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):
California Will Launch The Nation’s Largest Free Student Lunch Program is from NPR.
The short- and long-run impacts of secondary school absences is a new research paper.
Why a new law requiring Asian American history in schools is so significant is from Vox.
Big education funders Gates, Walton, and Chan Zuckerberg are coming together to seek ‘breakthroughs.’ Will it work? is from Chalkbeat. These foundations never seem to learn. They use words like “moonshot.” Why don’t the fund basic stuff (very short and engaging professional development videos on instructional strategies we know that work, for example) instead of pursuing pie-in-the-sky ideas that never work? I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Learning About The Role Of Private Foundations In Education Policy.
Important Questions to Ask About Education Research appeared in Medium. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Understanding How To Interpret Education Research.
Reflections on What Pandemic-Related State Test Waiver Requests Suggest About the Priorities for the Use of Tests is an interesting new report from Calder. Here’s a particularly useful chart that appears in it:
Before we dive into the actual waiver requests, we think it’s useful to start by framing the conversation around what standardized tests might be used for and who they might be used by. This helps to talk about policy implications in concrete terms. pic.twitter.com/gzQ6pVRHef
— Paul Bruno (@Paul__Bruno) July 16, 2021
This next tweet is intriguing:
Based on your suggestions, we (@nate_brown12 & I) have put together a Twitter-verse tournament: #LowHangingFruitofEdPolicy
You can see the entries here: https://t.co/5T2pD0miG1
(2/5)
— Dan Goldhaber (@CEDR_US) July 12, 2021
I’m adding this tweet to The Best Sites For Learning That Money Does Matter For Schools:
Revised meta-analysis of school spending effects with @c_mackevicius. Consistent pos relationship between spending and better outcomes in credibly causal studies. Robust to many modeling decisions, “fixes” for publication bias, and even confounding.https://t.co/OeLTzbQac3 pic.twitter.com/Cge8iSSSBB
— C. Kirabo Jackson (@KiraboJackson) July 23, 2021
Kiley focuses on school vouchers in California recall campaign is from Politico.
Important Questions to Ask About Education Research appeared in Medium. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Understanding How To Interpret Education Research.
How many times can this observation be applied to new programs / initiatives in schools? ——“But little attention is being paid to making things work, rather than making them exist.” https://t.co/0qvdGclPXW
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 27, 2021
🚨Now out in @AeraOpen!
Both survey & observational data suggest external classroom interruptions add up to 10 to 20 days of lost instructional time over an academic year, enough time to consider all PPSD students truant or even chronically absent.https://t.co/3bN2obNTsx
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— Matthew A. Kraft (@MatthewAKraft) July 26, 2021
I’m adding this next tweet to
I have a lot of respect for @alexanderrusso and I agree with just about everything @WhiteRhinoRay says in this piece https://t.co/a6I6QklBoR
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 26, 2021
This is an argument against every public good and that’s not how public goods work. Why should we pay, then, for public school if our kids attend private or we have no kids? Why pay for libraries if we choose to and have the ability to buy books instead of borrow? https://t.co/MSGoLfLTKh
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 28, 2021
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