- Some schools close when faced with declining enrollment, others import students. A public school in Maine is now recruiting Chinese pupils to bolster its enrollment, and asking them to pay $30,000 tuition to boot.
- Education may have changed in the past 100 years, but the room in which it happens really has not. Join Slate’s crowdsourcing project and offer suggestions for the twenty-first century classroom.
- Forget political ads. See how gubernatorial candidates match up on education issues, thanks to this report card from Education Reform Now and the Education Equality Project.
- Drumroll please… The one million dollar Broad Prize for Urban Education this year goes to Gwinnett County Schools, GA. Runners up—also rewarded by Eli and his foundation—are: Charlotte-Mecklenberg Schools, NC; Montgomery County Public Schools, MD; Socorro Independent School District, TX; and, Ysleta Independent School District, TX.
- Teachers, grab your pitchforks! New Huffington post blogger, Mrs. Mimi, calls for respect for classroom educators—including from their unions.
- Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, who has done little to address a jaw-dropping $8 billion budget shortfall, called his gubernatorial opponent, John Kasich, “reckless” at a campaign speech this week. The Columbus Dispatch opines: the pot is calling the kettle black.
