The Editor’s Notes

Need to know

• Rethinking Charter School Evaluations When the Gold Standard Is Off the Table

  EducationNext | November 9, 2015

• Are Disruption-Free Schools Only for the Rich?

  EducationNext | November 9, 2015

• Learning English: Accountability, Common Core, and the college-for-all movement are transforming instruction

  EducationNext | November 10, 2015

• Searching for Clarity on Formative Assessment

  Education Week | November 10, 2015

• Geek alert: Hour of Code joins forces with Star Wars

  The Washington Post | November 9, 2015

• The nation’s high school dropout rate has fallen, study says

  The Washington Post | November 10, 2015

• Reformers’ push to improve education is worthy of celebration — but is there a dark side, too? Changing the good vs evil mindset of the education reform debate

  The Hechinger Report | November 10, 2015

• Why aren’t schools in poor communities built to meet local students’ needs?

  The Hechinger Report | November 10, 2015

• Behind The Shortage Of Special Ed Teachers: Long Hours, Crushing Paperwork

  nprEd | November 9, 2015

• Asheville forum highlights education issues

  The Asheville Citizen-Times | November 10, 2015

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