Friday's ed news:
1. One in five Arizona students [2] is now eligible for a voucher-like education savings account.
2. Learning basic math [3] predicts SAT success, a new study finds.
3. College admission will get less competitive [4] in the next decade because of fewer kids.
4. NYC schools spend $6,900 per student per year on busing [5].
5. Iowa should end its luxurious teacher sick pay policies [6], the Des Moines Register editors write.
6. North Carolina's education board will consider allowing online charter schools [7] in the state.
7. Catch the testing difference between content and "real world" learning [8]. Hint: "real-world" learning teaches kids less.
8. Arkansas is trying out a new teacher residency program [9].
9. Janesville, Wisconsin school administrators now get more money if students learn more [10].
10. Self-control, not self-esteem [11], leads to success.
Thursday's ed news:
1. Parents have won [12] the nation's first successful Parent Trigger in Adelanto, California. Another set of parents is starting the process [13] in Connecticut.
2. Indiana lawmakers debate whether voucher students should first be required to try public schools [14] for a year. The opposing state senator will likely win [15].
3. In Arizona, the Common Core means fuzzy math [16]. In California, it means fuzzy tests [17].
4. Education Week ranks states [18] by equity, amount spent, number of kids in early childhood education, and a host of other statist assumptions. It put West Virginia in the top 10 though the state has the third-worst academic performance [19].
5. A Texas judge rules schools can force students to wear radio tracking chips [20].
6. A study attacking online education giant K12 [21], Inc. is flawed, says a new study.
7. Staten Island's education council votes to place retired policemen in schools with guns [22].
8. A Pennsylvania coalition starts a website promoting professional freedom for teachers [23].
9. Kentucky is one of eight states that don't allow charter schools [24], and a new bill won't likely change that, its sponsor says.
10. Maine officials fight [25] over rejected charter school applications.
Wednesday's ed news:
1. Liberal education academics were the most prolific and most-noted [26]in 2012.
2. Michelle Rhee promotes vouchers and a Parent Trigger [27] for Tennessee.
3. Computer-heavy Rocketship schools may switch how they have kids use computers [28], PBS reports, a big change for a vaunted tech-driven system. Rocketship responds to the critique [29].
4. Common Core tests will de-emphasize memory [30] and emphasize non-content "skills."
5. A university diversity officer suspended for signing a petition [31] calling for a statewide referendum on marriage in Maryland was reinstated Monday.
6. Researcher Matthew Ladner discusses a brilliant school choice innovation [32]: Education savings accounts.
7. An academic not keen on basic learning nevertheless raises some interesting questions about the Common Core [33]. Here's some of his startling academic work [34] on the topic.
8. Washington's teachers union should focus on improving education [35] rather than attacking charter schools, opine the Seattle Times editors.
9. Chicago teachers union president Karen Lewis thinks rich people don't mind killing you [36].
10. Another major study finds student test scores accurately identify [37] good and bad teachers.
Tuesday's ed news:
1. All Georgia parents could pull the Parent Trigger [38] to convert their childrens' school to a charter under a forthcoming bill.
2. The education establishment again clashes with former DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee over her new grades on state education policies [39]. Her organization awarded 28 Ds and no As.
3. See the top ten education quotes [40] of 2012.
4. DC charter schools expel students [41] at far higher rates than traditional public schools nearby.
5. Iowa's governor outlines his retake on education reform [42].
6. What tech capabilities [43] must schools have to implement the Common Core standards?
7. Maine's governor wants to eliminate the state's cap on charter schools [44].
8. Progressive teachers [45] have changed U.S. culture, writes Thomas Sowell.
9. Missouri's lieutenant governor wants charter schools available in all school districts [46].
10. A federal labor board has taken jurisdiction over state charter schools [47].
Monday's ed news:
1. Indiana may expand its statewide vouchers [48].
2. "Louisiana's school choice pilot program throws a lifeline to disenfranchised and forgotten children [49] trapped in the state's lowest performing schools," writes the state's board of education president.
3. A Virginia lawmaker resuscitates the "Tebow bill [50]" to let homeschooled students play public school sports.
4. The Friedman Flyer gives a roundup of forthcoming state education proposals [51].
5. Lawmakers must reform Illinois pensions by Wednesday [52]or start over.
6. Twenty percent of Newark teachers chose to receive