Since, as far as media go, we are well into the noise and nonsense stage of the campaign, perhaps you'd like to read about other stuff, like education things. So here's your list for the week. Also, Happy Halloween.
Did you know that the Operation Varsity Blues mastermind is out of jail, and back in the same business? Testing guru Akil Bello knows, and he also knows that old test scores make a weird sort of credential.
The Guardian works out the price tag for defending public schools against culture panic artists and holy smokes but that's some expensive panic!
Teaching as loving grace
I referenced this piece earlier in the week, but it's good enough that I'm putting it here, too. Benjamin Riley writes "an ode to human teaching."
Nancy Flanagan reminding us that SEL is always in the classroom.
Latest OCPF Filings; and the Larsen A. Whipsnade “Never give a sucker an even break” Media Awards
Early Developmental Competencies: Or Why Pre-K Does Not Have Lasting Effects
My Uber Driver Doesn’t Get the Fine Art of Fighting for Education Freedom
First SC state-level challenges include 1984, Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird, YA titles
Maurice Cunningham gives credit where it's due to Massachusetts media that don't bother to dig into what's behind certain "parent" groups.
Jose Vilson on baseball, the five c's, and what progressive education is, maybe.
At Defending the Early Years, Dale C. Farran with an excellent, research-based, and layperson-friendly explanation of why jamming academics into four year olds is so often a losing proposition. This post is two and a half years old, but it's been circulating again recently and it is just so good, so here it is again.
This is Rick Hess at Education Next and I know, I know-- I disagree with him on a whole bunch of stuff, too. But he can be one of the most intellectually honest of the reformsters, and this piece uses one more imaginary Uber driver to point out some of the problems with reformster rhetoric.
Sue Kingery Woltanski reports on the latest Florida shenanigans to devalue the profession
Republican Attorneys General to Court: We Demand More Pregnant Teens
Republican Attorneys General to Court: We Demand More Pregnant Teens
Yes, really. Madiba Dennie at Balls and Strikes has the details.
Steve Nuzum passes along news from South Carolina, where naughty books can be challenged on the state level. Surely there's no way that can end badly.
From Politics to Hate: Exposing LGBTQ+ People to Extremist Content
Charter school enrollment has grown, but research shows they have long performed worse than traditional schools
How Americans See Men and Masculinity
Over at Forbes.com, I took a look at a proposal in Wisconsin that would make more explicit the idea of two different systems (and tiers) of education.
We don't hear a lot from Alaska, but Matthew Beck blogs about the state at The Blue Alaskan. Here's a story about a lady who wants to play with the Libs of TikTok crowd, to the detriment of education.
Doomed to Fail
A new Network for Public Education report about charter failure is out and, we have looks at the results from Jan Resseger and Thomas Ultican.
Meanwhile, other research in Minnesota reaches the same conclusions.
Pew Research releases a multipage collection of data and charts and graphs all about how Americans of various ages and genders and politics view masculinity. Nothing about education exactly, unless of course you want to talk about the education of young men. Fascinating stuff.
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