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Roosevelt HS will reopen with international focus: The troubled Petworth school, currently being modernized, may offer dual language instruction and international travel when it reopens in 2015. (Post)

Shifting school renovation money: DC Councilmember and mayoral candidate David Catania wants to delay reopening Spingarn High School as a career and technical education center and use the money to pay for improvements at other DCPS schools serving lower grades. (Post)

Teacher accused of cheating on test: DCPS will be firing a teacher at Plummer Elementary who allegedly sneaked a peek at a standardized test in April and used it to create a “study guide” for her students. (Post)

Poverty and education in DC: A new series examines the effects of poverty on a child’s ability to learn, what our public schools are doing to help, and what more could be done. (DCFPI)

City as a classroom: DCPS has created a 30-member task force that will help teachers connect the District’s museums and other attractions to academic skills and themes. (Post)

DC leads the nation in preschool access: Nationally, preschool enrollment declined last year for the first time since 2001, but DC continues to lead the pack by providing preschool to 94% of 4-year-olds and 80% of 3-year-olds. (Post)

More family engagement: DCPS is expanding its partnership with the Flamboyan Foundation, which focuses on strengthening parent-teacher relationships, to 21 schools. (K-12 Parents and the Public, Ed Week)

No more scripted Montgomery sex ed?: County school officials are proposing to abandon required phrasing when middle school teachers explain sexual orientation. (Post)

Absences on snow make-up day: Easter Monday had been scheduled as a day off for Montgomery County schools, and about 20% of students decided to keep it that way. (Post)

School closures and civil rights: Community activists filed complaints with the federal government over closures in Newark, New Orleans, and Chicago. (Post)

Teachers and test scores: A study shows little or no correlation between good teaching and teacher evaluations based on student achievement on tests. (Post)

Teachers’ unions and the Common Core: Opposition to the new education standards from teachers in Chicago, New York, and Tennessee is misguided, says the Post editorial board.

Teens don’t read as much now: Now 27% of 17-year-olds say they hardly ever or never read for pleasure, as compared to 9% back in 1984. (NY Times)

Charters and traditional public schools in NYC: Although one rationale for creating charters was to develop new approaches that other schools could replicate, that hasn’t begun to happen until recently. (NY Times)

Students from educated families lag behind peers abroad: High school students in the US whose parents have college degrees do much worse in math than similar students in South Korea, Poland, Japan, and a number of other countries. (Examiner)