- At a time when civics education is lagging, What So Proudly We Hail provides an invigorating look at what it means to be an American—using selections from our nation’s great writers and leaders (like Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Francis Scott Key, and Martin Luther King, Jr.). The corresponding website offers further civics perspective—and, soon, will feature study guides and video discussions for educators.
- As the school year draws to a close, so does the turnaround experiment at Central Falls High School. (Remember? Up in Rhode Island? The place that fired all its teachers?) In case you’re curious, it wasn’t too successful.
- Teach For America is bringing another 5,200 corps members into classrooms come September (for a total of 9,300 first- and second-year teachers). Of the group, 23 percent have most recently been graduate students or professionals, not newly minted college grads.
- The Wisconsin Supreme Court has spoken. And Scott Walker’s contentious collective-bargaining law will remain intact. But, even though the law is now official, don’t expect to see the pushback against it end anytime soon.
- The latest American Educator is out, and includes several interesting articles—notably a great one by Dan Willingham on how teachers can increase students’ self-control.