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):
The Impending School Lunch Disaster is from Slate.
If you can’t name Biden’s Education secretary, you probably aren’t alone is from Politico.
How Will Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill Play Out in Classrooms? is from Slate.
Teachers fear the chilling effect of Florida’s so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law is from NPR.
Standardized tests in their current format are ‘incredibly antiquated’ is from The Hechinger Report. I’m adding it to Best Posts On How To Prepare For Standardized Tests (And Why They’re Bad).
If you haven’t already seen this next video of Prince at ten supporting a teachers’ strike, check it out:
Strike is over, but Sacramento students must make up lost time — or their schools face penalties https://t.co/B4W3gYwzle pic.twitter.com/VIHwQbMQye
— Sawsan Morrar (@sawsan24) April 5, 2022
Just as we shouldn’t discount resilience students gained from seeing how their parents responded 2 challenges of pandemic when Schools closed, don’t dismiss what they learned from seeing @SacTeachers & @seiu1021 unite 4 successful 8 day strike
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) April 4, 2022
People have no idea what’s coming for public schools… this is deeply concerning. pic.twitter.com/zw09bhUxC8
— Google Anna Julia Cooper (@__itsniaj) April 1, 2022
Proposed Title IX regs to be released soon will address campus sexual assault- but they also are expected to codify rights of transgender students making clear discrimination is illegal under federal law https://t.co/YIDWvzbjVr
— Laura Meckler (@laurameckler) March 30, 2022
And which did MIT choose yesterday? https://t.co/HxwwynA1uJ
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) March 29, 2022
I’m adding these next tweets to The Best Articles Pointing Out That Our Schools Are Not Failing — Please Suggest More (the first tweet shares the major article on the topic; the subsequent ones provide more evidence that lower high school scores are because students who would have dropped out in the past are staying in school):
New: A basic fact about American education — widely believed and repeated — is that the test scores of high school students haven't changed over many decades. But what if that's not true, or at least highly misleading? https://t.co/2qcn3pIY1a
— Matt Barnum (@matt_barnum) March 31, 2022
Many have asked what scores look like for 4th and 8th grade over time (since those are not subject to this bias). Here you go… https://t.co/shbcK70zne pic.twitter.com/LjQpeEstRO
— C. Kirabo Jackson (@KiraboJackson) April 2, 2022
Trying to make causal claims from a time trend of one entity is silly. However, the most severe flattening for 12th-grade has occurred more recently…. consistent with the hypothesis that changing grad rates matter. pic.twitter.com/kzvt1HLbgF
— C. Kirabo Jackson (@KiraboJackson) April 2, 2022
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