By which I mean the much-beloved annual Half Price Candy Day, celebrated on February 15th every year. Spend it with someone you love. Meanwhile, here's the reading for the week.
What's behind the right-wing book-ban frenzy? Big money, and a long-term planJon Skolnik at Salon takes a look at the ongoing book ban panics across the country.
A Chalkbeat first person essay from a student in one Chicago's allegedly-bad schools. She offers a different perspective.
The rhetoric is a little overheated, and the contents are mostly familiar, but the source is one of those interesting moments when the education debate penetrates outside the usual boundaries. This is from Baptist News Global.
Jan Resseger breaks down some of the details on how we arrived at this CRT-panic induced wave of teacher gag laws.
Jose Luis Vilson offers some words about the crt panic, and especially about the work we should be doing in response to it.
Melody Schreiber at the New Republic went looking for the evidence about the detrimental effects of masking kids. She didn't find any.
If you've been watching the show, here's the teacher who inspired the show's creator
Bob Shepard looks at the coming education shenanigans in Tennessee and the plan to recruit a Christian conservative college to come run charter schools.
The Murky World of i-Ready, Grading, and Online DataNancy Bailey takes a look at the issues surrounding i-Ready. If this program has been cropping up in your neighborhood and you're wondering about it, this is a handy explainer.
For the "education should be like Uber" crowd, here's a Cory Doctorow explanation of just how big a scam Uber actually is.
The Onion is on fire this week, so they get two spots on this week's list.
Also, this week in "Things I Wrote Other Places," a Forbes piece about why lowering the bar to fill classroom spots is only going to make things worse, and a reminder at Progressive that test-based teacher evaluations were a bust.
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