The Editor’s Notes

Need to know

• Pre-K and Charter Schools: Where State Policies Create Barriers to Collaboration

  EducationNext | July 23, 2015

• Privacy Push Must Not Prevent Personalized Learning

  EducationNext | July 23, 2015

• Arne Duncan’s Wrong Turn on Reform: How Federal Dollars Fueled the Testing Backlash

  The 74 Million | July 22, 2015

• Teaching preschoolers to use computers — along with their parents

  The Hechinger Report | July 23, 2015

• Evaluating teachers: Precise but irrelevant metrics?

  The Hechinger Report | July 24, 2015

• Food for thought: How gardens help students to grow

  The Hechinger Report | July 24, 2015

• Colleges give drifting students maps to help them find their way to graduation

  The Hechinger Report | July 23, 2015

• The Fundamental Way That Universities Are an Illusion

  The Upshot: The New York Times | July 23, 2015

• At the White House, first lady hosts college students who had hard paths

  The Washington Post | July 23, 2015

• NC Supreme Court upholds school voucher program

  The News & Observer | July 23, 2015

• No Child Left Behind’s One Big Achievement? Improved outcomes for special-ed students

  The Atlantic | July 23, 2015

• NC Budget Director offers alternative to sales tax redistribution

  WNCT | July 22, 2015

• Report: Ban On Junk Food In Mass. Schools Is Working

  Learning Lab | July 23, 2015

• The new frontier for Advanced Placement: Online AP lessons, for free

  The Washington Post | July 22, 2015

• White House Hosts School Discipline Summit

  Education Week | July 22, 2015

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