Well, that just flew by. Here's a good batch of reading from the week. Remember, if it speaks to you, help it speak to somebody else.
Betsy DeVos vs. Student Veterans
By easing up on predatory for-profit colleges, DeVos has really stuck it to veterans trying to get an education.
TFA Celebrates New Research That Suggests That Corps Members Are Ineffective Teacher
Gary Rubinstein takes a look at TFA's odd choice of research to get excited.
A Teacher's Student Loans Were Forgiven. Then FedLoan Wrecked His Credit
An infuriating tale that highlights just how screwed up this loan program is these days.
This Personalized Ed Program That Was Supposed To Boost Scores Didn't Work
Teach To One was supposed to totally work the personalized [sic] education magic. A new study says no, not so much.
Oakland Public School Teachers Are Striking Against Billionaire Privatizers
Jacobin takes a look at the Oakland strike and the real issues driving it.
Are Texas Kids Failing, or Is The Staar Test Rigged?
Yet another Big Standardized Test turns out to be written at inappropriate grade levels.
Boon Or Black Hole: PA Private School Scholarship Program Considers Expansion
PA has its own tax credit scholarship program that is either awesome or disastrous, depending on whether you ask someone benefiting from it or anyone else. Now the move is on to make it bigger.
Kentucky Charter Schools Funding Shelved For Another Year
A recap/update on Kentucky's unique charter compromise-- they've created a charter law, but they won't fund it. That tradition will continue in 2019.
Charter Takeover In Atlanta Struggled
For the gazzilionth time, some school takeover experts discover that it's not nearly as easy to turn schools around as they said it would be.
P&G's Partnership With Strive
What does Cincinnati have to do with building the cradle-to-career pipeline?
I'm a Loser Baby, So Why Don't You Kill Me
Think you've read the last word on Don Jr's teacher comment. Read what Nancy Flanagan has to say last.
John White Speaks At San Francisco TFA Board Meeting
Why is the guy who helped trash public education in Louisiana talking to TFA on the left coast? Mercedes Schneider has your answer.
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