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Here are news and opinion stories educators, advocates, policy wonks and makers are talking about today:
News and Analysis
One day each month, hundreds of teachers, school leaders, and district officials in Kentucky meet to discuss issues regarding implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. They propose lessons, develop assessments, and pore over materials designed to help prepare other teachers in their home schools and districts to implement the standards. (Education Next)
In the war between the rich and the poor, I’m enlisting on the side of the underdog — the rich. What a drubbing they’ve been taking! Across the nation, but particularly in cities such as New York and Washington, the rich are incessantly accused of being slyly manipulative and self-serving. For instance, they support charter schools. Apparently, there is nothing worse. (Washington Post)
Maryland
In many ways, public schools are gated communities, dead zones. They’re shuttered after dark and during the summer, open to parents and students while in session but not to the larger community. A new public school in one of the poorest neighborhoods in East Baltimore wants to challenge the blueprint. Designed by Rob Rogers, of Rogers Partners in New York, Henderson-Hopkins, as it’s called, aspires to be a campus for the whole area — with a community center, library, auditorium and gym — as well as a hub for economic renewal. (New York Times)
New Jersey
But survey of educators who took part in tryout of new system shows most not worried about impact on jobs, tenure. (NJ Spotlight)
New York
After botched deliveries hobbled schools as they tried to adopt new curriculums last year, the city Department of Education has overhauled the way schools will order and receive city-recommended teaching materials this year. (Chalkbeat)