Education News, Analysis, and Commentary
As I mentioned in December I don’t have a big take on the whole “should schools stay open?” debate. That’s because it seems situational to me and there are a whole bunch of secondary questions like what’s the local context with regard to Covid and other things, for whom should they be open, how, etc…* …
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Hope you had a good weekend, hopefully not arguing with relatives about politics unless you enjoy that kind of thing. Congratulations to 100Kin10 on their impact, Bellwether helped them assess and evaluate their data earlier this year. Here’s an education playbook from ExcelinEd. Recommend this deep dive on integration from Minneapolis. Former Bellwarian, current Seattle Public …
A little election reax. I did an interview with The 74, it’s a 5 questions kind of deal. The post-mortem you need to read. @KevinMahnken talks to @arotherham about the aftermath of what most educators said they always wanted: An election where K-12 issues were front and center. @The74 https://t.co/3O0ZvlvmGb — Andrew Brownstein (@Misterodney) November …
Bellwether’s Brian Robinson on learning loss: It’s time to move beyond the semantics of what to call the problem and instead figure out what we’re going to do about it. Yesterday Merrick Garland announced that DOJ would take a look at what’s happening with regard to school board meeting protests and parents threatening school officials. …
Continue reading “Today In Targets…Letters…And Ozy’s Edu Audience. Plus Learning Loss Pragmatism…”
Some odds and ends: We do know how to teach kids to read, so it’s worth asking why we often don’t? Everyone loves to hate on Success Academy but it’s hard to argue with this kind of agility – and they have more than 20k kids so it’s not about size. Mark Twain remarked that nothing …
Continue reading “School Transportation – A Legit Crisis? Designer Genes, NCLB Tropes, More…”
What does it say about our sector that it falls to the Marxist who wrote a whole book criticizing reform and schooling to write the most straightforward stuff about the patent absurdity of our testing “debate?” It’s at least entertaining I guess. Rural education blog series via Bellwether – rural is more diverse than perhaps you …
I’ve walked the Normandy beaches a few times in my life. It’s a windswept place, damp and desolate in winter even more than most beach towns. Yet on warm summer days people are on the beaches enjoying them. That can seem jarring and almost disrespectful if you consider a place like Omaha Beach to be …
Continue reading “Odds & Ends: Holidays, Panic Has A Point Worth Discussing, History…”
I wrote in The 74 about the debate over transgender students and sports and why and how I think we can do better. Guest post below from Shilpi! This is a pretty good take on the CRT wars, that might help answer the why so little attention to the structural problems in education at a time …
Continue reading “Odds & Ends: ARP Plans, CRT, 14% Of Charlottesville Parents Asking WTF? More…”
Don’t miss Bellwether’s annual report and we’re hiring for a pretty key role – COO. If it bleeds it leads, as they say. This is one way coverage in the education sector is distorted. Another is an adult-focused politics, so more stories about battles between adults about school opening than say about millions of kids missing …
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John Bailey is out with a new round-up of studies about school and Covid in an effort to push the reopening debate. 74 here. I wanted to write on CTE and Miguel Cardona, but work and life have thwarted those plans. So here’s something brief. This piece by Tamar Jacoby is a good look at some …
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