What's Lucy Reading?

New York Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and Commissioner David Steiner did the right thing by raising the state test cut-off scores by which students can be called “proficient” in English and math. Here are thoughtful responses from the principal of Urban Assembly Academy of Arts and Letters, Allison Gaines Pell, and the co-CEOs of Achievement First charter school network.

Do American kids really spend more than seven hours a day in front of electronic media, and four to seven minutes playing outside? This report from the National Wildlife Federation pleads for kids to get out and play (a theme of the Play On 2010 Conference, in which TASC is partnering).

This year’s America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2010, reports that the percentage of children whose parents had secure employment is the lowest since 1996, and the percentage living in poverty is the highest since 1998.

In this speech Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for greater community and parental input into school turnarounds. Responses from the National Journal’s panel of education experts here.