Heather Stark has a girl empowerment book series that she pitches at homeschooling conferences. She writes for Huffpost about the stuff she has encountered ("I am 20 minutes into the presentation when a woman interrupts me. 'When are you going to talk about God in all of this?' she asks.")
The indispensable Mercedes Schneider takes a look at Moms for Liberty's relentless opposition to naughty books, and holds it up against one book with many naughty bits.
Speaking of the Moms, Isabella Volmert reports for the Associated Press on how they've turned up in a mayoral race. I'm not sure how unexpected it is, but the Democrat in the race is using his opposition to the Hitler-quoting chapter to improve his own chances.
School Choice is Becoming Involuntary Tithing
Anne Lutz Fernandez looks at how states have started to "separate taxpayers from more money on behalf of churches." I do like "involuntary tithing" as a way to describe it.
Illinois's voucher law is scheduled to lapse soon, and so lots of voucher fans are doing their best to keep it shambling about in undead form. Julie Vassilatos writes about it.
What are "evidence mills?"Let's say you need some evidence so you can call your new program product "evidence-based." Is there a handy place to order up some evidence? Why, yes, yes there is.
This particular example is from Wisconsin, but it's the same old story-- more vouchers = higher local taxes and/or fewer local services.
You already know, but Andy Spears lays it out here.
At the Conversation, the unsurprising news that when you lower standards, pay goes down, and when pay goes down, people don't to meet rigorous standards, and your clever solution to a teacher :shortage" just makes things worse.
How Teacher Apprenticeship is Changing Teacher Preparation
A Texas Billionaire’s Associates Are Trying to Sink a School Tax Election via Their Dark Money Nonprofit
Mike Miles has some explaining to do. Great teachers HISD shouldn't be afraid.
School Board Elections Could Make (or Break) Our Democracy
Truth & Liberty Coalition expands culture war to 30 Colorado school boards
This Extremist Group Calls Itself A 'Parental Rights' Org. Now It's Targeting School Boards In 1 Key State.
Here's a thing they're trying in some places.
Your list of rich guys trying to mess with education should include Tim Dunn of Texas. Here's just one example of his special brand of shenanigans, from ProPublica
The editors of the Houston Chronicle like some of Mike Miles moves for his school takeover, but even they have noticed there are problems when you install a culture of fear.
From The Progressive, a reminder that elections have consequences--even school board elections. Please pay attention.
Steve Ravey at Religion News reports on the advance of Christian Nationalism in Colorado.
Nathalie Baptiste breaks down Moms for Liberty's attempt to get a foothold in Pennsylvania. (I'm sure it has nothing to do with Pennsylvania's being a swing state for 2024.) I hope people are paying attention next Tuesday.
Florida's voucher program is starting to collapse under its own weight. Sue Kingery Woltanski doubts that adding more weight will be a big help.
Same Monkeys At the Wheel
TC Weber breaks down the latest school evaluation monkeyshines in Tennessee.
Jan Resseger presents some highlights from the Network for Public Education conference.
Nancy Bailey looks at the ever-popular bad policy of retention for students who fail a reading test.
SC Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver Addresses School Librarians
Steve Nuzum looks at South Carolina's ed chief's address to school librarians, in all its counterfactual threatening awfulness.
Oh boy.
What Happens When Young People Actually Read “Disturbing” Books
A new study (admittedly a bit narrow) sees what happens if you just let middle schoolers just pick whatever they want to read.
Right-wing fake history is making a big comeback — but it never went away
A quick guide to some of the common themes of fake history.
The Great Social Media–News Collapse
At the Atlantic (beware the paywall) an analysis of what readers and big tech have done to news reporting.
At Forbes this week, I looked at a really interesting free market argument against vouchers, and a group out there trying to combat Moms for Liberty.
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