- A rubber room teacher shares 15 lessons learned, starting with “most people don’t like A/C.”
- Obama will give a speech for schoolkids only next week, urging them to take responsibility.
- Suggested lesson plans (PDF) accompany the speech. Some are crying federalism foul.
- Joel Klein, meanwhile, will spend next Tuesday in Los Angeles with the Gates Foundation.
- Do new principals hurt schools? Leonie digs inside in the Leadership Academy study.
- You’ve heard of peer effects, where sharp students improve their friends? Meet teacher effects.
- Meeting a Buffalo teacher who has an online partnership with a Scottish counterpart.
- Warlick suggests making textbooks smaller to appeal to the modern-day schoolkid.
- California colleges top the Washington Monthly’s what-do-colleges-do-for-America rankings.
- Eli Broad told WSJ he’d give ED in 08 got a 2 out of 10.
- There may be a dark side to engaging students in schoolwork. (Via always engaging Pondiscio.)
- By 2012, charter schools in New Orleans could outnumber traditional ones 3 to 1.
- Brian Lehrer’s show offers a roundup of public advocate candidate interviews.
- And Kevin Carey points to a school tax credit that he says is a scandalous voucher shell game.