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• A guide to all seven floors of the citywide high school fair, happening in Brooklyn this weekend.
• Why is Chancellor Walcott pushing middle schools when research says they shouldnt exist?
• Photos of a students math work show hes both very clever and also error-prone.
• GEM espionage finds that only 100 people attended E4Es meeting with Chancellor Walcott.
• The UFT is now holding meetings in all five boroughs for teachers in the ATR pool.
• Even when theyre subbing glue for proper dental care, kids say the darndest things.
• A 1969 essay about the intractable problems of urban education.
• President Obama emphasized that NCLB waivers dont mean freedom from accountability.
• Dana Goldstein: The waivers prove the Obama administration is committed to narrow reforms.
• The waivers require states to publicly announce their students college-going rates.
• Richard Kahlenberg: Steven Brill misses the fact that teachers union support reform, too.
• All of a sudden, Republican presidential candidates are talking again about abolishing USDOE.
• A new website shows the recent efforts of FiftyCAN, which pushes for reform at the state level.

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