Editor's Note: This is our weekly news roundup of education-related events nationwide and in our launch regions, compiled by one of our amazing interns.
National:
+ Conn. district moves to online textbooks (New York Times)
+ Is AP a formula for failure? (Washington Post)
+ Clemson manipulated rankings (USA Today)
+ How to fast-track good teachers (Ed Weeek)
+ Commencement addresses words of wisdom (NPR)
+ Beauty school and Chemistry major become more and more similar (New York Times)
+ Reeducating veterans to become teachers (Washington Post)
+ Educational inequality begins at birth (Ed Week)
+ Ohio graduation canceled after wide-spread cheating (USA Today, New York Times)
+ Value of $125k teachers (New York Times)
+ Performance based funding (Ed Week)
DC Metro:
+ Alternative testing on the rise (Washington Post)
+ Making ESOL teaching more interactive (Washington Post)
Detroit:
+ Detroit to go under mayoral control? (Detroit News)
New York:
+ Using Squash to put students in college (New York Times)
+ Paying for grades pays off (New York Post)
+ Special Ed advocates weary (Gotham Schools)
+ Bronx schools = Prison? (bronxteach.com)
+ NYC charter rush (New York Post)
+ More NYC schools make volunteering graduation requirement (Daily News)
+ New NYC math workbook (Gotham Schools)
+ NYC charter schools cited as success (New York Post)