Remainders: Celebrities take up the teacher quality debate
- “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.