We're getting there, and by "there" I mean into whatever future we're about to build in the new year. In the meantime, here's this week's reading list.
The Attack on Dr. Jill Biden Is Cloaked Hatred of Teachers and Public Ed
While folks have been compiling lists if bad Wall Street Journal takes in 2020, the Epstein hit piece is often overlooked--but it was bad. Nancy Bailey pushes back. (Yes, this was only just last week)
SCOTUS Opened the Door for Religious Charter Schools
One more preview of the argument that charter operators will use to cash in now that SCOTUS has signaled its willingness to bat down the church-state wall. It's Newsweek, which is not always a god sign, but the author is a law professor at Notre Dame.
A Teacher's Take on Computerized Reading Tests
Stefanie Fuhr is at the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood explaining why those tests are not a great thing, or even an adequate thing.
Too many parents and decision makers treat teachers like they don't matter
At CNN, Alexandra Robbins argues that teachers need to be more than data points during the pandemic building re-opening debates.
Stop using black children as an excuse to open your schools
AKA "where was al this concern a year ago?" From the Black and Smart blog.
Arizona charter school got a PPP loan, gave $10 million to a shareholder
From the Arizona Republic, via USA Today, a tale of more stimulus loan shenanigans in the education private sector.
Education secretary should curb standardized tests
Andrea Gabor at Bloomberg backing up the argument so many folks are making-- this is a terrible year to insist on the Big Standardized Test
Learning Pods Show Their Cracks
Okay, this is mostly forehead slapping schadenfreude reading from the New York Times, as a bunch of pandemic pod parents discover that setting up a school is, in fact, hard.
The Dark History of School Choice
Diane Ravitch in the New York Review of books takes a look at three books that outline how the school choice movement owes much of its roots and arguments to the U.S. racist past, fueled by a long-time religious crusade against public education.
As the end of the year approaches, Jose Vilson asks some of the big questions. A thoughtful meditation for a winter eve.
Thank you for this review. I appreciate especially your listing of the Stop Using Black Children as an Excuse article, and your identical reaction to mine re: the Learning Pod report. At least I now know that I am ranting about issues someone besides me has deemed relevant!
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