BLOGS: Best Comments & Catches Of The Day

Is there any pen better than an inky, slim, retractable Pilot V7 RT? No, there is not. (Though the stainless steel retractable Sharpie looks cool, too.)

Four of seven turnarounds see progress, high schools now on deck Catalyst
Half to 75 percent of the teachers in the AUSL turnarounds come from AUSL’s yearlong training academy and are used to working collaboratively with a common purpose.

Does This Make Me A School Supplies Pimp?? Flowers and Sausages
As I casually sipped my coffee and flipped back and forth between the opening banter on Regis and Kelly and the Golden Girls...I caught a commercial for something called the Expo Click Retractable Dry Erase Marker.

Should High Schools Bar Average Students From College-Level Courses and Tests? Uncle Jay
Fifteen years ago, when I discovered that many good high schools prevented average students from taking demanding courses, I thought it was a fluke, a mistake that would soon be rectified.

And the Livin' is Easy... Nancy Flanagan
It's time for the annual round of teachers-in-summer blogs.

Getting the Facts Straight on the Teacher Incentive Fund  CAP
Robin Chait and Raegen Miller debunk myths about the Teacher Incentive Fund, which supports performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems in high-needs schools.

Education Reform and the Freedom to Mod Learning Now
Dear Blogger:  We have received 473 nominations for the top 100 language blog 2009 competition.

It’s a Mega “Free For All!” Jim Moulton
Wow.  Microsoft has announced that in 2010 it will begin giving away a version of its flagship Office productivity suite as an online toolset.