Lame-Duck Congress to Face Education Issues EdWeeK: Each chamber's current version of the spending bill would extend for another year the Obama administration's signature education initiative—the $4.35 ... Tenn. students complain about no ketchup, mustard AP: Students at Memphis City Schools are complaining there's no ketchup. No mustard, either. Calvin Jones, the interim head of food services, said the schools have plenty of bulk condiments, but not enough cafeteria workers to squirt them into little plastic cups... Boston schools at a crossroads Boston Globe (column): The best charter schools in the city, which operate independently of Boston’s central office and teachers union, will turn the world upsidedown to ensure that their kids outperform the suburbs on statewide tests.. America's lesson for British classrooms Telegraph (UK) Using language that could have come from his predecessor George W Bush, Mr Obama has consistently cited education as the country's greatest long-term ... Teens still reading A detailed analysis into the trend on reading for fun - in books, newspapers and magazines - comes from researcher Sandra Hofferth, of University of Maryland, who analyzed the detailed daily time-use diaries of a nationally representative sample of children 12 to 18... D.C. teachers hit dead end in court challenge to layoffs Washington Post: The Washington Teachers' Union's legal challenge to the layoff of 266 educators in October 2009 effectively ended Friday, when a union attorney told a D.C. Superior Court judge that it could find no evidence that Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee contrived a budget crunch to justify the job cuts.
