By "that time" I mean time to once again see who will win the annual contest to twist some MLK quote into the pretzel form needed to support their particular cause. Turns out, every year, that MLK would have supported virtually everything. Yay. Here's your reading list for the week.
In our alarmingly unequal society, public schools by themselves cannot be the great equalizer
Jan Resseger has a look at another chapter from an upcoming anthology about public education. This one's by Kevin Welner and it's a good one.
Sheriff uses grades and abuse history to label schoolchildren as potential criminals
In Florida, they're using a Minority Report style system to violate privacy in the name of catching future criminals
Florida officials tried to steer education contract to former lawmaker's company
Corruption in Florida? I am shocked. Shocked! The Tampa Bay Times has the story
This vested interest in the children's incompetence
Teacher Tom has a particularly insightful post here about how some grown-ups are not great with kids.
Florida bill would allow cameras and microphones in classroom
CBS news reports. Come for the terrible new ideas, and stay to find out what terrible old ideas are already being used in Florida classrooms.
Stitt's education bro tries desperately to repair image
Oklahoma's ed chief is doing poorly. This week he really put his foot in it, and tried some light damage control.
Kids on the "McDonalds track" are living in a rigged system
Laura Bryce writes an op-ed for the Inquirer about the mess that is PA school funding
Gary Rubinstein has long kept an eye on Tennessee's Achievement School District, the special state takeover turnaround system that has never done anything but fail hard. Here's the latest update on this sad history.
The pastor, the speaker of the house--and a Christian Academy educator
Nancy Flanagan looks at the sad, greasy tale of Lee Chatfield
The latest version of one of those bills that wants to make sure that teachers don't teach anything a certain parent might find uncomfortable. Blue Cereal Education takes three posts to break it down-- I'll let you start with the third and work your way backwards.
Meanwhile, over at Forbes, I looked at the special features of South Carolina's voucher bill.
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