News: Chicago Clout Story Goes National
Education" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); ">Chicago Schools Chief, Now an Obama Aide, Had V.I.P. List for Top Choices NYT: In July, Mr. Huberman announced an internal investigation of the city’s 52 application-based elementary and high schools. The president of the Chicago school board, Michael Scott, who had been subpoenaed in the federal investigation, committed suicide in November. Education" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(51, 153, 204); ">Raleigh Changes Busing Policy AP: The school board in Raleigh voted 5 to 4 Tuesday to roll back a policy that buses students to achieve diversity. 3 arrested as NC school board reverses busing plan AP: 
The school board in North Carolina's capital city narrowly agreed Tuesday to roll back a policy that buses students to achieve diversity, following a tense meeting at which three people were arrested, others were forcibly removed and heated arguments echoed passions from an era past. Are Teachers Unions To Blame For Failing Schools? NPR: Do unions really deserve more of the blame than shrinking budgets and other problems? A group of experts takes on that question in the latest Intelligence Squared U.S.debate. First All-Male Charter Sends Entire Class To CollegeNPR: Chicago's only all-male charter school, Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men - Englewood Campus, is graduating its first class this year. Every member of the class has been accepted to a four-year university. Former Bullies Share What Motivated Behavior NPR: In Georgia, a young man killed himself because he could no longer endure his bullies. And in Mass., bullies left a 13-year-old paralyzed. These cases and others like them have focused attention on bully behavior: Why do they do it, and do they change?
Thompson: Good Intentions Vs. Good Results
The past could become prologue for the Obama administration if it does not learn from Diane Ravitch’s masterpiece.
"It's as if a bunch of do-gooders sat together at the NewSchools Venture Fund summit and brainstormed a list of popular reforms ideas, and now they are going to force them upon the states," writes Ravitch, quoting Mike Petrilli's "NCLB2: The Carrot That Feels Like a Stick."