The Daily Report Card: Presidents, Practice, iPads, Papers, Pay

It’s Presidents Day. Do you have class?

Transferring credits, lessening debt – Terre Haute Tribune-Star The Indiana General Assembly’s discussion of a credit transfer bill may be “one of its few meaningful discussions in 2012.” (indianaeconomicdigest.com)

How Much Practice is Too Much? – MindShift “We don’t just need to learn a task in order to perform it well; we need to overlearn it.” (MindShift)

Next-gen textbooks? It’s the ecosystem, not the device – ZDNet So Apple wants to take over the e-textbook market. What now? (zdnet.com)

FWCS chief again leads in school pay – The Journal Gazette Wendy Robinson made $211,355 in 2011. (journalgazette.net)

If Newspapers Are Going To Publish Teachers’ Value-Added Scores, They Need To Publish Error Margins Too – The Shanker Blog The LA Times’ publishing of the numbers was controversial. (shankerblog.org)