Friday's ed news:
1. How the fiscal cliff deal [2] affects education spending.
2. Virginia's governor [3]wants to grade schools A-F, host Teach for America, and give struggling students iPads and more tutoring.
3. People learn and accomplish less when working in groups [4].
4. Another Texas district uses GPS trackers on students [5]--but with student and parent consent.
5. Why would elite college students give up high salaries to teach [6]?
6. The New York governor's school reform plan has been tried before and found wanting [7].
7. An Indiana state senator files a bill to let schools require students to say the Lord's Prayer in school [8].
8. Endind racial preferences [9] in college admissions increases desegregation.
9. South Dakota lawmakers would like to spend more on schools [10].
10. Michigan's school funding surplus [11] won't be enough.
Thursday's ed news:
1. Watch Mr. Wright [12] teach his students physics and love.
2. What's ahead for school choice [13]?
3. A Maryland school suspends a first grader [14] for pointing his finger and saying "pow."
4. Head Start is a dead end [15], writes Larry Sand.
5. North Carolina's governor wants education reform [16].
6. View the evidence that public schools have begun to share private information about children [17] without parents' consent.
7. Arizona's innovative school choice program gets bigger [18] this week.
8. In 10 states, advocacy groups are suing for more education money [19] from taxpayers.
9. New York's schools commission suggests [20] schools as health centers, longer school days, and 4-year-old preschool.
Wednesday's ed news:
1. Find out what national education initiatives [21] are currently developing.
2. Education is a hot topic in Kansas' forthcoming legislative session [22]. Missouri's governor talks about his education legislation priorities [23].
3. No one has "any idea" how massive open online courses will make money [24].
4. A special ed teacher discusses introducing iPads [25] with her students, and her top picks from 900 apps.
5. A Utah lawmaker floats an idea to fund state preschool with private investments [26]. If the kids don't learn, private investors lose their money.
6. California's governor wants to reshape school finance [27].
7. Boston's mayor wants more state control [28] over failing schools and more regulations on charter schools.
8. Should New Jersey stop relying on property taxes [29] for schools?
9. New Hampshire will soon open virtual schools [30].
10. Is now the best and worst [31] time to teach?
Tuesday's ed news:
1. Schools should be given freedom to set their own security measures [32], the Orange County Register opines.
2. Is the Wisconsin department of education hiding outrageous political spending [33] disguised as teacher professional development?
3. An education journal complains that testing and standards make it difficult for teachers to indoctrinate students into leftism [34].
4. The Internet will remake higher education [35], soon.
5. A Philadelphia teen whose teacher mocked her Romney/Ryan t-shirt [36] has decided to sue for free speech infringement.
Monday's ed news:
1. The number of Arizona students using voucher-like K-12 education savings accounts [37] has tripled.
2. College textbook prices [38] have increased 812 percent since 1978—faster than healthcare costs, the housing bubble, and college tuition.
3. Israel puts armed teachers and guards [39] in classrooms. So do many California schools [40].
4. Will online learning reverse liberal bias [41] in education?
5. The Common Core English standards are confusing [42] for teachers and students, writes Dr. Sandra Stotsky. Not only that, it will surely diminish students' exposure to literature [43], opine the Los Angeles Times editors.
6. How Georgia is improving reading instruction [44].
7. African-American Chicago teachers who were laid off from low-performing schools are suing, claiming race discrimination [45]. The majority of Chicago teachers are racial minorities.
8. A Missouri school board gives teachers leave [46] to be union reps and Democratic lawmakers, but not to be Republican lawmakers.
9. Delaware is one of 20 states offering anonymous surveys to teachers [47] about school conditions, at a federally-sponsored cost of $80,000.
10. Mississippi lawmakers consider how to allow charter schools [48].
For last week's School Reform News roundup, click here. [49]
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