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‘Lose Your School, You Lose Your Town’Tim Walker writes for NEA Today about rural resistance to voucher programs.
No School, No Town: School Vouchers Threaten Rural CommunitiesThe indispensable Mercedes Schneider breaks down how vouchers cause damage to rural communities, looking at some specific examples.
An economist spent decades saying money wouldn’t help schools. Now his research suggests otherwise.
No Quick Fixes: Disparities in COVID Learning Loss Reflect Persistent Inequity in Children’s Economic Circumstances and Inequitable School Funding
The Wisconsin teacher who wanted her kids to sing 'Rainbowland' says the school district plans to fire her and things are 'only going to get worse' for educators
Minnesota Senate sends paid family and medical leave to governor's desk
School district requires teachers to out LGBTQ+ students to their parents. The state is suing.
Pennridge School District To Eliminate Four Curriculum Supervisory Positions
Open and accessible? Here’s what happened when we tried to attend 10 Detroit charter school board meetings in a month.
When the Last Real Teacher Says Goodbye: The Dangerous Myths Driving Their Exit
Abusing child labor just got easier in Arkansas, and that means educational attainment will go down. Here’s proof.
Please, get rid of testing. It just doesn’t work
As problem behaviors persist, is state testing making things worse?
Well, that headline tells most of the story, but Rebecca Cohen digs into it for Insider. One more story about how culture warriors don't think we should tolerate certain people, and school administrators who stink.
The news is not all terrible. In one state, a move to compensate for the US last place position on parental support.
From New Jersey. LGBTQ Nation reports on the district in Hanover Township, New Jersey, has passed its own required outing rule, and the state is not having it.
Jenny Stephens has the latest chapter from Pennridge schools in Bucks County, PA for the Bucks County Beacon. Turns out the next thing that happens after you hire Vermilion consultants is you fire a bunch of people.
Well, this was certainly a new one on me. A whole new baloney industry to pad college applications and devalue scholarship, all at once. From ProPublica.
One of the many reasons that charter schools are not public schools is the lack of transparency or open meetings. Koby Levin, reporting for Chalkbeat Detroit, tells the tale of trying to attend a charter board meeting.
Nancy Bailey looks at some of the more corrosive myths in education.
The Arkansas Times reports on the likely outcomes of the state joining the pro-child labor states.
Would You Recognize a Good Lesson If You Saw It?
DeSantis’s book banners face a tough new foe: Angry moms with lawyers
Nancy Flanagan looks at the inherent ridiculousness of some teacher evaluation models and the challenge of moving beyond them.
Greg Sargent in the Washington Post, looking at some of the other moms who have started to push back against groups like Moms For Liberty. And they have lawyers.
So much this. Julia Borst and Chris Tienken guest editorialize in the Star-Ledger, neatly condensing many reasons that the Big Standardized Test should go away.
Ronak Shah with a first person column for Chalkbeat, drawing a line between the kinds of problems we're seeing with students and the kinds of schooling that testing has created.
An economist spent decades saying money wouldn’t help schools. Now his research suggests otherwise.
Matt Barnum, my favorite Chalkbeat reporter, reports that Erik "Money Doesn't Matter" Hanushek has decided that maybe money does matter after all.
Jan Resseger has once again done all her homework regarding the newest unsurprising findings.
Steven Singer warns about getting what you asked for, and what Satan clubs after school tell us about the First Amendment.
At The Atlantic, Annie Lowrey has an interview with Matthew Desmond spinning off his new book about poverty, American style.
This week, at Bucks County Beacon, I did a big ole piece about the Bradley Foundation. They're not as famous as the Koch Brothers, but they deserve to be. \
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