In case you were too caught up in all the Supreme Court excitement, here's a quick recap of this week's commentary from Fordham's blogs:
- “There has been a lot of hand-wringing in the last week about whether charter schools are doing enough to enroll students with disabilities,” Adam Emerson noted on Choice Words. “But are we looking closely at who is among the learning disabled?”
- On Board’s Eye View, Peter Meyer asked the “existential question of school-board membership: Can you suggest improvement without appearing to criticize the current administration, the current system?”
- Kathleen Porter-Magee warned on Common Core Watch that “the guidance that’s starting to emerge about how teachers can best select “grade-appropriate” texts is overly complicated and may actually end up undermining the Common Core’s emphasis on improving the quality and rigor of the texts students are reading.”
- Reviewing the first draft of the Next Generation Science Standards on Flypaper, Checker Finn and Kathleen Porter-Magee argued that “it’s important for America’s and our children’s futures that this come out well. NGSS1.0 got the process started. But NGSS2.0 need to be a lot better.”
- Aaron Churchell and Danyell Lewis examined Ohio’s approach to achievement-gap accountability on the Ohio Gadfly Daily, concluding, “we hope that Ohio won’t award phantom accountability points to schools without achievement gaps to close, while also appropriately rewarding schools that truly close achievement gaps.”
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