Big Education Ape: Remainders: Celebrities take up the teacher quality debate

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

by Anna Phillips

“From one man without children to another,” John Legend tells Bill Maher, “you’re off base.”
Arne Duncan is taking two rounds of questions tomorrow on his blueprint of ESEA.
Eric Nadelstern makes the case for having the first week of school next year be only one day.
Democracy Now interviews former Khalil Gibran Academy principal Debbie Almontaser.
Accountable Talk says the union should tie any rubber room deal to four percent raises.
Hopeful that Michael Mulgrew would be fresh blood, a UFT member says he’s disappointed.
Norm enters Grady High School to distribute election fliers and encounters the opposition.
Flypaper has 10 questions for Race to the Top finalists giving presentations this week.
A teacher says the flip side of blaming teachers for everything is not giving students enough credit.
Diane Ravitch calls Newsweek’s education story a “parody of a right-wing rant.”
For every good idea the Obama admin has on education, they have a bad one, writes Jay Greene.
American Spectator wonders whether unions running charter schools will end up hating their contracts.
Parents don’t love a PA state senator’s idea to punish parents if their children commit multiple crimes.
And learning from Chicago, Cleveland is worried about mixing students from closing schools.