Okay, you may want to curl up with some hot chocolate and a blanket, because this week turned up an awful lot of reading material. Remember, only you can amplify the voices you think need to be heard!
Our School Systems Deserve Better Than This
Charles Pierce at Esquire takes a hard look at charter schools and segregation. You will not have to guess what he thinks.
Green Dots Suspension Rates Continue To Be Remarkably High
As the debates about school discipline heat up, School Data Nerd looks at hard data from one charter group, and finds that they are booting kids out at a high rate.
Douglas County School Board Ends Controversial Voucher Program
A few years ago, reformsters captured the Douglas County (Colorado) school board and proceeded to launch the nation's first district-level voucher system. Turns out that mostly what they did was wake up local voters. Here's how a reformy tide can be turned back,
Turkish Gulen Schools in America
The Gulen chain is perhaps the most notorious charter chain in the US, serving as a fundraising project for a Turkish government-in-exile. Mercedes Schneider looks at some of the most current tools for tracking these guys.
Success Academy's Radical Experiment
Everybody wanted to write about Eva this week for some reason. Here's the New Yorker's take on the queen of Success Academy
Tolerating failing schools in New Orleans-- as long as they're for black kids
Andre Perry takes a look at the latest bad news for fans of the NOLA chartering experiment
What Is Motivation Porn and Why Does Higher Education Seems Addicted To It
A great look a thing I didn't even realize was a thing, but as soon as I read this, I could see it everywhere. Grit, anyone?
Update on Summit Schools
Leonie Haimson took a trip to one of the schools running the Summit school-in-a-box program. In some ways, it seems even more unimpressive than I thought it would be.
Influencers and the Hillary Campaign
While technically water under the bridge, a reminder that Democrats are no BFFs of public education either. And some of this water is still flowing around making trouble.
A Portfolio of Schools
Matt Barnum at Chalkbeat kicks off a series of stories about the portfolio approach to reform, and it will probably not make you happy.
Voucher Schools Can Teach Whatever They Want
HuffPost did some heavy-duty research into what is actually taught at the mostly-religious schools that benefit from vouchers in this country. You may have expected the emphasis on anti-evolution and anti-science, but there's a also a healthy dose of political conservatism (and get them women back in the kitchen). How Betsy DeVos wants your tax dollars to work.
Kindergarten to Work Second Shift
In Florida, a parent offers a great response to the school district that wants her kindergarten student to go home and log onto the computer to do more school work.
She Breaks Rules While Expecting Students To Follow Them
Lisa Miller reviews the Moskowitz memoir and identifies some of Eva's central problems, like how she is proud of being a rebel, and demands that all of her students never rebel at all. It gets better.
How America Is Breaking Public Education
Always interesting when the mostly-conservative Forbes goes against type. The thesis here is a good one-- "we've disobeyed the cardinal rule of success in any industry: treating your workers like professionals."
Teach Kids To Start Unions
Rachel Cohen interviews Malcolm Harris, who has many intersting things to say about Kids These Days
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