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What’s wrong with the Vergara ruling
Commentary: What’s wrong with the ruling is that it reinforces a completely false narrative in which incompetent teachers are portrayed as the central problem facing urban schools.EdSource

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Online resource offers help with discipline
Educators who want to implement more positive disciplinary practices can now access an online national repository of research-based alternatives to suspension and expulsion. EdSource

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Preparing Your Child for Common Core Tests
Coming soon to classrooms across the nation: standardized tests to measure students’ mastery of the Common Core, the new academic standards that have been adopted by most states. New York Times

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Student Performance Stalls on SAT, Improves on AP Tests
For the first time, the College Board has combined its release of Advanced Placement, SAT, and Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test scores in a report that generally reflects expanded participation but stagnant performance. Education Week

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Los Angeles Unified’s MiSiS crisis in court, district denies problems
A court order today could end problems caused by MiSiS – Los Angeles Unified’s prematurely launched computer software – at one district school plagued by the buggy software and poor management, according to court documents. Los Angeles Daily News