Car Shopping Edition
Only slightly more fun than a root canal. But I needed a new project. In the meantime, here are some good reads from the week.
State of Siege: What the Free State Project Means for New Hampshire’s Public SchoolsHave You Heard welcomes Matthew Honglitz-Hetling, author of A Libertarian Walks Into A Bear, a book I just finished, so I was pretty pumped to have the HYH crew interview him. Oh, New Hampshire, my birth state, home of my families of origin--what the hell has happened to you.
Jeff Bryant takes a look at some of the painful, gritty details behind the fraud and waste that cost taxpayers a billion dollars via the federal charter program.
In Ohio, there's a battle between two fundamental ideas about what a school is--a social contract, or a consumer good. Jan Resseger breaks it all down.
Indiana is one of the states rushing headlong toward bigger, broader school vouchers and a dismantling of public education. The blog Live Long and Prosper has the details.
Paul Thomas has been one of the persistent and well-researched opponents of the SOR wave, and here he presents more explanation of why the new edu-fad is misguided and misguiding.
Thomas Ultican provides a guide to just some of the damage done to public education by America's wealthiest oligarchs.
Stephen Merrill at Edutopia explains that yes, learning loss is a thing and no, we shouldn't be making it the centerpiece of education policy.
John Warner in his substack takes a look why education isn't a race, and if it is, it's not a sprint, and maybe some folks should stop freaking out about the great pandemic pause.
Yong Zhao offers some insights into the pitfalls to avoid and the opportunities to embrace when dealing with policies addressing the dreaded learning loss
Look, I'm not generally interested in what big standardized tests have to say about how students are doing, but that's the way some folks like to play, and by the rules of their game, learning loss is not living up to its billing as a world-wrecker. Sarah Schwartz covers a new study for EdWeek.
Shariff El-Mekki offers some thoughts about how teacher preparation could better prepare teachers for today's diverse classrooms.
Maureen Downey at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution looks at a flap in Fulton, where parents are demonstrating against the district's decision to give teachers release time for vaccination.
Brown v. Board didn't change everything. At the Washington Post, Matthew D. Lassiter looks at the slow steady undoing of desegregation in the US.
Tom Bartlett at the Atlantic looks at the actual data and discovers that maybe the news about a wave of pandemic school shutdown induced suicides may not have been entirely accurate.
Just in case there weren't enough reasons to conclude that this year's Big Standardized Test was a waste of time, now it turns out that New York decided to just go ahead and re-use questions from previous tests. And students noticed. Christina Veiga at Chalkbeat has the story.
Stephen Sawchuck writes for EdWeek, with special appearance by Jose Vilson.
Well, that turned out to be a long list this week. Here's a nice palate cleanser from McSweeney's
A New Civics Education Tool—From Hollywood. - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2021/04/21/a-new-civics-education-tool-from-hollywood/?sh=3fc88cec3169 by @palan57 on @forbes
A Search For Common Ground: A Worthwhile Conversation About Education - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2021/04/13/a-search-for-common-ground-a-worthwhile-conversation-about-education/?sh=5948b3af4333 by @palan57 on @forbes