The Board of Directors will be out scrounging for candy dressed as a member of Koo Koo Kangaroo and a Construction Guy. I will be on the front steps of the Institute handing out candy to costumed wanderers of all ages. Hope you are having a fun evening wherever you are.
Where Facts Were No Match For Fear
Not actually about education, but certainly provides some insights into the kind of stuff we're seeing these days. The New York Times looks at an attempt to raise tourism in Montana.
Why we are suing Pennsylvania over school funding
Yes, that's happening in PA, and will probably provide a lesson of one sort or another for activists in other states. On The Morning Call.
This is the problem with ranking schools
I never get tired of watching people chastise US News and their crappy ranking lists. This time it's Ethan Hutt in the Washington Post.
Methods for comparing school site spending (and correctly making charter school comparisons)
Bruce Baker at School Finance 101. I know, it doesn't sound very sexy, but it's awfully useful for making comparisons that are actually valid.
Anya Kamenetz at NPR giving a good overview of all these various outfits stirring the pot these days.
Inc. has some unsurprising news--grit might not be the great be-all that Angela Duckworth and friends suggested it was.
Nancy Flanagan looks at the staffing problems faced in districts across the country. Gee, what could the problem be?
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board has a few thoughts about the poorly-written Texas gag law that led to a call for both-sidesing the Holocaust
A Gay Music Teacher Got Married. The Brooklyn Diocese Fired Him.
This story from the New York Times explains how a religious school can get away with this, and will continue to.
Jennifer Berkshire in The Nation offers more perspective on the current dust-up across the country that has drawn a target on school districts.
Schools facing critical race theory battles are diversifying rapidly, analysis finds
This NBC piece from back in September is worth revisiting because it offers an answer to the question, "What do all these up-in-arms districts have in common." The answer may be that white folks have become less of a majority there.
Matt Krause’s campaign for attorney general comes with a reading list
Texas state rep Matt Krause has a list of 850 questionable books that he wants schools to reconsider. He's also running for state attorney general. Great opening line in this Texas Tribune piece-- "Book bans don't really work, except in politics."
From Friend of the Institute Barth Kleck at CT News Junkie, a great reminder of how we got here. They said what they were going to do, they said they were doing it, they bragged about how successful they were at doing it, they said they'd done it.
Alexandra Petri is a national treasure. Sharp satire at the Washington Post.
