Remainders: NY’s Race to the Top bid a contender for most jargon | GothamSchools

Remainders: NY’s Race to the Top bid a contender for most jargon | GothamSchools

Remainders: NY’s Race to the Top bid a contender for most jargon

by Anna Phillips

• New York’s RttT application has some sentences only the most jargon literate can decipher.
• The point spread among RttT finalists is so close, it’ll all come down to states’ presentations.
• A new study finds numerous problems with the common standards movement.
• To raise money for Haiti, adults pledged money to P.S. 7 students for their “playathon.”
• A first-year teacher wonders how young teachers should go about distancing themselves from students.
• City Room’s Complaint Box admonishes those who display their brilliant acts of parenting too loudly.
• Emmy Partin writes: states that are finalists for RttT but don’t win could suffer in round two.
• Space-sharing at P.S. 198 and the Lower Lab school isn’t the crisis some say it is, a parent writes.
• The city wants to move one of Eva Moskowitz’s charter schools out of P.S. 123 and bring another one in.
• A member of the UFT caucus ICE says it may be an opposition group, but it approves of some things.
• Be sure to pick up the Sunday New York Times as Elizabeth Green’s story is on the cover.
• Adults surveyed about their experience with high school guidance gave counselors slow marks.
• And Joel Klein ran up the City Hall steps yesterday, right past people protesting his policies.