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):
Does Money Matter for Schools? NAEP Scores Reopen the Debate is from Ed Week. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning That Money Does Matter For Schools.
I think we can all agree that the mandate we wanted was the US Department of Education micromanaging college admissions nationwide.
— Morgan Polikoff (@mpolikoff.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I wrote about what decades of attacks on K-12 teachers can tell us about this new assault on the civil service
www.vox.com/donald-trump…
— Rachel Cohen (@rachelmcohen.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 6:46 AM
apnews.com/article/utah… Utah governor signs collective bargaining ban for teachers, firefighters and police unions
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Eliminate the data, eliminate the problem!
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 5:53 AM
“They have unwittingly canceled some of the best education research out there, along with major national surveys and tests that are crucial to tracking America’s educational performance.”
— Paul Bruno (@paul-bruno.com) February 14, 2025 at 4:06 AM
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
What this means is “We should have the parental freedom to increase the risk of a measles epidemic, and the return of polio, in our kids’ schools.” https://t.co/4FEGVWAo5F
— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) February 15, 2025
This is absolutely ridiculous. And it is what happens when you judge a program in 15 seconds with zero content knowledge based on a description in a single database.
This is not government reform. https://t.co/6jf37X6PCf
— Adam Ozimek (@ModeledBehavior) February 14, 2025
As I’ve said before, Donald Trump is a master of identifying fake problems. Very few schools mandate the Covid vaccine. When you’re the president every second counts, so it’s best to focus all of your time and energy on real problems. https://t.co/gXW0836MUz
— Anthony LaMesa (@ajlamesa) February 14, 2025
Medicaid Cuts Threaten Schools and Children is from New America.
Very interesting student responses to the NY Times Learning Network question: Are Highly Structured Classes Better for Learning?
How Black teachers make a difference is from NCTQ. I’m adding it to New & Revised: The Best Resources For Understanding Why We Need More Teachers Of Color.
This kind of attitude is SO common. Once, our local newspaper editorialized that teachers from the high school who only admitted students based on grades and test scores should train the rest of us on how to teach since their students scored so high on state tests
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
How’s that working out for them?
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) February 16, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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— Paul Bruno (@paul-bruno.com) February 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Under Plyler & McKinney-Vento:
🍎 You can’t refuse to enroll a kid just because they don’t have a birth certificate—or because they have a foreign one.
🍎 You can’t deny enrollment to homeless kids just because they can’t verify residency.These are legal rights, not suggestions.
— Jen Jennings (@jenjennings.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Over the weekend, the Department of Education threatened to pull federal funding from public schools that don’t dump DEI by the end of the month
Though the letter lacks the force of law, advocates are warning about this latest attempt to squash diversity efforts
— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
New in PN: Trump’s weaponized Department of Education
“The administration is already using the DOE to attack trans kids while shuttering nearly every civil rights investigation. It’s an abdication of the govt’s role in protecting students from discrimination and a grim example of weaponization.”
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
“Among the cancellations was an 11-year study of youths with disabilities … to identify which programs were effective … More than 1,000 youths with disabilities were supposed to receive special instruction and support in 2025 and 2026 through this study, which has now been terminated.”
— Morgan Polikoff (@mpolikoff.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Colleges, K-12 schools ordered by Trump administration to abolish DEI or face funding cuts https://t.co/TvH4eV6m1g
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) February 17, 2025
I’ll be interested in hearing the details of the programs they canceled. Students will suffer for it.
— Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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): Does Money Matter for Schools? NAEP Scores Reopen the Debate is from Ed Week. I’m adding it to The Best Sites For Learning That Money Does Matter school reform Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
