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):
Do No Harm: the Case of U.S. School Reform is by Larry Cuban.
I’m adding this tweet to The Best Evidence For Why Giving Schools “Report Cards” Is Bad — Help Me Find More:
“This is a soft accountability policy that can be model for the nation,” said @UChiConsortium‘s John Easton on how Chicago public school’s new accountability policy can improve teaching and learning rather than punishing schools for low performance. https://t.co/OMYlQ6N7sY
— UChicago Urban Education Institute (@UChicagoUEI) May 5, 2023
3rd Grade Reading Retention: Three Recent Developments is from Ed Week.
I’m adding this next tweet to The Best Websites For Learning About Civic Participation & Citizenship:
Maybe NAEP — GASP! — doesn’t *actually* measure the aspects of citizenship we care about. Eric Soto-Shed of @hgse, Kara McGovern of @UMLSchoolofEd, and I share some new work of ours with relevance: https://t.co/rmmLJPFpMT
— Jack Schneider (@Edu_Historian) May 6, 2023
Yes, high dosage tutoring, as The Washington Post says here and many others say elsewhere, can be very effective. But I still want to know where all these tutors schools r supposed to hire r supposed to b coming from? https://t.co/jTSmViqgKW
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 6, 2023
The second day of a strike by Oakland Unified School District teachers drew to a close Friday with no end of the walkout in sight. https://t.co/X86h5KbR4u
— CBS News Bay Area (@KPIXtv) May 6, 2023
Scholastic made huge mistake here. If they’re actually doing everything they say they’re doing 2 learn from, & make up 4, it (& that’s obviously a big “if”), it seems like a good model 4 other publishers 2 learn from. Of course, there may b other aspects missing from story. https://t.co/VxXJgeFA4l
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) May 6, 2023
Convinced schools are brainwashing kids to be left-wingers, conservatives are seizing control of the American classroom. Read @jonathanchait’s cover story: https://t.co/eLChaJQuMO pic.twitter.com/69yhv2Zj9n
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) May 8, 2023
Florida Rejects Dozens of Social Studies Textbooks, and Forces Changes in Others is from The NY Times.
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