Required Reading: 21 April 2013

Good morning, scholars and pedagogues! Here are some news items you might wish to read and share:

According to this article, some teachers are making fat stacks selling lesson plans online. I find this difficult to wrap my brain around with so many free lesson plans available so…skepticism! See what you think.

Is there a shortage of black make teachers in the public schools?

NPR’s first installment in a three-part series on educating through the arts.

Common Core State Standards debates rage on. Have you checked out the standards themselves?

Have a great week in skeptical instruction! We just finished finals at my college, so let the summer begin…