We're big fans of Fall here at the Institute, and it arrived in Western PA in a very Fall-like fashion, so we are switching to hot chocolate and flannel sheet mode. Nothing better. In the meantime, here are some items for your reading edification from the week.
Denver students sue district over podcast
Denver students created a podcast that the district decided was so great that they'd just go ahead and appropriate the brand, but the students are not okay with that. From Chalkbeat.
To Build a Pipeline of Black Teachers, This Program Starts Recruiting in High SchoolA program in Pittsburgh seeks to address Pennsylvania's egregious shortage of Black teachers. Emily Tate Sullivan at EdSurge.
Madeline Will at EdWeek talks to some actual educators of color (including The Jose Vilson)
My Former TX District Has Collapsed into Cruelty and AbsurdityIn The 74, a first person account of how one Texas district lost ots damn mind over book restriction politics.
The latest report from PAN America on the growing attempts to restrict what people can read.
From the Christian Science Monitor, an explainer about how Arizona became the education mess it is today.
Jan Resseger takes a deep dive into the history of public school dismantling on Oakland, CA.
‘Swatting’ Hoaxes Disrupt Schools Across the Country. What Educators Need to Know
Cowards, Censorship, and Collateral Damage: The Other Reading War
One of Higher Ed’s Worst-Kept Secrets Is Out. It’s Even Grimmer Than We Knew.
At EdWeek, Shane Safir offers some practical alternatives to the Big Standardized Test. If you want to see a concrete example of how this could work, Leonie Haimson at Class Size Matters revisits the Opportunity to Learn Index that was developed in 2017 (but not adopted).
I've written a ton about the inadequacies of the Big Standardized Test, but David Lee Finkle nails it in just 7 comic strip panels.
At Blue Book Diaries, Jonathan Wilson offers a piece that reminds us that students are having their own conversations about what may or may not be taught.
From Idaho Press, a report on a panel presentation that discusses some of the money and organization behind the reading restriction push.
Essay by Esau McCaulley in New York Times connecting experience to the current teaching debates.
In Pennsylvania, public education supporters were pretty bummed to learn that Johs Shapiro, the gubernatorial candidate who isn't a crazy-pants right-wing christian nationalist authoritarian, supports a school choice voucher that any far right Republican would love. Here, Steven Singer begs Shapiro to reconsider.
When I was growing up, disrupting school by calling in a fake bomb threat was a thing. But the new thing is swatting--telling authorities there's an active shooter incident or something else that will cause a swat team to descend on the school. It's a growing trend, and it's ugly. Evie Blad at EdWeek.
Paul Thomas doing what he does best--connecting the dots to important ideas. In this case, about reading.
John Warner is in Slate, explaining how the practice of student swapping is one more factor driving college costs (and putting students in debt).
I did not know this was a thing, but apparently so. Some researchers in Rome have a theory, and it has to do with too much screen time.
McSweeney's is at it again. "Drawing on diverse culinary traditions, including salad-left-over-from-last-night’s-school-board-meeting and the reduced-for-quick-sale aisle at Sam’s Club, the newly reimagined Thurgood Marshall Middle School Lounge is a feast for both the palate and the eyes."
Meanwhile, I had a busy week at Forbes. There's a piece about a joint international ed tech thingy from UNICEF and Micrisoft, a look at the latest GOP attempt to roll back charter regulations, and an attempt to see if closing school buildings is really the culprit for the pandemic test score plunge.
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