Politics: Redistricting, Campaign Finance, & Collective Bargaining [image: image from images.politico.com]First the debate over education reform turned into the "war on teachers" and then morphed into a debate over collective bargaining for teachers, whose contracts set many of the basic rules under which teachers ...
Video Interlude: Starburst Prom Dress Took Six Years To Make Via Wonkbook and everyone else.
AM News: All Eyes On New Jersey [image: image from webmedia.newseum.org] Duncan visits NJ, says minority teachers needed AP: U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan made several stops in New Jersey on Wednesday, pushing a program aimed at recruiting more teachers to work in urban and ...
Best Blogs: Fallout From "Three Cups Of Tea" Fiasco? [image: Lockers] Columbine Anniversary Bomb Plot? Atlantic Wire: Investigators are looking into whether a pipe bomb that was discovered in a Littleton, Colo. mall was connected to the 12th anniversary of the shooting rampage at nearby Columbine High ...
Cartoon: Sometimes Adults Twitter More Than Kids [image: Liza Donnelly] "Mom -- the rule is, no tweeting in the sandbox.!" via Salon.
Thompson: You Broke It, You Bought It [image: Plate spinning]When I started teaching I was appalled by the conventional wisdom that the job of educators was to "keep the plate spinning" until the end of the school year. Two pieces in the Huffington Post, a reported story by Simone ...
Quote: "Yeah, Just Leave Them Alone" (About Reading) [image: ScreenHunter_11 Apr. 20 14.28] *"A lot of us couldn't read, but those of us who really sucked at it we weren't made fun of. It was more or less, like, yeah, just leave them alone about that issue." * - Jerone (upper left) in a segment from ...
