First Bell: 1-23-13

yes Pamela Tatz / January 23, 2013

A first look at today's most important education news:

American religious schools facing hard times welcome a surge in foreign-student enrollment. (Wall Street Journal)

Education Week finds that teacher colleges are overproducing elementary teachers.

On Tuesday, New York Roman Catholic Archdiocese officially announced that it would close twenty-two elementary schools and two high schools, as it cannot afford to support schools that are not economically self-sufficient. (New York Times)

New Jersey school administrators’ early reactions to the new test-score-based teacher-evaluation pilot program are generally positive. (Hechinger Report)

Just 42 percent of Missouri district officials are confident that the state will meet the technology requirements of the Common Core by 2014-15. (Digital Education)

In below-freezing daytime temperatures, the NYC bus strike continues into its second week, forcing over 100,000 kids to find other means of travel to school. The New York Times supports the city’s refusal to give in to the bus union. (New York Post and New York Times)

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