Ten Things You Should’ve Read About Education This Week (in case you haven’t already)
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If you’re interested in the questions that come up in the debates around zoned versus citywide elementary schools – issues about access and prohibitive housing costs and the importance of socioeconomic diversity to student achievement – this is chock full of important links. (Loosely related to this was a piece in the New York Times about a housing fight in Texas. Then there’s this, on political discussions in Washington, D.C., about whether charters schools can be neighborhood schools. I don’t have time to connect the dots at the moment.)
2. Believing in City Schools, Adam Bednar, North Baltimore Patch, April 26, 2012
The Village Parents have been models of active citizenship when it comes to informing the community about the
