The Editor’s Notes

Need to know

• Task force considers quick start for new testing system in NC schools: Task force reviewing state’s system of end-of-year exams

  The News & Observer | April 13, 2015

• Some Parents Oppose Standardized Testing on Principle, but Not in Practice

  The New York Times | April 13, 2015

• District Extends Wi-Fi to Students in Public Housing

  Education Week | April 13, 2015

• Hillary Clinton and Education: What's Her Record? What Will She Campaign On?

  Education Week | April 12, 2015

• Why Colleges Should Care About the Common Core

  Education Week | April 13, 2015

• Alexander-Murray: This Is What Compromise Looks Like, in a Single Table

  EducationNext | April 13, 2015

• What Undocumented Students Bring to the Classroom

  The Atlantic | April 13, 2015

• Superintendent Ann Clark to present CMS budget Tuesday

  The Charlotte Observer | April 13, 2015

• Bill making assaults on teachers a felony raises questions

  WRAL | April 14, 2015

• South Point student has the ear of school VIPs

  The Gaston Gazette | April 12, 2015

• Creating good citizens and the case for school vouchers

  The News & Observer | April 11, 2015

• The sky isn’t falling on charter schools

  The Greensboro News & Record | April 10, 2015

• Education lottery generates mixed feelings in county

  The Lexington Dispatch | April 10, 2015

• Kentucky: 25 years after reform effort, poorest schools still lag

  AP | April 10, 2015

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