Friday's ed news:
More than two dozen Missouri lawmakers want to give teachers the freedom to bear guns [2]. Indiana already allows designated teachers to bring guns [3] to school.
Parents are rushing to buy bullet-proof backpacks [4] for their children.
The U.S. Department of Education took four years to release data indicating federal preschool program Head Start [5]does not benefit students.
A tax-sponsored Colorado university gives illegal immigrants cheaper tuition [6] than U.S. citizens.
Middle-school students in Maine start using a computer program for math homework [7].
View the best charter schools [8]in the country.
Atlanta Public Schools must top withholding local property tax money from charter schools, [9] a judge has ruled.
Thursday's ed news:
1. Texas lawmakers [10] propose tax-credit school choice legislation [11].
2. No law can stop evil like the Newtown shooting [12].
3. Investigative reporting reveals Wall Street financial game-players unethically influence government rules [13] on for-profit colleges and make a windfall.
4. Tennessee’s governor is hedging on his support for vouchers [14].
5. During a budget crisis, a Virginia Beach school district spent $300,000 [15] on hotels, flights, local restaurants, and Weight Watchers.
6. A Minnesota exemption allows guns in schools [16].
7. College diversity requirements penalize Asians [17] for performing better.
8. Early adopters of test score-tied teacher evaluations [18] discuss what does and doesn't work.
9. Indiana charter school [19] students score higher than their traditionally schooled peers.
10. The Common Core will mean fewer U.S. students ever read Charles Dickens [20], write Charles Chieppo and Jamie Gass.
Wednesday's top ten:
1. Chicago teachers union president Karen Lewis says [21]a non-union program placing elite college graduates in urban schools “kills” like the Newton school shooting [22]. Meanwhile, Chicago reporters refuse to report union workers marching with socialist signs [23].
2. Did Wisconsin’s controversial Act 10 lead to a wave of double dippers [24] collecting state pensions and wages simultaneously?
3. A Louisiana judge upholds [25] most of the state’s tenure reforms.
4. South Carolina [26] and Texas [27] join the states considering legislation to let teachers bear arms. Virginia's governor said it's something to think about [28]. Teachers are flooding gun classes [27]. Michigan's governor vetoed a bill to let teachers concealed carry [29], saying it didn't allow hospitals and daycares to opt out.
5. The Ohio senate passes an A-F school grading [30] system.
6. Minnesota students can’t pass a basic high school math exam [31] to graduate, so instead of addressing their problems educators argue the exam should be dropped.
7. American education is no longer the great equalizer [32].
8. The Chicago Tribune publishes an internal document hinting at the city's school closing plan [33].
9. The nation’s largest teachers unions are going to show teachers how to teach the Common Core [34] national education standards.
10. Why going to college won't necessarily increase your income [35].
Tuesday's ed top ten:
1. Resources for schools and parents on how to help children respond to the Connecticut school shooting [36]. In 2008, a Texas school district let teachers concealed carry. [37]
2. In Minnesota [38], California [39], Missouri [40], South Dakota [41], and Michigan [42], lawmakers consider allowing teachers to bear arms.
3. "Right-to-work legislation [43]gives people more liberty, and therefore more ability to pursue happiness, by making our associations voluntary instead of forced."
4. The Wisconsin Department of Education wants $19,969.49 to tell taxpayers [44]about its diversity initiative.
5. Ending suspensions would exacerbate racial achievement gaps and disproportionately harm African-American students [45]by increasing classroom disruption and reducing learning in predominantly-black schools.
6. Some people irrationally fear business involvement in education. [46]
7. A task force of 25 states recommends that teacher preparation and evaluation be tied [47] to the Common Core.
8. Test makers are considering how to learn more information about children [48]than just their achievement, such as family income, access to the Internet, and number of books in the home.
9. The University of Missouri fights to keep course outlines secret [49].
10. Parents volunteer hours [50] in school are valued at $54 billion.
Monday's ed top ten:
1. Was the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting [51] a school or societal problem? A former U.S. education secretary says schools should arm employees [52]