The week may have been hectic, but people were still writing things and putting them into the world, so it's time to take a look.
Working in the Pencil Graveyard
Notes from the Educational Trenches takes a quick look at the current toll on middle school students. Somehow, things have to get better.
Is It about Learning or The Adult Ned To Control Children
Teacher Tom looks at Johnny Cash and the need for control, and how humans, including young humans, respond to that.
Some US Christian schools feel free to fire gay teachers
Not news, exactly, but well explained in this piece in The Guardian
Was education the issue in Virginia. Board elections say maybe not
The Hill breaks down election results and what it tells us about education as an election issue. Maybe CRT isn't a big winner.
In the 1950s, rather than integrate its public schools, Virginia closed them
A little history lesson from the Guardian, and reminder that race and education have been a source of trouble not so long ago.
The Hartford Courant sees the "activist parents" coming for social and emotional learning.
Texas book ban would cost districts millions
The Texas book ban has a lot of things wrong with it, but don't forget that it would also be expensive as hell for districts to follow. Danika Ellis is the writer who ploughed through Matt Krause's whole list of "questionable" books; now she looks further into the issue.
These people are not educators
Turns out lots of Texans are not on board with elected officials coming up with book banning lists. From Reform Austin.
Tennessee spells out its teacher gag rule
Tennessee has one of the more terrible gag laws; now they've explained in detail just how punitive it is. You don't want this in your state.
The Conservative War on Education That Failed
Friend of the Institute Adam Laats is a historian whose deep knowledge of conservative Christianity and education in the US makes him well-positioned for our current state. This piece in the Atlantic looks back at the century-old attempt to make evolution go away.
Audit finds accountability holes in Utah
Turns out that Utah's system for overseeing charter schools is a little buggy. KUTV lays it out.
Yes, no or "huh?" in talk of critical race theory
How Yorba-Linda school district grapples with the ongoing vaguely defined and ill-understood controversy/
Parents should not be able to dictate what other parents can read
In the Miami Herald, the American Library Association director for the Office of Intellectual Freedom explains why book bans kind of suck.
In which TC Weber calls the Tennessee Moms for Liberty chief and reminds us that even people we disagree with are human. (Ironically, you may disagree with some portions of this post.)
UC Is Done with the SAT Experiment
Akil Bello at Forbes with some response for people who think it's a shame that California is dumping standardized testing for college admissions.
WV Private Schools Figuring Out How To Get Their Hands on Voucher Money
It took roughly fifteen seconds for religious schools in WV to figure out how toi really cash in on the state's new school voucher set-up.
Take all the books of the shelf
Alexandra Petri is a national treasure. Here she explains why we should just do away with books entirely (Washington Post)
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