Dig deeper.  Four things to keep in mind while reading today’s release of the Met Life Survey of the American Teacher. (Eduwonk)

“The cost of college is a bargain,” according to this chart. (The Atlantic)

 “It’s like David vs. Goliath, but David’s got midterms.” A George Mason University student (and Navy vet) sued the school for in-state tuition status—and won. (Washington Post)<Continue Reading »

New research shows many students struggling with literacy. “Recent findings from an expert panel of reading researchers noted that approximately 8 million adolescents struggle with literacy in middle and high school.” The most common problem is reading comprehension. (Institute of Education Sciences)

PIE Network expands. PIE Network has expanded to 34 members located inContinue Reading »

More from the National Conference of State Legislatures: “In FY09, 31 state pension plans were under the 80% level considered fiscally sound -Pew Ctr data #ncsl.” Check out more live tweeting from Kris Amundson.

School choice hits a roadblock—transportation. Students attending one of New Jersey’s 56 new Choice schools are stuck without transportation if they choose a school more than 20 Continue Reading »

Missouri university system contemplates capping enrollment. Warren Erdman, chairman of Board of Curators: “You can’t have unlimited enrollment growth at the same time that you have chronic reductions in state support. That’s just a business model that can’t be sustained forever.” (STLtoday)

In other Missouri news, law bans teacher-student Facebook friendshipContinue Reading »

Residency programs for cops, too. Dean Esserman, who served as chief of police in Providence, RI for eight and a half years, had the idea to start a police residency program after fighting cancer in a teaching hospital. He stated, “People could perceive a teaching police department as something that is arrogant: ‘Come and learn from us; we will teach the world,’ but I look at a teaching police Continue Reading »

NCLB reauthorization stalled by politics. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.): “I think [the holdup] has a lot less to do with NCLB and with education than it does with politics and Washington at this moment. The reason I say this is that, if you had a rally tomorrow on the Capitol to keep No Child Left Behind the same, there’s not a single person that would show up for that rally.” (HuffContinue Reading »

No More NCLB for Idaho Superintendent of Public instruction Tom Luna wrote a letter to Arnie Duncan letting him know that Idaho will no longer follow NCLB and will instead use its own accountability system. (Politics K-12)

Education Data Galore A new website, www.EdBudgetProject.org, weaves together multiple sources of education data into a single place. Every school and district page inContinue Reading »

Journalist Jose Antonio Vargas comes out as an undocumented immigrant to advocate for the DREAM Act. “I convinced myself that if I worked enough, if I achieved enough, I would be rewarded with citizenship. I felt I could earn it. I’ve tried. Over the past 14 years, I’ve graduated from high school and college and built a career as a journalist, interviewing some of the most famous people in the Continue Reading »

New  Study Questions the value of the ACT as a predictor of college success, to the chagrin of thousands of high school seniors.  (Education Week)

From Pam Allyn’s “Against the Whole-Class Novel.” “Let’s motivate our students to become curators of their reading lives. With our guidance, they will discover the texts they want to stay up late to read. And they will come to school theContinue Reading »

California Governor Jerry Brown’s recent proposal to kill funding for California’s troubled longitudinal data system is sparking a renewed debate about the value of data among California policymakers and practitioners.

To be sure, CALPADS, the California system, has a poor track record. It’s an over-budget, not fully functional project that even if flawlessly executed, Continue Reading »