WHAT WE’RE READING
Savannah Peters looks at progress across the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education’s 183 schools, where high school graduation rates skyrocketed from about half to 79 percent in the past decade. The usual caveats apply: Soaring graduation rates should make us wonder about schools playing games via lower grading standards and credit recovery, plus this jump is at least partly due to changed data reporting procedures. Still, the article describes how local innovations are paying off in a system that doesn’t always get enough attention.
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“The Odyssey is not, strictly speaking, a children’s book. I thought my son might enjoy it anyway.” —Chris Moody, The Atlantic
EXTRA CREDIT:
Matt Barnum, “Test scores have plunged, but voters aren’t making schools a top political issue”
Thibaut Delloue, “How the Other Half Chooses: A New Era of Choice for the Charter Movement”
Kathleen Porter-Magee, “Religious liberty in education: Back to the Supreme Court”
Harry Patrinos, “Real Accountability Means Marrying Standards and Markets”
Jessica Poiner, “Cleveland is a national model for closing underenrolled schools”
Mickey Revenaugh, “Why Microschools Are Multiplying”
Mike Schmoker, “The learning recession might be caused by a teaching recession”
Tommy Schultz, “School Choice Succeeds in Arkansas”
Natalie Wexler, “How Schools Can Counter ‘The End of Reading’”
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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