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 AP Program Is Broken. You Can Tell, Because Ron DeSantis Loves It. is from Slate.
Virginia students walked out of school Tuesday over Gov. Youngkin’s new proposed transgender student policies.
The guidelines would forbid trans students from changing their names and pronouns at school without their parent’s permission.@Yamiche joins @LlamasNBC for more. pic.twitter.com/cEVPSFCFva
— Top Story with Tom Llamas (@TopStoryNBC) September 28, 2022
“Of schools reporting feeling understaffed, special education teachers (65 percent) and transportation staff (59 percent) were the most understaffed positions.” https://t.co/oizae65eNJ
— Cara Jackson (@cara__jackson) September 27, 2022
For instance, look at the percentage of schools reporting challenges with special education, despite the fact that the special education teacher workforce is far smaller than the general elementary education workforce. pic.twitter.com/wnXgBz37GN
— Dan Goldhaber (@CEDR_US) September 27, 2022
Here’s a radical idea: Instead of a district’s central office coming up with ideas and throwing the results at those of us working in schools, what could happen if they first actually asked us what we needed?
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 28, 2022
I have a lot of respect for many of those who teach in colleges of education. Yet, I have an honest question. Many of them have not taught in a K-12 classroom 4 a long time. How does that compare w/instructors 4 other careers- medical, law enforcement, child care, etc?
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 28, 2022
So how does instructional time in the US compare to other countries?
Using data from the @OECD on intended instructional hours in secondary schools, the US ranks 8th among 36 countries w/ relatively longer school days but shorter school years.
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— Matthew A. Kraft (@MatthewAKraft) September 28, 2022
Unexcused absences contribute the most to lost learning time followed by external classroom interruptions and teacher absences.
Note that these estimates do NOT account for any lost instructional time due to the learning environment or student behavior inside classrooms.
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— Matthew A. Kraft (@MatthewAKraft) September 28, 2022
What if you’re not working hard and making good grades? What if you’re working hard and not making good grades? What if grades don’t mean what Chancellor Banks thinks they mean? https://t.co/PNj9gKq6Sc
— Margaret Thornton, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) (@MaggieEThornton) September 29, 2022
“It’s critically important that if you’re working hard and making good grades, you should not be thrown into a lottery with just everybody.” To be clear: The everybody that the Chancellor is speaking of is the largely poor Blk & Latino students he serves. https://t.co/QQN6J9GVF2
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) September 29, 2022
NYC school announce they will let middle schools consider academic merit in admitting students to some of the city’s most sought-after programs, unraveling pandemic-era rules aimed at injecting racial and economic diversity into a segregated system. https://t.co/QgB1CfJE14
— Laura Meckler (@laurameckler) September 30, 2022
Audit of charter school program finds big problems is from The Washington Post. I’m adding it to The Best Posts & Articles Analyzing Charter Schools.
Some borrowers will no longer be eligible for student loan relief after Education Department reversal is from NBC News.
Note that the *parent power* being celebrated here is that Arizona voters won’t get to weigh in on the massive expansion of a controversial school voucher program they voted against by a margin of 65-35 in 2018. pic.twitter.com/kW57x2GduC
— Jennifer Berkshire (@BisforBerkshire) September 30, 2022
Our dysfunctional district office, initiating duplicative programs and pushing schools to adopt programs that no one wants https://t.co/9AipNDatBc
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 30, 2022
Tes Explains “explains key teaching terminology and answers questions around the use of education research.” I’m adding it to The Best Glossaries Of Education Terminology and to The Best Resources For Understanding How To Interpret Education Research.
A Coming Crisis in Teaching? Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S. is from The Learning Policy Institute. I’m adding it to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE “TEACHER SHORTAGE”
Why Are Fewer People Becoming Teachers? is from Education Next. I’m adding it to the same list.
In education, too. So many superintendents & principals think that if tchrs get more power, they will have less. In fact, more possibilities r then created 4 everyone. Same thing can happen w/ tchrs & students https://t.co/Y1mYrexgz9
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) October 2, 2022
School lunch is too costly for a growing number of families. Will a White House pledge help? is from NBC News.
Attendance Is An Essential Ingredient for Educational Equity is from The Learning Policy Institute. I’m adding it to The Best Resources On Student Absenteeism.
Native American students hope a new education law helps reverse years of misinformation is from CAL Matters. I’m adding it to RESOURCES ON CHALLENGES NATIVE AMERICANS FACE IN SCHOOLS.
I’ve never understood why any educators – or anyone, for that matter – listens to McKinsey. Tonight’s segment on the PBS NewsHour gives even more reason why they should be ignored:
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