California Schools Program Would Push Students Toward Civics, Serving Community After Graduation [CBS Sacto, 8/5/14]: The blueprint is designed to get more of California’s students excited about going ot school and taking a public interest well into their adult years.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/08/05/california-schools-program-would-push-students-toward-civics-serving-community-after-graduation/

The Shortening Leash [Slate, 8/6/14]: Six thousand respondents to the Slate survey and the trend is clear: Kids today have a lot less freedom than their parents did.

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/08/slate_childhood_survey_results_kids_today_have_a_lot_less_freedom_than_their.html

Teaching Questioning Skills to Arm Students for Learning [EdWeek, 8/6/14]: Do your students know the difference between open and closed questions? How did you teach them?

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/work_in_progress/2014/08/teaching_questioning_skills_to.html

Senators to Obama: Stop Censoring the Torture Report [The Nation, 8/6/14]: The release of a long-delayed investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency’s post-9/11 interrogation methods was held up yet again on Tuesday after the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee objected to the amount of information that had been censored by the Obama administration.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/180901/senators-obama-stop-censoring-torture-report

Teacher-Tenure Decision Is NOT an Abuse of Judicial Power [Education Next, 7/31/14]: Paul Peterson writes that Vergara precedents are multiple, judge's actions restrained.

http://educationnext.org/teacher-tenure-decision-abuse-judicial-power/