Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
Coming Attractions: On 6/30, I’ll be leading a keynote discussion at the NACPS conference on the state of the charter school sector. Jed Wallace and I will also record a WonkyFolk later in the day. I hope you’ll also check out sessions by my Bellwether colleagues Carrie Irvin and Jenn Schiess on academic recovery and finance. ICYMI …
It’s SEL Week here at Eduwonk! On Wednesday we talked about how SEL is not inherently crazy political and to the extent people try to make it that way SEL leaders should push back. Today, there is a new essay from Panic at the Pondiscio arguing SEL is not a Trojan Horse for CRT while …
Here’s Chad Ratliff – Assistant Superintendent in Virginia’s Albemarle County* Public Schools for instruction and innovation – with a shark he and his son pulled in a few weeks ago (presumably before it could bite anyone).** They let it go. And former CRS analyst and current R Street Institute wonk (and actual whiskey expert) Kevin …
Chad Ratliff is in the leadership of Albemarle County Public Schools (county that surrounds Charlottesville) and he recently took his kids fishing on the Elk River in West Virginia – with good results. Past fish porn via this link.