Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Ragland: Until city and state usurpers coordinate their efforts it's all just politics. ** A new study finds art and music not impacted by testing mania. ** Commentary: "What does it say...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Eduflack: "Education can learn a lot from business, both good and bad. But more efficient and effective? ... And if our economy is any indication, our confidence in the efficiency and effectiveness...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** A homeschooler wonders if some like them will get swept up the DISD's truancy crackdown. ** Districts see kids and dollar signs. ** We're short on math and science teachers. Still. **...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** Our globe-trotting staff writer explores a topic we kicked around a while back: What can we learn from the Finns? ** Janet Morrison is heartened by the "visioning" paper put forth by...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** A UT-Dallas researcher finds that high quality pre-school matters for low- income DISD kids. ** The Core Knowledge blog picks up our story from yesterday about truancy court but unfortunately doesn't add...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** It's as if the judge was saying: "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son." ** On a somewhat related note, Dallas may give kids another reason to...
What the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** Back-to-school related stories from the weekend papers and this morning: Early College, an editorial (It's all about the kids, folks.), from Fox 4; Point of Contact with a district principal,...