Practice makes perfect. The best athletes and musicians never stop practicing. Principal Katie Yezzi says the same is true for educators: “The key to workplace satisfaction is doing a job well, and our most powerful tool for ensuring that is practice.” (New York Times)

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In the latest entry in an extended back-and-forth between Edwize and The Quick & The Ed on teacher policy, Leo Casey holds forth on the limitations of standardized testing. Some of it is quite thoughtful, particularly in distinguishing the union position–pro-standards, pro-standardized testing in limited contexts–from the absolutist anti-standards & testing people here.