Every year in my small town we have a mini-festival in which part of the town park becomes a showplace for ice sculptures. It has survived COVID mostly unscathed because it's outside and it's cold, so crowds don't exactly gather. Fun times. Best to go at night, when the sculptures are lit up. And you can revisit it for weeks, depending on the weather because, in one of those small towny things, nobody bothers the sculptures while they're up.
Here's your reading for the week.
Moving the SATs online won't restore them to relevance
At The Hill, Josh DeSantis argues that the SATs latest move isn't going to help them escape irrelevance
Glenn Youngkin Tip Line Update
Mother Jones has a follow-up on Youngkin's snitch line. Doesn't seem to be going well, despite refusals to honor FIOA requests.
The Highly Unqualified Teacher
Nancy Flanagan remembers when a cornerstone of ed policy was the "highly qualified teacher." Now that we've completely thrown that out the window, what could be the results?
DeVos touts voucher ballot initiative
Michigan voters have beaten back DeVos voucher plans numerous times, but this time the family thinks they may have a way to circumvent the people and just get those tax dolars flowing to private religious schools. And they are spending a ton of money on it
People are fighting. Is that news?
You may not agree with this piece, but at a minimum it may spur some thinking. Greg Toppo suggests that education coverage might benefit from more light and less heat.
I don't usually do video clips, but this two minutes with Amanda Ripley is an awesome explanation of my favorite new term.
Research points to effectiveness of tutoring and challenge of scaling it
At Th 74 (yes, I know, but some of their straight journalism is pretty useful) a look at research about tutoring and the challenge of making it big enough to help students in larger numbers.
Why there hasn't been a mass exodus of teachers
Rebecca Klein takes a look at some of the details behind that mass teacher exodus that is often touted, but rarely backed up by actual numbers.
Teachers are quitting and companies are hot to hire them
At the Wall Street Journal, an article that suggests the prospects for ex-teachers (however many there actually are) are actually pretty good.
Having trouble keeping track of how many states are trying to clamp down on teaching about race and other discomfort-inducing topics? Chalkbeat has a map.
Efforts to ban CRT affect roughly a third of US students
At EdWeek, Eesha Pendharker has done some tallying as well, and the numbers are large.
Madeline Morgan's vision for Black history in schools
A first person Chalkbeat piece from the guy who's writing the book about the Bronzeville visionary.
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