Did Amy Chua’s Daughter Really Need a Tiger Mom to Get Into Harvard? (Time.com)
Time.com – Now that her eldest cub is bound for the Ivy League, the Tiger Mom has been tamed
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Here’s an idea: Teachers and school officials unite on education reform (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Can school teachers and administrators be friends? Secretary of Education Arne Duncan hopes more of them will be, and this week he has helped to trumpet a handful of success stories of labor-management collaboration in a bid to lessen the acrimony that can stifle education reform efforts.
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NYC mayor’s choice for schools stays under wraps (AP)
AP – The magazine executive Mayor Michael Bloomberg chose to lead New York’s sprawling public school system has spent the week shuttling between her Park Avenue apartment building and her office at Hearst Magazines, shadowed by City Hall aides who are briefing her on education issues.
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Worker decries for-profit school tactics, to testify (Reuters)
Reuters – An employee at a for-profit college, due to testify before a senate committee this week, told lawmakers in a letter that she was pressured to twist information about former students to make them look more successful than they were.
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Obama to defend education plan (Politico)
Politico – President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will deliver major speeches this week on their $4.35 billion Race to the Top school reform program, pushing back against complaints that it promotes unproven methods and ignores long-standing inequities in public education.
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