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Sunday, May 19, 2024

ICYMI: Career Day Edition (5/19)

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.

Iowa school vouchers prompted tuition hikes, researchers find

Everyone already knew this, but now there's actual research to back it up. 

Zero Tolerance Policies In School ‘Promote Further Misbehavior,’ Study Finds

Nick Morrison at Foprbes.com writes up a study that shows zero tolerance doesn't help, at all.

70 years after Brown vs. Board decision, key takeaways remain buried

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.

Segregation Academies Still Operate Across the South. One Town Grapples With Its Divided Schools.

Jennifer Berry Hawes at ProPublica looking at the history of segregation academies and how they persist today.

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

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).

Everything you know about Brown v. Board of Education is wrong

Michael Harriot at the Grio is always a good read.

Still too little light on shadowy voucher schools

The South Florida Sun Sentinel has some blistering thoughts about Florida's black box of a voucher program.

Florida: We’re Number 1! But We Are Also Number 50… What Gives?

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

Half a million dollars to protect Arkansas vouchers from any untoward effects of democracy.

'They’re trying to destroy public ed'

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?

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.

TX: HISD’s Mike Miles Using Texas Tax Dollars to Subsidize Colorado Charter Debt

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.

'That parent was me': South Western school board president filed complaint that led to book ban

How one school board president is quietly working hard, but quietly, to work out his culture panic issues.

Loophole allows Minnesota charter schools to award $132 million in contracts without following state anti-corruption rules

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.

José Vilson: Good Math Education Is a ‘Civil Right’

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.

It’s Not (Really) About Diversity

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?

States Persistently Fail to Invest Enough in their Public Schools

Yeah, you knew this already, but Jan Resseger has, as usual, done her homework and can back it up with data and analysis.

The Art of Being an Education Guru

Yeah, I know you may not like him, but this Rick Hess interview with a couple of imaginary gurus is still funny, and familiar.

In Praise of Paper

Anne Lutz Fernandez reminds us of "the tech that gets students reading and writing."

Even if you think AI search could be good, it won’t be good

Cory Doctorow with another set of depressing insights into why tech is not our friend.

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