A few notes:

• Edutopia highlights five, count em, FIVE books I think you should read. Just go. Read em if you haven’t already. [Edutopia]
• When discussing the path of citizenship, this is what really matters. Five fifths human. [Los Angeles Times]
• The New York Times editorial board thinks there should be changes made to the way we treat schools in New York City, but don’t propose anything that takes it too far from where Bloomberg took it. [New York Times]
• NYC Educator reluctantly endorses Bill Thompson. The jury is still out for me, but my vote could swing the mayoral race like 20 percentage points. I better get on this. [NYC Educator]
• Dear Common Core dissenters: you might want to take a look at what this website’s saying about the CCSS and Black students. Especially #4 and #2. I’d rather not get confused with this group. [Central Illinois and Beyond]
• These 33 teachers who got the last laugh cracked me the hell up. Buzzfeed wins again. [Buzzfeed]

Quotable:

When I talk about the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S., I like to compare them to what I call the Christian Brotherhood in the U.S. — and this is the religious right and conservative men in this country who are successfully trying to roll back reproductive rights. I always bring up Wendy Davis and what happened in Texas. And I say that Governor Rick Perry is an example of the Christian Brotherhood in this country. What they have in common is, the religious right — and especially the men in the religious right — are obsessed with our vaginas. And I would say stay away from my vagina unless I want you in there. I bring Wendy Davis in Texas in because it doesn’t help to say “over there” and “over here.” We have to look at women’s rights, and the successive fights toward reproductive rights — the Beijing platform from 1995, I was in Beijing at the global conference: If we had a global conference today, we would not achieve a third of what we achieved in Beijing because of this brand of conservatism, especially regarding reproductive rights.

– Mona Eltahawy in Aspen Ideas Fest 2013, when asked a question about women’s reproductive rights in the United States