Well, that was a week. The berobed conservative activists just took to chewing through all sorts of law in ways that seem to suggest that the chewing will not be over any time soon. There were no big surprises this week, but that doesn't lessen the impact.
So let's start with some reading about Carson and various thoughts about the possible fallout.
The Supreme Court Just Forced Maine to Fund Religious Education. It Won’t Stop There.Mark Joseph Stern at Slate puts it in the context of the "radical theory" that the establishment clause is not worth the paper its written on.
Blue Cereal Education takes a look at the relevant decisions that got us here. Plus a reading list.
Kevin Welner guests at The Answer Sheet (Washington Post) to break down how this gets us closer to a religious school free for all. Well, maybe not all.
Also at the Washington Post. If you want someone who's just pissed, here's Jennifer Rubin to call the reasoning "perverse"
That wordy title courtesy of me, over at Forbes.com
All right. Let's move on to other issues, shall we?
In Wisconsin, a school board goes off the rails when it decides to toss out a book about Japanese internment.
Federal judge to rule on attempt to block Florida law targeting 'woke’ lessons
Politico looks at an attempt to head off Ron DeSantis's anti "woke" rule.
Student initiates shenanigans from his home via social media. What are the rules for the school? A recent state supreme court decision offers a tiny bit of guidance.
Chalkbeat asks the question, "If you are hiring a high-cost new superintendent to run your district, should you also spend almost half a million bucks to hire someone to help him do his job?" They do not even get into the checkered Tennessee past of the consultant being hired.
A 30th anniversary look at a case that took Jesus prayers out of official school events, as a reminder that they're about to undo that one, too.
North Carolina is trying hard to pitch a lousy merit pay system. Justin Parmenter has found some documents about the people who have been hired to PR the heck out of that bad idea.
Johnathan Cohn writes about a huge LGBTQ flap at an elite Christian college. A good reminder that such colleges are more complicated than you may think. Bonus: the college is Calvin College, the alma mater of Betsy DeVos.
Teacher Tom is here to make this point again--do not panic over sales pitches tied to the Learning Loss boogieman
Paul Thomas doing what he does best--tying together a host of ideas and perspectives to show us something bigger.
While we're discussing old issues that haven't actually been resolved, Nancy Bailey would like to remind us about the dismal state of recess in US schools.
Heaven help us, but in PA we have what may be the worst MAGAfied gubernatorial candidate in the country. He has many, many bad ideas, but Steven Singer would like to talk about just one--arming everyone in schools to stop gun violence.
Betsy DeVos is gone from DC, but her terrible national voucher plan now lives on. From me at Forbes.com
Well, we need something pleasant, so here's a music teacher playing trombone in zero Gs (but, I would hope, four Fs). Plus, chance composition.
Do standardized testing cheerleaders lamenting "X months" of "learning loss" find any irony in the fact that the combination of RTTT, NCLBW, CCSS, and the ESSA has produced the biggest expansion of the null curricula in the history of public education. "Learning loss" not only by default but also by the deemphasis of content and procedural knowledge in favor of empty, vague, subjective, and unteachable skill sets in the very two subjects that they worship. Meanwhile teachers in the trenches continue experiencing a different kind of "learning loss" - the type that occurs overnight. Ha! SMH.
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