Joe Nathan looks at some collaboration around what works in MN.

SEED is expanding to Cincinnati and needs a founding head of school.

What does this AZ episode say, if anything in your view, about the quality of education for ELL’s?

It seems everyone has an opinion about what colleges and universities should do with their endowments. Use them to lower tuition! Let students attend for free! Improve facilities! Hire more professors! When the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) released its annual report on college endowments last week, the big numbers grabbed headlines — Harvard’s endowment, the nation’s largest, grew 15% to $31.7 billion. Less attention was directed to Southern Virginia University’s endowment of $574,000, which won’t provide too many scholarships at a place that costs more than $18,000 a year. I had lunch with a college president a few weeks ago whose school has an endowment of about $20 million, which may sound like a lot of money, but he was consumed with fundraising efforts just to make ends meet. So the next time you hear someone pitching an idea for what a college should do with its endowment, think about these five reasons why the reality of how college endowments work is different than the rhetoric…

Endowment leaders are always looking for good tips.  Here’s one – you can read the entire column and the five reasons via this link for free.

Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson’s school report card idea juxtaposed against report cards more generally in this Sac Bee editorial.

Here’s more on the MDRC small schools study.

Public Charter School Board in DC is looking for a communications director.

Common Good is looking at obsolete law at a forum in DC tomorrow morning – featuring Senator Mark Warner.

A friend sent along this fun and quirky video about teaching.