Summer break has arrived in my neck of the woods, which means the Board of Directors will no longer have me outnumbered!. In the meantime, here's some reading from the week. Remember-- sharing is how you amplify the voices that you think need to be heard. Bloggers and journalists can write all day, but we all depend on readers to help put us in front of our audience.
Robots Are Not Coming For Your Job-- Management Is
Great piece not directly about education, but a reminder that automation is not some sort of mysterious natural process.
Ohio Needs To Abandoned Failed High Stakes Tests
The League of Women Voters comes down hard against high stakes testing as a measure of educational quality. Always nice to see people outside the classroom get it.
Schools Should Serve Humans, Not "The Economy"\
Lois Weiner makes her pitch for Bernie Sanders to reject the language of business when discussing schools. Never mind Bernie-- can we get everyone to do this?
Is Charlie Butt the New Eli Broad?
Not that we need one for anything, but her comes another deep-pocketed educational amateur with big ideas.
Millions of Kids Take Standardized Tests Just To Help The Testing Companies
Oh, the business of field testing, wasting everybody's time.
Tennessee Achievement School District At a Crossroads
"Crossroads" is generous, but here's the OG ASD still not getting its job done.
Let's Hear It For The Average Child
From the New York Times.
An Anti-Racist Reading List
Powerful and handy resources from Ibram X. Kendi.
7 Reasons We're Seeing More Challenging Behavior in Early Childhood Settings
Rae Pica looks at some of those things that we continue to get wrong when it comes to the littles.
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