WHAT WE’RE READING
Running a school like a start-up doesn’t guarantee success. Bay Area families are looking for a new school after Priscilla Chan’s “bold education experiment” fell short of its academic goals. Laura Nelson reports on what happened when the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative pulled funding from the private, tuition-free school its philanthropists started back in 2016.
EXTRA CREDIT:
Chad Aldeman, “The Pandemic Changed Attendance Norms”
Alli Aldis, “Cell phone bans are here, and people are growing to like them”
Bob Behning, “Why Other States Should Take Notice of Indy’s Education Alliance”
Michael R. Bloomberg, “We Can’t Fix America’s Schools Without Data”
Daniel Buck and Cory Brewer, “Do Wisconsin Democrats Care About Improving Schools?”
Christy Hovanetz, “What Long-Term NAEP Scores Reveal About Reading, Math and School Accountability”
Keri Ingraham, “It’s Essential to Educate the Next Generation about Free Enterprise”
Robin Lake, “Should We Measure Human Connection in the Age of AI?”
Shaka Mitchell, “What Rotary Phones Can Teach Us About School Choice and the Future of Education”
Ian Rowe and Brad Wilcox, “The Hidden Factor in Student Success: Family Structure”
Jennifer Weber and Danyela Souza Egorov, “The School System Built for a City That No Longer Exists”
Natalie Wexler, “How to Make ‘Gifted’ Programs More Equitable”
Editor's note: This was first published on Mike Petrilli's Substack, SCHOOLED, a twice-weekly free Substack and email newsletter restarting the education-reform conversation.
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