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What we're reading this week: February 11, 2021

The Education Gadfly
2.11.2021
  • “A year into the pandemic, thousands of students still can't get reliable WiFi for school.” —USA Today
  • In three states, legislators are introducing bills to ban the use of the controversial 1619 Project curriculum, which frames the nation’s history around the oppression of Black Americans. —EdWeek
  • Can the most powerful union president, Randi Weingarten, get teachers across the nation to return to schools in person? —New York Times
  • “Is Biden lowering the bar for what ‘reopening schools’ means?” —Education Week
  • Illinois’ policies have been driving people to other states for the last decade. Now, the state wants to mandate explicitly progressive viewpoints and activism in all public schools. —George F. Will
  • The pandemic has raised demand for more educational options. Perhaps the future will have a more pluralistic educational system in America. —The Atlantic
  • Families in Montclair New Jersey are fighting to demand in-person learning options, turning the mayor, a high-ranking teachers union officer, against parents and the superintendent. —NJ.com
  • The pandemic has brought an unprecedented drop in Catholic school enrollment—the largest single-year decline in five decades. —AP News
  • Stanford released a decade’s worth of data showing student test scores improving in California, on average, but revealing a widening gap between Black and White students’ scores. —EdSource
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Tags: California Illinois Joe Biden Randi Weingarten
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