Intercepts
A listening post monitoring public education and teachers’ unions.

Hat tip to Eduwonk for spreading the word on Early Stories, a blog about early childhood education and the media’s coverage of same. It’s the brainchild of Richard Colvin of the Hechinger Institute. Colvin used to cover the education beat for the Los Angeles Times and is a free thinker to boot.

I’m happy to see newspaper folks in the education blogosphere. As with most bloggable issues, however, education could stand more reporting and less commenting.

Lots of stories “break” in the political and military blogs, but it seems to be rare in the education field. If I’m just missing those out there doing original reporting, let me know. I’d like to give them a plug if I can.

The National Education Association presented oral arguments this morning before the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an attempt to revive its lawsuit against the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act. The lawsuit was dismissed by Chief U.S. District Judge Bernard A. Friedman last November.

No telling how long it will take for a decision, but it’s clear the loser will appeal.

This largely pro-union editorial in the Daily Times of Pakistan contains some interesting insights on teacher unionism around the world. Worth a look.

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1) Your Margins Are Too Wide
2) Open Message to Unidentified Source
3) The Most Pleasant Exhaustion
4) Last Week’s Intercepts
5) Quote of the Week

The California Teachers Association wants to use school mailboxes for political endorsement handouts.

“It’s our soapbox,” said Priscilla Winslow, assistant chief counsel for the California Teacher Association, “and we maintain that we can say anything on that soapbox.”

Funny, I don’t remember CTA paying for that soap.