ICYMI: I Don't Feel OIder Edition (5/21)
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‘Lose Your School, You Lose Your Town’
Tim Walker writes for NEA Today about rural resistance to voucher programs.
No School, No Town: School Vouchers Threaten Rural Communities
The indispensable Mercedes Schneider breaks down how vouchers cause damage to rural communities, looking at some specific examples.
Well, that headline tells most of the story, but Rebecca Cohen digs into it for Insider. One more story about how culture warriors don't think we should tolerate certain people, and school administrators who stink.
Minnesota Senate sends paid family and medical leave to governor's desk
The news is not all terrible. In one state, a move to compensate for the US last place position on parental support.
School district requires teachers to out LGBTQ+ students to their parents. The state is suing.
From New Jersey. LGBTQ Nation reports on the district in Hanover Township, New Jersey, has passed its own required outing rule, and the state is not having it.
Pennridge School District To Eliminate Four Curriculum Supervisory Positions
Jenny Stephens has the latest chapter from Pennridge schools in Bucks County, PA for the Bucks County Beacon. Turns out the next thing that happens after you hire Vermilion consultants is you fire a bunch of people.
The Newest College Admissions Ploy: Paying to Make Your Teen a "Peer-Reviewed" Author
Well, this was certainly a new one on me. A whole new baloney industry to pad college applications and devalue scholarship, all at once. From ProPublica.
One of the many reasons that charter schools are not public schools is the lack of transparency or open meetings. Koby Levin, reporting for Chalkbeat Detroit, tells the tale of trying to attend a charter board meeting.
When the Last Real Teacher Says Goodbye: The Dangerous Myths Driving Their Exit
Nancy Bailey looks at some of the more corrosive myths in education.
The Arkansas Times reports on the likely outcomes of the state joining the pro-child labor states.
Would You Recognize a Good Lesson If You Saw It?
Nancy Flanagan looks at the inherent ridiculousness of some teacher evaluation models and the challenge of moving beyond them.
DeSantis’s book banners face a tough new foe: Angry moms with lawyers
Greg Sargent in the Washington Post, looking at some of the other moms who have started to push back against groups like Moms For Liberty. And they have lawyers.
Please, get rid of testing. It just doesn’t work
So much this. Julia Borst and Chris Tienken guest editorialize in the Star-Ledger, neatly condensing many reasons that the Big Standardized Test should go away.
As problem behaviors persist, is state testing making things worse?
Ronak Shah with a first person column for Chalkbeat, drawing a line between the kinds of problems we're seeing with students and the kinds of schooling that testing has created.
An economist spent decades saying money wouldn’t help schools. Now his research suggests otherwise.
Matt Barnum, my favorite Chalkbeat reporter, reports that Erik "Money Doesn't Matter" Hanushek has decided that maybe money does matter after all.
Jan Resseger has once again done all her homework regarding the newest unsurprising findings.
After School Satan Clubs Are Teaching Public School Districts an Important Lesson in Free Speech
Steven Singer warns about getting what you asked for, and what Satan clubs after school tell us about the First Amendment.
The War on Poverty Is Over. Rich People Won.
At The Atlantic, Annie Lowrey has an interview with Matthew Desmond spinning off his new book about poverty, American style.
This week, at Bucks County Beacon, I did a big ole piece about the Bradley Foundation. They're not as famous as the Koch Brothers, but they deserve to be.
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