WHAT WE’RE READING
A new Brookings report finds high-poverty and predominantly non-white districts received higher public funding for most of the past half-century. “I definitely don’t want to put myself in the ‘money doesn’t matter’ (group), like we shouldn’t care about that at all,” lead researcher Sarah Reber told Amanda Geduld, yet “this idea that people have that obviously the reason that schools that serve poor students are struggling is that they have less money (is) not the case. For one thing they don’t—they have more money.”
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Also in the “like I’ve been saying…” category, Suchi Rudra considers how ambient AI can pick up on patterns that inform personalized learning in the classroom.
EXTRA CREDIT:
Chad Aldeman, “America’s Trillion-Dollar School System: 5 Trends Explain Where the Money Goes”
Charlie Barone, “True Crime and Project-Based Learning: Perfect Together?”
Rachel Canter, “How Mississippi Almost Abandoned Its Education Reforms”
Liz Cohen, “Screen Bans Can Be Education’s Dry January — Time for a Much-Needed Reset”
Anna J. Egalite, “Parental Choice Is Sending Public Schools a Message. Are They Listening?”
Jen Krajewski, Cynthia Lake, and Amanda Neitzel, “Advancing early literacy with a 1st-grade safety net”
Marty Lueken and Colyn Ritter, “Declining Enrollment Doesn’t Have to Mean Declining Schools”
Alexandra Walsh, “Walking away from education technology isn’t the answer to the latest backlash”
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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