Best Articles for Educators Week of 6/30/13

 1. Life After High School: Reaching Beyond Poverty

http://theeducatorsroom.com/2013/06/life-after-high-school-reaching-beyond-poverty/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theeducatorsroom%2FvPKE+%28EducatorsRoom%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher 

2. Teaching At-Risk Youth: Looking Back 50 Years 

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/teaching-urban-youth-strategies-research-sel-maurice-elias?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EdutopiaNewContent+%28Edutopia%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

3. Should Schools Still Teach Cursive?

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/06/should-schools-still-teach-cursive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

4. How to Turn Your Classroom into an Idea Factory

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2012/08/how-to-turn-your-classroom-into-an-idea-factory/ 

5. The Case for Preserving the Pleasure of Deep Reading

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/06/the-case-for-preserving-the-pleasure-of-deep-reading/  

6. Study: Minority, Poor Students Gain from Charters 

http://www.teachhub.com/study-minority-poor-students-gain-charters

 7. What is a PLN? Why Do I Need One? 

http://www.teachhub.com/what-pln-why-do-i-need-one

I'll be in your PLN! I'm an education journalist.