Sunday, August 21, 2022

ICYMI: Back Home Edition (8/21)

 We're back home at the Institute, where the living is easy and the wifi mostly works. Lots to catch up on.

We don't need more police in schools

An op-ed by a 17 year old New Jersey student, providing a perspective on the issue.

Gov. Youngkin faces second suit over tip line

In Virginia, Governor Youngkin is getting sued over his super-secret snitch-on-a-teacher operation. Here's hoping some light is shed. Reported by Hannah Natanson at the Washington Post.

TN charters deny connections to Hillsdale

It has become advantageous in Tennessee to distance your Hillsdale charter operation from Hillsdale, but Channel 5 dug up the connections anyway. 

Is there a national teacher shortage?

Matt Barnum at Chalkbeat looks at what we do and don't know about the great teacher shortage that may or may not be going on right now. Barnum has, for my money, one of the evenest hands in the ed journalism biz.

There are lots of bad ideas for solving the teacher shortage

Anne Lutz Fernandez writing at Hechinger about everyone's favorite topic. Some great insights here. 

How to make more teachers

Nancy Flanagan takes a look at the shortage and some of the bad ideas for fixing it. 

Can local dialog keep trust strong?

At 4 Public Education, some thoughts about how to keep local ties strengthened.

What parents should say to teachers

The Washington Post actually asked actual teachers this question, and the results are useful.

Yep. Class Size Matters.

The indispensable Mercedes Schneider supports what every teacher already knows. 

How many teachers have been assaulted by students or parents?

EdWeek writes about a survey about just how physically safe teachers are these days. It's not encouraging. 

The truth about the history education wars in 2022

Johnathan Zimmerman in the Washington Post bringing some perspective to the battles over how to teach US history in schools. 

What's actually being taught in history class

Pretty cool multi-media piece from New York Times that talks to actual history teachers. It's an encouraging piece, a reminder that what is actually happening is far more complex and rich than the shouty debates going on elsewhere.

Florida's war on public education looks a lot like Russia's

Johnathan Friedman and Polina Sadovskaya from PEN America write about just how bad the Florida assault on civics looks. 

North Dakota aims to recruit Florida teachers

Fargo, specifically. Newsweek looks at the prospects of luring teachers away from the land of Don't Say Gay.

Fordham wants school choice explosion

Stephen Dyer reports on Fordham's new push for more choice in Ohio, which he calls "too much."

Just do this and ten thousand other things

McSweeney's for the win with this "teacher's back-to-school lament" by Tom Lester

Meanwhile, in other places, I published a print piece at The Progressive about Teachers Feeling The Heat.  And at Forbes, why teacher merit pay is a fool's dream. 


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