrutiny. (Tribune)
- Tracking effectively segregates schools by race and class, and the U.S. DOE wants that to change. (Quartz)
- Cable news channels aren’t featuring education very much — and they’re featuring educators less. (Answer Sheet)
- A new report finds that professionals missed many chances to intervene with the Sandy Hook shooter. (Politico)
- Take a look inside creepy, abandoned school buildings in the United States and Japan. (Buzzfeed)
- Minnesota could be the next state to see a Vergara-inspired challenge to teacher tenure laws. (Teacher Beat)
- A new website aims to close the gap between education researchers and practitioners. (Inside School Research)
- A request for personal recollections of teaching in U.S. schools has already yielded 800 replies. (Gawker)
- One promising student illustrates the challenges and possibilities of a struggling New Jersey school. (Hechinger)
- One teacher swapped the podcast phenomenon Serial for Hamlet to achieve Common Core-alignment. (Slate)
