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What we're reading this week: August 11, 2022

The Education Gadfly
8.11.2022
  • School choice is a contentious issue in Texas’s gubernatorial race between Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke. —The Texas Tribune
  • Parent protests over school budget cuts have pressured Mayor Eric Adams to take the unusual step of renegotiating NYC’s education budget with the City Council. —Chalkbeat New York
  • Reports on the “exodus” of teachers leaving the profession are likely overblown. —The Hechinger Report
  • Could new classroom technology help American students break out of a decades-long reading crisis? —Wall Street Journal
  • A new meta-study of K–12 test scores finds that student achievement has risen while racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic gaps have narrowed in the last fifty years.  —M. Danish Shakeel and Paul E. Peterson
Tags: Eric Adams New York Paul E. Peterson Texas
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