The anti-crt movement is rapidly changing form into the anti-public education movement. Well, maybe not so much changing as revealing. Things are heating up across the country, and this week was a big week for reads in the Big People Media.
Enrollment jumps in charter schools--with biggest gains in the worst sector
Valerie Strauss at the Washington Post hosts Carol Burris. Charter schools were earlier this year boasting about their huge pandemic gains. Turns out that those gains were overwhelmingly in the cyber-school sector, the well-documented mostly-failing part of the charter world.
This virtual classroom company made millions during the pandemic while students languished
Buzzfeed, of all places, has a blunt takedown of Edgenuity, the 800 pound gorilla of online education, and how badly they fail to provide what they promise.
Moms for Liberty and "parents rights"
A Washington Post piece about one of the momming groups that really captures how critical race theory is now in the rear-view mirror as they start agitating for conservative control of public education.
When parents scream at school board meetings, how can I teach their children?
NY teacher of the year Jennifer Wolfe looks at the fallout from raging parents
With equity resolution, Birmingham schools push back against state critical race theory ban.
A few districts are displaying some spine and resolution. It remains to be seen how this plays out, but it looks as if Birmingham schools have elected to be on the front lines. From AL.com
The Great Resignation Is Accelerating
Derek Thompson for the Atlantic, looking at how millions in the country are just dropping out and walking away.
The 'Great Resignation' is finally getting companies to take burnout seriously. Is it enough?
Jamie Ducharme at Time magazine takes a look at how business is adjusting (or not) to the great walkaway.
Williamston parents upset about plan to give kids library cards
Well, there's a headline that doesn't bode well. This particular story is from Michigan. Keep them books away from them kids!
If you still haven't gotten a copy of Audrey Watters's Teaching Machines, you need to get that done. But in the meantime, here's an excerpt from the book at Edutopia.
Texas school district reinstates book by Black author amid critical race theory claims
More Texas mess. On the one hand, the story has a happy-ish ending. On the other hand, why was this ever even a thing in the first place?
Ohio state education board repeals anti-racism resolution
Jan Resseger has some bad news from Ohio, where the state board has decided not to be against racism after all.
"The Truth About Reading" is missing truths and backstory
Nancy Bailey takes a look at an upcoming documentary about reading--and what it doesn't include.
Nancy Flanagan has read Clint Smith's book, and she's here to explain why you should, too
I can't imagine how deeply frustrating it must be that the new-wave Dixiecrat strategy (shielded through academia) is so resoundingly failing and mobilizing parents of all races who see it for the trashy idpol that it is. CRT is nothing but retooled White-Mans-Burden, desperately appealing to (and amplifying) notions of black persecution and victimhood under the guise of triumphing white self-flagellation. But no, CRT isn't anti-white in the least. Because as long as whites signal their thirst for atonement, they're back to reasserting their role in the pecking order as the charitable savior for blackness...which is really about preserving the status quo as much as it was for racist southern whites in 1960. (Same political party of course.)
ReplyDeleteI know this is meaningless to you because you're up to your eyeballs in ideology, but if this ends up killing public education, our kids of all races will be the better for it. Sad but true. Today's left is hopelessly infected with moral narcissism and utterly incapable of seeing just how awful and destructive their policies are. Either that or they don't care, because power is everything and the ends justify the means.
I went ahead and approved this because I think it's important to be reminded now and then just how incoherent some people are on this subject.
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