You've still got a couple of days--use them well. If you're already done, just hush. Nobody likes a showoff. There were bits of good news this week, including Oklahoma's decision to, at least for the moment, not authorize a Catholic cyber charter school. So here's your reading for the week.
The People We Need To Reach Aren't Online
At Book Riot, Kelly Jensen argues that social media is not where the fight over censorship is being won or lost. She also offers a sadly long list of some of what's happening out there.
Child labor push in Iowa forgets our history
What’s Behind the State Takeover of Houston’s Schools
A Well of Conservative Support for Public Schools in Rural Texas
Child labor push in Iowa forgets our history
A reminder from Iowa about the troubled history of child labors and the ubiquity of the business complaint, "But that kind of law would ruin us!"
Jeff Bryant at The Progressive breaks down the hostile takeover of the giant Houston school district. Spoiler alert: it's not about education.
At Texas Observer, David Brockman looks at " the latest front in Christian nationalists' battle to undermine separation of church and state."
New York Times (so mind the paywall) look at the conservatives who are putting up resistance to subsidizing private schools for rich folks in the cities, all at the expense of rural public schools.
Education Profiteering Accelerates in Texas
Where parental snooping is becoming the law
Didn't realize we were going to spend so much time in Texas this week, but Thomas Ultican has dug up some of the connections between the players in Texas.
School's transgender policy trumped teacher's religious rights, US court rules
St. Pete school will continue showing movie about Civil Rights icon
'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
School's transgender policy trumped teacher's religious rights, US court rules
In one of many "you can't make me use the students' preferred pronouns" cases in the country, the court finds in favor of the district.
St. Pete school will continue showing movie about Civil Rights icon
That Florida school that was contemplating the cancellation of a movie about Ruby Bridges decided to do the right thing and show the film.
Gary Rubinstein has always tracked the real numbers at Success Academy, and he's done it again this year. 100% graduation rate? Not really.
Well, that doesn't seem to have worked out so well.
Competing schools or competing families? The segregative effects of neighborhood racial change and a school lottery in Washington DC
Interesting look at how school choice plays out when it comes to segregation.
Where parental snooping is becoming the law
Among the scary laws being floated out there are laws that would require tech companies to give parents full access to their child's online activity. Politico breaks it down.
Exercise your Rights, Parents!
As a parent, I sympathize with my students' moms and dads – not politicians using them
Vanessa Hall blogs in Virginia, and she has some thoughts about the performative Parents' Rights bill the GOP is bating around in DC.
It's true--a huge number of teachers are also parents. Larry Strauss takes the balanced look at USA Today.
Amy Adams lives in Iowa and argues here for the rights that parents really need (and they aren't the ones right wing groups are talking about)
Fox Chapel seniors win first place with video on suicide prevention
Florida is getting ready to pass yet another dumb law--this one could criminalize giving your undocumented immigrant neighbor a ride to church.
The US Finally Started Building A Functional Childcare System During The Pandemic. We’re About To Tear It Down.
Bryce Covert at Talking Points Memo looks at how pandemic funding helped build child care --with money that's about to run out.
Adventures in Censorship: The Adventures of Schloomphy Boopher!David Lee Finkle dug back into the Mr. Fitz files for a story of book censorship in schools that could have been written right now.
Larry Cuban digs out an old code of conduct for education reformers, and it's not bad. It's not been used, but it's not bad.
From a district in the Pittsburgh area. No implications for school policy (other than, isn't it nice some schools can afford a digital media lab), but a nice reminder of the good work that students can do.
One of my most fun theater gigs in a long time was pit conducting for a production of Spongebob The Musical, so this post from Jose Vilson hits me right in the feels. It's true--the show is a fabulous celebration of a positive view in dark times.
This Cal Newport piece in The New Yorker (mind the paywall) is hands down the best explainer I've seen about how chatbots do what they do (which does not involve actually understanding anything). Everyone should read this piece.
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