5 Best Blogs & Tweets [Of Today]: Best/Worst Common Core Defense Ever?

"Gadflies' latest attacks on New York's Common Core exams are the most ignorant yet." Oped in the NYDN ow.ly/AK5PL 

Great story from Chicago Tribune's @lollybowean about what happened to some of @UrbanPrep's 2010 grads ow.ly/AK4dA

New Teachers College book on #diversecharters (among other things) coming out next week: A Smarter Charter http://ow.ly/3p7GPS 

The problem isn't tenure, writes David B. Cohen in @valeriestrauss' The Answer Sheet http://ow.ly/AJrGz  It's, er, something else.

 Four years ago, the case for teacher cams was already being made by @MichaelPetrilli   educationnext.org/lights-camera-…) #teachercams

Today's college freshman were in kindergarten when 9/11 happened & other tdibts via @libbyanelson ow.ly/AKqmx [beneath Vox, but it's a late August week and I obviously have no standards].