Five Best Blogs: Enzi, Weingarten, and Klein -- Oh, My

Bipartisan? Not So Much Chuck Edwards: Sen. Mike Enzi announced that his earlier vote to approve the committee’s ESEA reauthorization bill did not mean he fully supported it.

Teaching With the Enemy NYT:  You simply cannot fix America’s schools by “scaling” charter schools. It won’t work. Real reform has to go beyond charters — and it has to include the unions.

NY Mag: Bloomberg pushed Klein out before he was ready to go GothamSchools:  New details tucked into a New York Magazine profile of Rupert Murdoch’s daughter Elisabeth seem to confirm that Bloomberg set the timeline for Klein’s departure — and suggest that Klein’s decision to head to Murdoch’s News Corporation was hastily made.

A Failure by Supercommittee Could Cost Early Education Programs CAP: The sequesters affect all mandatory and discretionary spending, both defense and non-defense, with the exception of a list of specific exemptions. The exemptions include various child nutrition and welfare programs, as well as the Pell grant program, but no early childhood education programs.

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Tennessee’s report card on teacher prep programs even cooler than TFA results Fordham Foundation: More telling might be a study showing how average-scoring teacher candidates fared under TFA’s training module or how traditional coursework offered by universities impacts TFA teachers’ effectiveness – or doesn’t. Training between sites, even in the same state, varies quite a bit.

Understanding Diversity: What’s a Parent to Do? Harvard Education Letter:  Broaden Social Network Comfort Zones. Engage in Real Conversations About Diversity. Be Careful Not to Generalize Unsubstantiated Assumptions. Don’t Think of Diversity Awareness as a Destination but as a Journey

News Site Demonstrates Community Journalism With Database on School Vaccination Rates The Education Reporter:  More than three-quarters of the kindergarteners at the Waldorf Peninsula School are not vaccinated.One of the more amazing aspects of this story is the source of the vaccination statistics -- it's the Bay Citizen, a news start-up in its second year of operation.

The most misleading ranking of educators yet The Answer Sheet:  t is Kopp who is powerful, not so much the people on her list.

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According to me the Real reform of America's school has to go beyond charters.. And it has to include the unions..