Was it a good week? Do you feel appreciated now? Good, because it's time for the world to move on to other things. But in the meantime, here's some reading.
A teacher spoke out against offering 'opposing' views on the Holocaust. It derailed her career.NBC ran an excerpt from Mike Hixenbaugh's new book about the right wing assault on education. Among other features of this story, a peak at how far these folks are willing to go to ruin life for the people they disagree with.
When Conservative Parents Revolt
Some more Hixenbaugh. This time at the Atlantic, looking back to Reagan prequel to curent culture panic.
How going back to the SAT could set back college student diversity
Press Reports Ranking American High Schools Mislead the Public
Yes, The Boston Globe Can Report Who Is Funding K-12 Dark Money Interests. Or Not. It’s a Choice.
School districts working with anti-LGBTQ groups can cost your kids’ schools millions
Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names
Judge partly sides with plaintiffs suing to stop Arkansas’s ban on ‘critical race theory,’ ‘indoctrination’
Disingenuous Republicans want to force overworked NC public school teachers to post all lesson plans online because indoctrination
I missed this story when it ran at The Conversation back in April, but it's still worth a look.
Jan Resseger walks us through the debunking of US News high school rankings, because they are just as dumb as you think they are.
Maurice Cunningham, dark money expert, points out that certain major media outlets could report on that sort of thing if they really wanted to.
In Pennsylvania, the Independence Law Center will help your district craft anti-LGBTQ, anti-diversity, anti-reading rules, and they'll do it pro bono. Just don't be surprised if it ends up costing you some real money.
Sam Cabral reports for BBC News about one district's crusade to honor treasonous losers.
Benjamin Hardy reports for Arkansas Times on a setback for the governor's repressive plan.
Justin Parmenter blogs about the newest plan to make life more miserable for teachers in North Carolina.
A Brooking study discovers some non-shocking news-- Arizona's vouchers are mostly just a taxpayer-funded subsidy for the wealthy.
Jill Barshay at Hechinger takes a look at current data about segregation in US education. Not entirely encouraging.
Laura Meckler at Washington Post. "Unexpected" is doing a lot of work here, because lots of folks totally expected this-- the secret ingredient in renewed segregation is school choice.
School district secession continues to be a popular way to re-establish segregation. Beth Hawkins reports for the 74.
A radical notion, reported for the AP by Terry Spencer. In Florida, of all places.
There's a lot to dig through in this story, but eventually you arrive at the root of the problem-- Iowa's decision to give state funding to schools on a per pupil basis. It's a warning for every state following a similar path.
John Warner at Inside Higher Education with some smart thoughts about some not-smart thoughts about ChatGPT and its ilk.
Utah set up a hotline so that folks could report any violations of the state's trans bathroom ban. It has gone about as well as you might expect.
The Grinch Who Stole Teacher Appreciation Week
Nancy Flanagan on the business of guilting teachers into a few extra miles.
Nancy Bailey does a quick inventory of the junk we've been stuck with through forty years of bad corporate reformster baloney.
From Wired. A data breach in Australia is a reminder that surveillance includes collecting a lot of sensitive data that may or may not be well protected.
Ah, my fond memories of programming in BASIC on punch cards back in 1979. Happy birthday to a generation's first computer programming language.
Meanwhile, over at the Bucks County Beacon, a piece about the group that's pushing school chaplains.
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