A few notes:

• Pernille Ripp writes up a few lessons she’s learned that could inspire some blog posts. [Blogging Through The Fourth Dimension]
• Renee Moore gets a bit radical in her post on helping our most impoverished students. Do you have the courage? [EdWeek Teacher]
• Malala’s fine. Still fearless. Still awesome. [GOOD]
• Dana Goldstein calls out Obama on his own class size record. [Dana Goldstein]
• Ariel Sacks wants us to take teacher leadership beyond the token help. It ain’t cool. [EdWeek Teacher]
• The National Council of La Raza wants to combat child poverty. Here’s how to help. [NCLR]

Quotable:

It takes courage to stare down those who have profited so handsomely from this wretched state of affairs and realign our national budgetary priorities to match our rhetoric (viz-a-viz, “Children are our future”). According to The Nation, ending the U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan means $44 billion that could be spent on something else. That same article notes that $1 billion spent on education produces over twice as many, and better-paying jobs than the same amount spent on the military. What it would take to put every child in America in a well-built, well-staffed, well-run school could be easily shaved from the Pentagon budget with no danger to our national defense.

– Renee Moore