Some real must -reads in this week's list, so if you usually just kind of skim and run, I encourage you to sample some of this week's assortment (if, in fact, you missed these when they appeared this week). Remember to share.
Many of us have been poking around the Alpha School grift, but Ben Riley went and committed some real journalism in digging into the outfit and its students. Don't miss this story or the follow-up, in which Alpha students respond to his piece.
Sue Kingery Woltanski thinks Floridians should pay attention to the new Commissioner of Education, who is saying the quiet part out loud-- let's just do away with public schools.
Josh Cowen makes the case for an actual education plan for Democratic governors, which would certainly be a change of pace.
Anne Lutz Fernandez hist some of the highlights in the battle against ed tech, and why that backlash is good for the country.
Who Will Enforce the New A.I. Rules? Probably Teachers.
Vouchers Promise Students With Disabilities a Path to Private School. Parents Say That’s Not the Reality.
James Barron at the New York Times with the unsurprising news that New York's new AI policy will probably end up being one more burden on teachers.
Jennifer Berry Hawes and Jennifer Smith Richards at ProPublica explain that vouchers are actually really lousy at providing education opportunity for students with special needs. It's schools' choice. This is a great, well-sourced piece about the illusion of choice.
More than 1 in 10 Ohio Charter Schools suspected of “testing anomalies”
Success Academy Sues NYSED For Inadvertently Exposing That They Have Been Gaming The US News & World Report Rankings For Years
Gary Rubinstein has been tracking Success Academy shenanigans for a long time. Here's the newest one-- they're upset that their technique for gaming the US News rankings has been undercut by the state.
Stephen Dyer continues to dig into the news about "testing anomalies" (aka "cheating") in Ohio schools. One more way charters are just like public schools.
Gary Rubinstein has been tracking Success Academy shenanigans for a long time. Here's the newest one-- they're upset that their technique for gaming the US News rankings has been undercut by the state.
The Edu-Optimists, Part II: CREDO, the Pro-Charter Research Shop That Won’t Take No Effect for an Answer
I've explained before how CREDO's "days of learning" is a bullshit metric, but Freddie deBoer offers a really detailed explanation of some of the data massaging that CREDO uses to make charter schools look way more effective than they actually are.
Thomas Ultican takes a look at the big picture of privatization in California.
At Slate, Rebecca Onion takes a look at the youth-sports industry (currently being strip-mined by private equity. And while travel sports have begun making absurd demands on young athletes, Onion also notes that these demands get in the way of ordinary socializing and connection-building. Can't hang out with your friends-- or even make friends-- if you've got Soccer every single night and all weekend.
Andy Spears amplifies and extends a point I made here at the Institute
Jan Resseger reminds us that vouchers aren't the only major threat to public education in Ohio.
Education funding expert Bruce Baker lays out how to trace the money that goes to, and through, charter schools. Especially useful if you have been trying to figure all this out for your local charter school.
Yes, this kind of stuff is still going on. Noor Haghighi reports for AZPM news.
Steve Nuzum explains how standards about "ideology" make great cover for discriminating against art (and policies and people) that you just don't like.
Friend of the Institute Nancy Flanagan just had a birthday, and as always, she finds the connections between the personal and the larger picture.
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