Remainders: Bloomberg and Mulgrew to lobby for federal edujobs bill
- Mayor Bloomberg and UFT chief Michael Mulgrew plan to lobby in D.C. for the teacher job bill. (WSJ)
- Four teacher-bloggers will discuss teacher evaluation and professional development. (Quick and the Ed)
- Nineteen states are still waiting for the feds to greenlight their turnaround plans. (State EdWatch)
- Study: Middle school music classes also help boost algebra scores. (Curriculum Matters)
- How can districts get more creative about summer school? Here are some ideas. (Hechinger Report)
- How much does RTTT include teachers’ voices? More than you think, a professor argues. (Rick Hess)
- After teaching the “Not-So-Magnificent Seven,” Miss Brave is headed to a new school. (Miss Brave)
- A charter school will share space with Horace Mann — a public school in California. (Mission Local)
City family engagement office rolling out new website for parents
While the city is busy looking for a replacement for its Chief Family Engagement Officer Martine Guerrier, one of her initiatives is just getting off the ground.
SchoolSource NYC is a website intended to be a repository for fact-sheets and instructional podcasts and videos parents can use to navigate the school system. The site was quietly launched last summer, but the city is now trying to draw parents’ attention to it.
The Department of Education is paying for the site and they’ve contracted out its production to WNET/Channel Thirteen and the consulting firm RMC Research Corporation. Emily Zyko, the website’s director, told me that