My wife's grandmother passed away last week, a ripe and well-aged 90 years old. She was a feisty old broad in the best sense of the word. Salty, sassy and a constant reminder to live your damn life. Her memory will be a blessing.
And now for this week's reading.
Jargon may have turned parents against social and emotional learning
Javeria Salman at Hechinger with a theory about why there's such a disconnect between what people want and the SEL that delivers it.
Who is writing the model bills against CRT?
Jan Resseger traces the roots of the many, many nearly identical gag bills being floated coast to coast
Choosing to end Public Education
Thomas Ultican takes a look inside the new anthology of essays about public education
I Got a Voucher Only to Find No Private School Wanted My SonIf you have not yet checked out the website Public Voices for Public Schools, here's a good post to start with, reminding us that school choice is too often school's choice.
When your body is telling you you're carrying too much stress, listen. From Eduhonesty.
Nancy Flanagan looks at how poor "freedom" has been put through the mill.
I was a little late coming across this gem, but here's a tale from the front lines of the current book banning debates.
The Alabama version of this stuff, advertised as a "compromise"
We've looked at this before, but it deserves to be revisited regularly. Matt Barnum, the Chalkbeat reporter we most appreciate here at the Institute, takes a look at what's at stake and what some of the outcomes could be.
Megan Megansky reporting in Harrsiburg, PA, covers one of the less-covered aspects of the pandemess--teachers who are also parents. Several great quotes, but I'll give you this one
“We really have to get to a point where people in charge stop telling us to take care of ourselves and instead take some of this off of our plates," middle school band director Shanna Danielson said.
Sarah Darer Littman with the story of how to fight an attack on board members.
TC Weber has a good look at the various shenanigans involved in Tennessee Governor Lee's plan to change up how schools are funded (or not).
One more story (this time from Erica Meltzer at Chalkbeat) to remind us that the big secret for charter success remains carefully curating your student body.
Every once in a while I write something and feel as if I've nailed an important point, and then nobody much looks at it. That happened this week, when I pointed out the evidence that some choicers really aren't choicers at all, and they're saying the quiet part pretty loudly these days. Here's the piece.
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