The Institute staff has returned from the wilds of Maine (well, slightly wilds) and while I'm still getting back in the swing, I've got a handful of things for the reading list this week.
Let schools decide how to spend pandemic windfall
Andrea Gabor at Bloomberg offers an argument for letting decisions about pandemic dollars be made at the local school level and not by bureaucrats in front offices.
The culture war over critical race theory looks like the one waged 50 years ago over sex education
Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire put in an appearance at The Answer Sheet (Washington Post) with a history lesson in how to use school based culture wars for political gain.
Students need to learn about the haters and the helpers of our history
Michele l. Morris with a powerful Washington Post piece about the need to push back against Moms for Liberty and their attempts to make history pretty.
House appropriations prohibits fed funds for...electric shock to students
The indispensable Mercedes Schneider has dug through the House Appropriations Committee budget proposal and finds an odd item--then she discovers, sadly, why it's necessary
The moral panic over critical race theory is coming for a North Carolina teacher of the year
Rodney Pierce is a social studies teacher and NC teacher of the year, and he has emerged as a vocal critic of the attempts to stifle teaching of US history. Good article in Mother Jones.
Who's really driving critical race theory legislation/ An investigation.
Sarah Schwartz at Ed Week breaks down the genesis of all these remarkably-similar bills.
The child tax credit, not charter schools, was the reform we needed to help kids succeed
Andre Perry at Hechinger Report about the traps that poor children really need to be released from.
Tucker Carlson goes to school. Your school.
Nancy Flanagan talks about the right-wing push to gin up some fear.
Eli Broad managed to get his fake school leadership school a sheen of legitimacy by having Yale take it on. Thomas Ultican checks in to see how that's going.
Eyeing federal infrastructure windfall, private equity courts public utilities
Another trend in the world of privatizing public stuff. Lee Harris at The American Prospect.
Nobody wants to be a serf anymore.
McSweeney's looks at that mysterious labor shortage problem.
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