Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here):
To Hold Back Struggling Readers or Not: Indiana & Ohio Take Different Paths is from The 74.
Breaking News: The city of Uvalde, Texas, reached a $2 million settlement with families of children shot in a 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School. https://t.co/h3pJ9pucU5 pic.twitter.com/zApEXToS4x
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 22, 2024
Teachers, school boards threaten to sue over Gov. Newsom’s fix for revenue shortfall is from Ed Source.
It’s pretty wild the extent to which we have the causal relationship between poverty & education almost entirely backwards in the United States.
No single educational intervention addresses systemic poverty, but virtually every anti-poverty program improves educational outcomes.
— Nick Covington (@CovingtonEDU) May 22, 2024
.@the74‘s indefatigable @KevinMahnken on @GregAbbott_TX maneuvers to turn #Texas into “the country’s biggest school choice marketplace as soon as 2025.” https://t.co/pmhDSNSedD #ESAs
— Greg Toppo (@gtoppo) May 22, 2024
Sacramento parents, teachers rally to save RydeFreeRT program | Sacramento Bee https://t.co/MAOPGXZWyk
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 24, 2024
I appreciate @EmNewsDC for the opportunity to discuss the HISD state takeover and research from @BethSchueler @MimiArnoldLyon and myself on ABC News.https://t.co/O9RxULxZin pic.twitter.com/Mz2jYHYqwn
— Josh Bleiberg (@JoshBleiberg) May 24, 2024
Where classrooms are becoming too hot for learning https://t.co/5wvM62Bd04
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 24, 2024
I’m adding this next tweet to The Best Resources For Understanding How To Interpret Education Research:
In education, use of terms ‘Evidence-based’ & ‘Science of…’ Raise 5 distinct questions for @alfiekohn :
“1. What kind of evidence?
2. Evidence of what?
3. Evidence of an effect on whom?
4. Evidence of an effect at what cost?
5. Does “evidence-based” refer to evidence at all?” https://t.co/nq0idjZEo8
— Helen Proulx (@HelenProulx2) May 23, 2024
Can you imagine? Thousands of high school seniors worked hard, got into their dream school, & didn’t get to go, not b/c financial aid wouldn’t cover it, but b/c they didn’t know in time whether it would or not. My latest for @hechingerreport & @csmonitor. https://t.co/CnA6c95Rtb
— Gail Cornwall (@gailcornwall) May 22, 2024
Terrific @TexasTribune deep dive into how Texas GOP has gotten increasingly extreme as its reliance on a handful of wealthy right-wing donors has increased. Helps explain fixation on school vouchers despite lack of popularity w/ public or even GOP voters https://t.co/wVeYSUxA5y pic.twitter.com/rs3RD69utV
— Jennifer Berkshire (@BisforBerkshire) May 23, 2024
Also sounds like a lot of edu pundits https://t.co/tChwLtv2o6
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 24, 2024
Mississippi falls short of an eighth-grade literacy miracle https://t.co/mSbTPqf1nw
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 25, 2024
I’m adding this tweet to The Best Posts & Articles On The Impact Of School Closures — Suggest More!:
Imagine writing a piece on school closures and never mentioning the impact on children, communities, and racial differences in school closure rates. https://t.co/w22FUFTpoh
— Ed Fuller (@EdFuller_PSU) May 22, 2024
Here we go again https://t.co/1jOKSrKmig pic.twitter.com/rSwAtm6JXD
— ORGANIZE! (@SoulRevision) May 25, 2024
Gift @nytimes piece on the controversies of middle school math. @JoshGoodman_BU identifies the central issue in the debate:
“It’s the first moment where you potentially make it very obvious and explicit that there are knowledge gaps opening up.”
— Dan Goldhaber (@CEDR_US) May 25, 2024
I’m adding the next several tweets to The Best Resources For Learning Why School Vouchers Are A Bad Idea:
School-voucher programs are currently in place in 20 states, with five launching universal voucher programs in 2023 alone. But reams of evidence show that vouchers negatively impact educational outcomes. Why do they persist? https://t.co/nLSsbyoEL6 pic.twitter.com/JoAX5moPBO
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) May 25, 2024
Not only is @nhannahjones correct, the data shows that the average public school teacher is more educated AND more experienced than the average private school teacher. In fact there’s only one category that private school teachers excel in:
Being white https://t.co/VC36HKyiJ4 pic.twitter.com/8RtE8DH2FH
— Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot) May 25, 2024
It’s a lovely but delusional argument. Because poor children will never have the choices of wealthy people. The vouchers won’t pay for the schools the wealthy children attend and those schools won’t accept the poor students anyway. We should stop pretending vouchers exist due to… https://t.co/rdQ4R7VHCL
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) May 25, 2024
Further, you want to compare ALL public schools to the best private schools. The only real comparison, however, is to compare the highest achieving public schools with the highest achieving private ones. But again, we can’t even know that info.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) May 25, 2024
This comprehensive report is a must read on this topic! https://t.co/M9QQ56ildk
— Leda (@Ldev101) May 25, 2024
Vouchers undermine efforts to provide an excellent public education for all https://t.co/zIGc7jNAWE via @economicpolicy
— Peter Greene (@palan57) May 24, 2024
Trump Elevates a Conservative ‘Warrior’ on Education https://t.co/rzN7va4Yob
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 27, 2024
Does Your Boss Practice Toxic Positivity? is from The Harvard Business Review – I suspect this applies to some principals and superintendents.
What Does It Mean for Teachers to Dress ‘Professionally’? is from Ed Week. I’m adding it to The Best (Or, At Least, The Most Interesting) Posts On Teacher Attire.
I’m adding this video to RESOURCES ON CHALLENGES NATIVE AMERICANS FACE IN SCHOOLS:
I’m adding this video to The Best Resources For Learning Why School Vouchers Are A Bad Idea:
Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here): To Hold Back Struggling Readers or Not: Indiana & Ohio Take Different Paths is from The 74. Breaking News: The city of Uvalde, Texas, reached a school reform Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
