Over at Legion -- which has been prolific and fascinating lately, and should be on your daily reading list -- Garrett and I are discussing the question of teacher quality. I can't promise you'll be interested, but if you're a wonk or you like the below graph it's probably worth heading over.

Also Mel is defending Gov against Social Studies and Jon-Mark Overvold wrote some badass lyrics for Babar the elephant. Hey -- there's finally a Harvard blog that rivals ours for coherence and predictability!