WHAT WE’RE READING
University of Miami’s Bruce Baker updated his list of America’s most financially disadvantaged (a.k.a. “still screwed”) school districts, each one serving “far needier children than the districts around it, with less money.”
EXTRA CREDIT:
The overwhelming response to the Nikole Hannah-Jones article continues, with another 37 articles published this week, for a grand total of 82 (so far). We’ve put them all in one place (here) for your reading pleasure. Among the latest entries are great takes by John Arnold, Derrell Bradford, Danyela Souza Egorov, Jill Filipovic, Maud Maron, Elizabeth Grace Matthew, Robert Pondiscio, Ian Rowe, Inez Feltscher Stepman, and Steven Wilson.
Other edu-opinions worth your attention:
Chad Aldeman, “I Used to Think Private Schools Shouldn’t Exist”
Neetu Arnold, “Why Is New York Dumping Its High School Exit Exam?”
Charlie Barone, “AI No Get Enemy”
Paul W. Bennett, “AI in the Classroom: Why Has the Light Turned to Amber?”
Aaron Churchill, “How Ohio’s brand-new advanced math policy will work”
Joe Cruz, “I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.”
Emily Freitag, “Bans aren’t the answer”
Michael Horn and Thomas Arnett, “Could Alpha School disrupt K–12 education?”
Kevin Huffman, “U.S. test scores keep falling. But these states are getting it right.”
Richard Kahlenberg, “How the Culture War Put Public Schools at Risk”
Michael Kirst, “California needs a stronger state role in education—without abandoning local control”
Bruno Manno, “So Many Credentials, So Little Value—What States Can Learn From Ohio’s Reboot”
Alexander Russo, “My misguided six-year foray into ‘social justice journalism’ (2016-2022)”
Larry Sand, “AI in Our Schools—Its Use and Abuse”
Timothy Shanahan, “Why Congress’s Latest Foray Into the Reading Wars Is Too Sloppy to Work”
John Stossel, “The war on gifted education is hurting poor kids”
Matthew Yglesias, “Math needs a phonics-style reckoning”
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