We've got plenty to look at this week. I'll remind you that sharing is caring, and if you find something here that speaks to you, do the original writer a solid and push that piece out on your networks. It's hard to penetrate the interwebs these days, and if we want the message to get out, we have to do our part to boost the signal (which is exactly why I put up this digest of worthwhile reads every Sunday).
Some weeks I try to subtly organize the readings on the list, but this week the list is big, so I'm just going to turn on the firehose and let it rip.
Short answer: no. The longer answer can be found in this coverage of the research by 12News.
Jennifer Jennings, a Princeton professor and Director of Education Research Section, lays out how the Arizona vouchers are making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
MCPS made him reverse Beidleman sex harassment finding—and then retaliated, he alleges
Moms for Liberty wants funds cut to Alabama libraries that let kids check out ‘pornographic material’
South Western seeks out legal advice as it pursues anti-LGBTQ+ policies
Looking Ahead in 2024: Scanning the Predictions for Education in the New Year
Texas' Greg Abbott goes after fellow Republicans
Librarian faced spate of insults. Thousands of people came to his defense.
County Teachers To Submit Nicknames For Parental Permission Following Board Passage Of Model Policies
Connecticut Board of Education Adopts ‘Bill of Rights’ for Non-English Speakers
Star Tech: The Next Generation of Record-Keeping
Florida school district removes dictionaries from libraries, citing law championed by DeSantis
A 'major win' for PEN America, publishers, and parents in book ban lawsuit
LSU’s “Diversity and Inclusion” Language Erasure on *New Gov Eve*
Alexandra Robbins is an award-winning reporter who last year published an awesome book about teaching. She's also a substitute teacher in Montgomery County VA, and she turned her reporting skills to a local story of administrative harassment and how the district handled it.
AL.com reporter Williesha covers one more variation on the recurring theme. Note this is not just school libraries, but all libraries under attack.
North Carolina is one more state where authorities are questioning the low accountability of charters and proposing tighter rules. Cue the squawks of outrage. By T. Keung Hui at the News Observer (waring--it has one of those "answer a question and give us your email" walls).
Far right school board candidates didn't lose everywhere, and this rural PA district is getting ready to implement some anti-LGBTQ policies, and they're giving the Independence Law Center another chance to pull the same old song and dance.
If you are a huge fan of pieces predicting stories for the upcoming year, International Education News has collected a ton of links to all the best ones for 2024.
Greg Abbott's voucher love is a deep and wide thing, and he is willing to finance election attacks on the fellow Republicans who thwarted his voucher dreams. Asher Price at Axios Austin.
Librarian faced spate of insults. Thousands of people came to his defense.
At the Washington Post, Sydney Page offers an encouraging profile of Mychal Threets, super-library fan and internet-famous librarian.
Just one on-the-ground example of what dumb policies look like. Ashlyn Campbell at the Daily News Record looks at what the policies adopted in the Rockingham County School District (Virginia) look like for teachers and students. Mostly they look like a mountain of paper.
Jessika Harkay at the CT Mirror reports on a new parental rights bill that could actually do some good.
Nancy Flanagan on the illusory efficiency of high tech classroom tools.
Escambia County in Florida has been leading the state in Dumb Things, and they just made more news by purging all sorts of Naughty Books, like the dictionary. Judd Legum at Popular Information has the story.
A 'major win' for PEN America, publishers, and parents in book ban lawsuit
Speaking od Escambia County, some good news in the lawsuit filed against them for First Amendment violations. Jennie McKeon reports for WUWF.
The Mass. teacher who had the cops called on her over ‘Gender Queer’ has an attorney and wants answers
Science of Reading and EL Education: What is It?
Support Black IL Teacher Targeted By Moms4Liberty
The anti-DEI movement has gone from fringe to mainstream. Here’s what that means for corporate America
Remember that teacher in Massachusetts who was visited by police looking for a Naughty Book? She's still pissed, and she'd still like some answers. Abby Patkin at Boston.com with the story.
How exactly does a specific program deliver Science of Reading swellness? Nancy Bailey looks at one particular program to try to find the answer.
I don't generally link to GoFundMe pages, but this one comes with a good summary of the story involved, and a chance to do something about it.
Joelle Emerson writing at Fortune. This focuses on the corporate world rather than education, but it's all the same debate.
Apparently Louisiana State University has scrubbed away its DEI. The indispensable Mercedes Schneider has the story.
How a true believer’s flawed research helped legitimize home schooling
How one north Minneapolis elementary school cut disruptive behavior calls by 75%
Scholars Aren’t Studying the Questions Education Leaders Care About Most
Playing Jazz, Rebounding Basketball Shots, and Teaching Lessons: Instant Decision-Making
Cutting Through the Culture War Distractions to Preserve Public Education
The better off in Florida are homophobic, racist adults, Gov. DeSantis, not kids
Portland teacher ‘Bob’ recounts finding Alaska Airlines door in yard
Laura Meckler ran this story in the Washington Post a month ago, and I missed it then, But it's an important one. All that stuff you hear about how homeschoolers do better academically than public school kids? That's one guy's research, and it's rather iffy stuff.
Mara Klecker at the Star Tribune reports on how they did it--and it wasn't one weird trick. Turns out it helps to let the littles have some active time, among other things.
Thomas Ultican looks at the folks trying to sell AI to education, and look-- it's many of the usual suspects.
Rick Hess at Education Week talks about why there can be such a disconnect between education research and actual classrooms.
"How Can I Know What I Think Till I See What I Say?"
Can education research actually be useful in the classroom? Jose Luis Vilson has some thoughts about how and why that can work out.
I'm including this Teacher Tom piece strictly on the weight of the title, because that is a process I recognize from many many of my students.
I've played traditional jazz trombone most of my life, and I can't begin to explain just how much teaching in a classroom and playing jazz feel, on some gut level, exactly alike. This piece gets at it. Great insights from Larry Cuban.
Jan Resseger looks at the important stuff being hidden behind the culture wars.
The better off in Florida are homophobic, racist adults, Gov. DeSantis, not kids
Ron DeSantis has taken to claiming that kids are so much better off in Florida now that he has fixed education. At the Miami Herald, Fabiola Santiago begs to differ.
Sometimes you just have to pause your regular lesson plans to incorporate something you have to share--like the time a piece of a Boeing 373 fell into your back yard. Such a fun story from Maxine Bernstein at The Oregonian.
At Forbes this week, I looked at a report showing just what a hot mess Arizona's universal voucher program has turned out to be.
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