What We're Reading: Preschool to become a federal school turnaround strategy

Changes to federal School Improvement Grants could make early education an official turnaround strategy. (Politics K-12)
Some conservatives are unhappy about changes to the AP U.S. History curriculum, and one test-taker wonders why. (Slate)
A small, safe, high-achieving high school in Philadelphia is somehow at a loss for students. (Notebook)
Durham, N.C., is severing its Teach for America contract, which brought a dozen teachers to the city. (Answer Sheet)
TFA’s subtle shifts raise questions about its role in the education reform ecosystem. (Vox)
As his son starts school, an urban education professor lists his hopes for the next 14 years. (Hechinger)
“It’s hard to feel like a guru,” says cultural literacy evangelist E.D. Hirsch. “I’ve been a pariah for so long.” (Politico)
Three maps of D.C. visualize the well-worn connection between poverty and low test scores. (Greater Greater)
An elegy for “Up the Down Staircase,” a classic of school stories from the 1960s that’s out of print. (New Yorker)
After two decades in the classroom, a Brooklyn teacher is collapsing distinctions between him and students. (Mind/Shift)
Chicago is increasingly assigning school librarians away from their libraries. (NPRed)
Most children displaced by Syria’s civil war aren’t attending school and probably never will again. (Atlantic)