- A SUNY-Buffalo professor tells NPR that K-third graders should be in classes of fewer than 20 students.
- Abacus Mom loves a new comic novel that doubles as a private school admissions manual.
- The MTA gave two subway cars for the students of Transit Tech High School to work on.
- VH1’s Save the Music Foundation will pay for a $30,000 keyboard lab for P.S. 22’s amazing chorus.
- A first year teacher says that sometimes his brain “feels like mashed potatoes.”
- Linda Darling-Hammond is one of a few familiar names on the Common Standards Committee.
- Joanne Jacobs likes the Core Knowledge curriculum, but doesn’t want it mandated city-wide.
- Insideschools student blogger Toni wants her classmates to join the New York City Student Union.
- Quick and the Ed points out that Obama’s “safe schools czar” is not actually a czar.
- And a Chicago school bus driver shares her perspective on youth violence.