Weekend Reading: Stuff You Might Have Missed
Over the weekend I try and check out magazines and other long-form sites for education-related coverage that I don't get to during the week and share them via Twitter. Here are some of the best from this past weekend:
NYT: Creating a TV show to persuade young women to become hackers http://ht.ly/qdsdq
PolitiFact rates "mostly false" Ravitch's claim that test scores have gone down since NCLB http://ht.ly/qdjSk
Longform podcast interview with Malcolm "Anti-Small Class" Gladwell http://ht.ly/qdrW7
Steubenville HS Staffers Outraged at Treatment of Indicted IT Director - The Atlantic Wire http://ht.ly/qcqHm
Leonarda and the School Bus: France's Roma Fight : The New Yorker ht.ly/qdVA5
CSNY, Arcade Fire Unplug At 27th Annual Bridge School Benefit | Rolling Stone ht.ly/qdVLb
Report: American Education Isn't Mediocre—It's Deeply Unequal - Julia Ryan - The Atlantic ht.ly/qdOo4
Is Facebook Safe for Kids? In 2004, the online...ht.ly/qdN5W
The Macroeconomics 101 of Cheating http://ht.ly/qcvEA
Rolling Out an iPad Pilot Program, With Eyes Wide Open | MindShift ht.ly/qdMLO
Barnard’s Spar, Ann Tisch on Schools for Women, Girls (Audio) ht.ly/qdMDU
Is Ethical Parenting Possible? -- New York Magazineht.ly/qdJHo Just ask your children.
Game Changer Chicago (GCC) Design Lab at UofC creates alt reality game for at risk youth http://ht.ly/qdhVv #edtech @gtoppo