WHAT WE’RE READING
The Supreme Court will hear a case on magnet school admissions after declining to take up two K–12 cases in the aftermath of Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard. Erica Meltzer has the details on the challenge from parents who argue that Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools changed its magnet admissions process to reduce the share of Asian American students.
EXTRA CREDIT:
Chad Aldeman, “Are American Schools Resegregating?” and “Where Does School Segregation Come From?”
John Arnold, “Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: Why Rising Graduation Rates May Not Be Good News”
John Bailey, “Anthropic and OpenAI should use their IPOs to invest directly in America’s kids”
Daniel Buck, “Can School Choice Make Special Education Work?”
Ellie Cash, “Democrats: Reject Vouchers, Embrace Family Agency in Public Education”
Shawn Phillip Cooper, “Students Need the Exceptional Teachers That Flexible Schools Can Hire”
Josh Cowen, “Scholarships for Public Schools”
Linda Diamond, “The Visionary We Were Taught to Reject: Why Siegfried Engelmann Still Matters”
Sharif El-Mekki and Jeanie Lee, “Male Teachers Say Mentors Got Them There. For Black Men, the Need’s Even Greater”
Michelle Goldberg, “Applying to High School in New York City Is a Soul-Destroying Nightmare”
Nat Malkus, “New Hope on Student Absenteeism”
Bruno V. Manno, “Career and Technical Ed Is Booming. Now Comes the Hard Part”
Cindy Marten and Steve Dackin, “Want to Build Better Pathways after High School? Look to the States.”
Neal McCluskey, “Beware the Return of Education Central Planning”
Harry A. Patrinos, “College Is Still the Best Investment Most People Will Ever Make”
Greg Richmond (interview with Education Next), “Leadership Is What Matters Most in a School”
Megan Schopp, “Why They Come Back”
McKenzie Snow and Angélica Infante-Green, “Improving U.S. History and Civics Education for Students Begins with the States”
Robert VerBruggen, “Why Does Education Reform (Almost) Always Fail?”
Jennifer Weber, “New York Schools Need to Stop Fixating on ‘Segregation’”
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