More IDEA And Other Odds and Ends

Contra Costa Times updates the status of the GAO investigation into Department of Education grants to K-12 and ABCTE.

Blogger Dave Shearon deconstructs some NCLB mythology.

Washington Post looks at teen drivers and minority higher ed application rates. Post also reports that Educate is planning to expand rapidly in the tutoring market and takes a look at Sallie Mae, a must-read if you follow the issue.

NYT’s Schemo unpacks the new IDEA bill. Boston Globe looks at some of the problems the new law seeks to address. Via Jacobs.

Pete Wright of WrightsLaw has put together a marked-up version of major changes to IDEA.