- The mayor will give the principal of P.S. 24, Christina Fuentes, a Sloan Award tomorrow.
- A WNYC reporter visits a juvenile justice center and reports back on the conditions, funding problems.
- Newsweek says firing bad teachers and hiring good ones is imperative, nevermind the gray areas.
- A New Orleans charter school is built on teachers who work long hours for little, but can that continue?
- Diane Ravitch talks to Brian Lehrer about her new book and her change of mind.
- Edwize: more charter school regulation, not less, could have helped NY in its RttT bid.
- Patrick Sullivan, the parent of two Lower Lab students, says the Village Voice story got it wrong.
- Teacher quality isn’t the only important factor schools can control, school environment matters, too.
- Schools build around team structures are best for training teachers, writes a UFT blogger.
- Look for Race to the Top to be franchised out to other policy areas, write Kevin Carey.
- To repeat the eternal question: is what teachers do like what doctors or lawyers do?
- Teachable Moment is annoyed that the tenor of RttT coverage resembles that of a horse-race.
- And there’s no better cure for a Monday than a P.S. 22 performance. This time: Lisztomania.
Source: Anna Phillips