There's not a lot of rigor in this article, but there are some charts.
Students aren’t benefiting much from tutoring, one new study shows
At Hechinger, Jill Barshay adds another item for the "Research Proves Things You Already Knew" file. Scaling up tutoring to fix pandemic learning loss turns out to be a not so great plan after all.
That study was in Nashville, so TC Weber has some on-the-ground observations about the whole thing. Turns out he could have saved the researchers a little time.
Meanwhile, the voucher debates are still raging in Tennessee. Tori Gessner covers for WKRN.
Texas Jews Say State’s New Bible-Influenced Curriculum Is ‘Wildly Problematic’
Oklahoma schools resist the order to teach from the Bible in classrooms
What a shocker. Greg Abbott's Christianity-infused curriculum is filled with issues for people of other faiths. Linda Jacobson covers the story for The 74.
NPR picks up the ongoing story of school districts in Oklahoma saying "No, thanks" to Ryan Walters' directive to teach the Bible. Short but sweet.
Walters hired a bunch of right wing amateurs to concoct social studies standards for Oklahoma. Now the members of the original committee have seen the results, and they are not happy.
So many, but Thomas Ultican writes about the fake test score improvement and a few other of Walters greatest hits.
Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders Need Help!
Nancy Bailey reports on the mental health crisis among children, and what we are or are not doing about it.
This story is from Utah, but the subjects under debate are familiar in all states. And that includes the growing concern over mental health issues.
Svante Myrick at The Hill offers another piece suggesting that Moms for Liberty are past their sell-by date. Their last summit, she reports, "was a flop."
Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider point out that the privatizers defunding the schools project is well under way. Worth battling The Nation's super-annoying website to read this.
NC public schools feel "suffocated" by lack of funding as voucher deal advances
North Carolina continues its race to the bottom by hollowing out public school funding so that rich folks can have a private school tuition rebate. Alexandria Sands at AXIOS Charlotte.
Not that it matters to the heavily-gerrymandered legislators who pushed this through.
In 2020, President Trump Set Out to Impose His Own Preferred U.S. History Curriculum on All U.S. Public Schools
Voucher Boondoggle: House Advances Plan to Give the Wealthy $1.20 for Every $1 They Steer to Private K-12 Schools
We Need a “Freezing Cold Takes” for Education
All-charter no more: New Orleans opens its first traditional public school in nearly 2 decades
Jan Resseger looks back at Donald Trump's attempt to impose patriotic education on US schools, and why it's one more warning about the damage he would do in a second term.
The feds are back to looking at yet another variation on the DeVosian national tax credit scholarship program. This one has some wrinkles to make it profitable for the rich folk involved. This piece from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy is an excellent explainer of how this kind of program would work.
If you can get past the extreme irony that it's Rick Hess writing this, it's a fun piece calling for "professional accountability for the empty suits who flit from one edu-fad to the next."
Speaking of failed edu-fads, remember when New Orleans would be proof-of-concept for an all-charter school system? Yeah, that didn't work, and now the tide is turning. Ariel Gilreath at Chalkbeat.
Andy Spears writes briefly about the charter school that nobody wanted and which students are now deserting in droves.
Ethan Mollick is talking about the AI-fueled homework apocalypse, which he says has already arrived. Now what?
An actual high school teacher writing a guest essay for the New York Times, arguing in favor of stopping the teenaged rat race
I was busy elsewhere this week. At the Bucks County Beacon, I wrote a piece about Pennsylvania's premiere right wing school board policy shop trying to look more secular.
At Forbes.com, a look at an attempt to undo decades of school funding reform, and the surprise move by the South Carolina Supreme Court to strike down their voucher program.
Also had the experience--again--this week of having META take down a posting of one of my pieces because some bot judged it to be spam. These days substack seems the most reliable way to get my stuff out into the world. Consider signing up if you haven't already.
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