But now that Thanksgiving adventures are over and we are into what my priest friend calls the War on Advent, here's some reading to do from this week.
Tim Daly at the Fordham Institute house organ offering an actually-kind-of-thoughtful take on some of the issues of grade inflation. Even if, like me, you're not convinced grade inflation is a real thing, this piece gives some food for thought about grading stuff.
Steven Singer takes a look about the many ways that standardized tests fail our students.
Controversial PragerU videos gain educational foothold in a handful of states
Morning prayer, Bibles and Bible studies: Parent says school is pushing religion
Oklahoma restricted how race can be taught. So these Black teachers stepped up
By Adding Huge School Voucher Entitlement for the Rich, Ohio Rises Near Top in State Spending on School Privatization
Remembering My Father, With Gratitude
In other annoying news...
Morning prayer, Bibles and Bible studies: Parent says school is pushing religion
Dylan Brown reports from Oklahoma, the Florida of the West.
On the other hand, as seen in this NPR piece, Oklahoma also has some teachers doing their best to counter-balance the state's worst behavior.
GOP states are embracing vouchers. Wealthy parents are benefitting.
In sweeping order, court holds NH school funding model is unconstitutionally low
Policy Dialogue: The Rodriguez Decision and Its Legacy
41 Ways a Big Lie Continues to Haunt America’s Public Schools
REVEALED: Confidential documents describe secret effort to elect lawmakers for school privatization
Is There A ‘Stop The Steal’ Movement Brewing In Central Bucks School District?
Virginia school cancels classes due to teacher protest over classroom violence: 'No one listens'
Why Is the College Board Pushing to Expand Advanced Placement?
Republican Appointed to Arkansas State Library Board Suggested Jesus Would Burn Books
The Andrew Atterbury piece from Politico misses a few critical points, but it still provides an overview voucher shenanigans on the national scale
New Hampshire is part of the court-ordered fix your damned funding club,
From Cambridge, a conversation about the most important SCOTUS education decision (widely considered the worst decision in modern court history), between Bruce Baker and David Hinojosa. Informative and useful.
Nancy Bailey with a pretty comprehensive list of the damages done by the Reagan administration's hit job on public education.
Phil Williams at News Channel 5 in Nashville with the not entirely surprising news that school privatizers do some back room coordinating to get their policy pals in place. And he has receipts.
It appears that even though they were soundly clobbered, defeated Republican school board members in Bucks County are going to challenge the election. Cyril Mychalenjko in the Bucks County Beacon.
Meanwhile, out in the trenches, teachers are getting really tired of violence and disorder and no administrative back up. News from channel 7.
Dana Goldstein looks at the various challenges facing the College Board in its quest to make a buck.
Arkansas has a problem with anti-public ed people in public office, and it just got worse. Who better to put in charge of state libraries than a guy who doesn't believe in books.
Thomas Ultican takes a look at California charters to see if that sector's growth is, in fact, all stalled out.
Ohio is going to sink a mountain of money into vouchers. Jan Resseger breaks it down.
Sue Kingery Woltanski pens a nice tribute to her father. Then she gets into a conversation about vouchers with her own personal troll.
This week over at the Bucks County Beacon, I took a look through what the right-wing Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 has in mind for public education.
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