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2019 issues to watch. Looks like there will be a teacher strike in LA. A few things to keep in mind: First, teachers are understandably frustrated and mad, their situation is not great. But, at the same time, the district has substantial fiscal challenges, too, that are bad news for students. Yes…two things are true at once! And …
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Racial bias and teacher expectations. Chris Minnich from CCSSO to NWEA. This is a big deal for both organizations. This blog has discussed the demographic burden and how in most of the post-war period it’s been investments in young people but that is changing to the costs associated with caring for the elderly as our …
Tomorrow is National Pimento Cheese Day. Happy Pimento Cheese Day if you celebrate. Also tomorrow, at 7pm on Substack, Virginia parents Todd Truitt, Jaime Osborne, and I will talk about the issues raised in this recent article, not just in VA but nationally. The basic idea that it’s hard to think critically if you don’t have content to think …
At The 74 today I take a look at our national fight over guns and what we are, and are not, talking about. Let me save you some time, don’t mess with Chad Aldeman on pension issues. In fact, he’s a super nice guy, very friendly, even-handed, and eager to be helpful. So if you’re …
Continuing the movie meme, ETS has a new report out, America’s Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation’s Future. If you follow this issue it’s nothing you haven’t read/heard before, skills, economy, and demographics. Still worth checking out though the demographic section didn’t engage on the question of the shifting demographic burden from young to …
In the December 25th Wash. Post Outlook section Stan Hinden discussed the impending retirement of the baby boomers. It’s an enormous issue in terms of the shifting demographic burden. It also matters for schools. Yet rather than preparing, the spending trajectory of the past thirty years has created an assumption that we can just spend …