Friday, March 5, 2010 — A collection of education headlines and features from the national media and blogosphere published over the past week.
• This weekend’s big New York Times Magazine story investigates how to build a better teacher. (via The New York Times)
• Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation unveiled the results of a national survey of 40,000 public school teachers.
• Central Falls High School in Rhode Island is close to reaching compromise with its Teachers’ Union after the superintendent threatened to fire the entire staff. (via The Washington Post)
• In California, student protestors marched against budget cuts and rising tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities. (via AP)
• 16 finalists were announced for the government’s Race to the Top competition: Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington D.C., South Carolina and Tennessee. (via CNN)
