Why Don’t Customers Leave The Big Banks? – Andrew Sullivan : It’s kind of like shopping at big box stores – the alternatives have been crippled by them.

The Quick and the Ed has started The View from Your Classroom , an idea borrowed from Andrew Sullivan. The best window views are those depicting what you see everyday when you look outside. The window frame should be visible. And please protect the privacy of your students — do not send pictures that show individually identifiable children. E-mail photos to quickanded@educationsector.org with “The View From Your Classroom” as the title; include the school name, city, state, and grade level or type of classroom.

The demolition of a public housing high-rise in Chicago The videotaped fatal beating of 16-year-old Chicago Public School student Derrion Albert last month triggered a condemnation from Barack Obama and an emergency meeting at which Attorney General Eric Holder, Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley tried to figure out how the education and criminal justice system had failed Albert.