This coming week I'll be visiting the Board of Directors' elementary school (though not their classes) to talk about the exciting world of free lance writing. Pro: you can work in the clothes you like. Con: if it's your only source of income, you will be able to afford the clothes you like. Thank goodness I have my fat teacher pension to pad my income, as well as hitching my wagon to the CMO, who is still gainfully employed, because I really lack the self-promotion hustle gene needed to make this work. I know I mention this often, but my success in this work is largely the result of the kindness and signal boosting of others, which is one big reason that once a week I take a moment to signal boost others. It's a tough media world out there, and we need each other.
So let's see what we've got this week.
She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.Jeremy Schwartz has this great story at ProPublica. Courtney Gore ran for school board with every intent of rooting out all the indoctrinatin' and CRT. She won, and two things happened. First, she found that the terrible stuff just wasn't there. Second, she found out that her right-wing backers didn't care. This is her story.
Everyone already knew this, but now there's actual research to back it up.
Nick Morrison at Foprbes.com writes up a study that shows zero tolerance doesn't help, at all.
Brown v. Board had a birthday this week, and one of the better pieces to mark it was this one by Peter Piazza at Hechinger, pointing out that we have missed a few insights from the case, including the idea that segregation is bad for white kids, too.
Jennifer Berry Hawes at ProPublica looking at the history of segregation academies and how they persist today.
Steven Suitts wrote a good little book about how Brown connects with education reform. Here at Southern Spaces, he takes a look at how things stand now (not great) and where certain states are headed (even worse).
Michael Harriot at the Grio is always a good read.
The South Florida Sun Sentinel has some blistering thoughts about Florida's black box of a voucher program.
Sue Kingery Woltanski looks at several rankings that Florida has received lately, and explains how to separate useful insights from accountabaloney.
Jim Walton gives $500K to defend Arkansas school vouchers from ballot measure
'They’re trying to destroy public ed'
Half a million dollars to protect Arkansas vouchers from any untoward effects of democracy.
Meet Arizona superintendent Curtis Finch, who in an interview with Channel 12 news in Phoenix. He's blunt, and he gets it.
“It didn’t matter. It’s all about creating doubt in the public. That’s all these critics are doing. They’re out to destroy public ed.”
Just Who is Trashing Public Education?
TX: HISD’s Mike Miles Using Texas Tax Dollars to Subsidize Colorado Charter Debt
'That parent was me': South Western school board president filed complaint that led to book ban
Loophole allows Minnesota charter schools to award $132 million in contracts without following state anti-corruption rules
José Vilson: Good Math Education Is a ‘Civil Right’
It’s Not (Really) About Diversity
States Persistently Fail to Invest Enough in their Public Schools
The Art of Being an Education Guru
Nancy Flanagan with a reminder of who is coming after public education, and why. Also, the baloney they say on the way.
Gary Rubinstein has long followed the shenanigans at Success Academy, and these are extra shady--creating special ed students for fun and profit.
Mike Miles continues to live down to everyone's low expectations, but at least his charter chain is raking in some money. The indispensable Mercedes Schneider has the story.
How one school board president is quietly working hard, but quietly, to work out his culture panic issues.
Becky Dernbach for Sahan Journal unveils one more style of charter scam. Well, not so much a scam, but a wide open absence of rules.
Edutopia sent Andrew Boryga to interview the JLV, and the result is an interview about both math and education and what we should aspire to.
Aaron Pallas and Alex Chin dissect the argument that we need to bring back the SAT and ACT because diversity.
Paul Thomas has been teaching and writing for quite a while. So what exactly is "good" writing, anyway?
Yeah, you knew this already, but Jan Resseger has, as usual, done her homework and can back it up with data and analysis.
Yeah, I know you may not like him, but this Rick Hess interview with a couple of imaginary gurus is still funny, and familiar.
Anne Lutz Fernandez reminds us of "the tech that gets students reading and writing."
Cory Doctorow with another set of depressing insights into why tech is not our friend.
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