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What we're reading this week: February 23, 2023

The Education Gadfly
2.23.2023
  • “In fast-growing Jersey City, charter schools seen as more friend than foe to traditional school district.” —NJ.com
  • One writer says that education savings accounts should be a means to create new and unique learning environments for students, not to raise student achievement. —Adam Peshek
  • In Ukraine, a middle school teacher traded books for a rifle in order to defend her city from a Russian invasion. —New York Times
  • A student enrollment decline in Denver was “years in the making.” It’s part of a national trend described by Tim Daly. —Denver Post
  • The curriculum of the AP African American Studies course rejected by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis relied too heavily on “protest and professional pessimism” and did not accurately represent Black history. —John McWhorter
  • In the K–12 culture wars, progressive activists “are far less invested in history that is true than that which they think feels true.” —Frederick Hess
  • An old ice factory in the Bronx has been transformed into a new charter school. —New York Times
  • California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes to directly fund his state’s poorest schools in order to target persistent racial disparities in student achievement. —EdSource
  • “The mask mandates did nothing. Will any lessons be learned?” —Bret Stephens
Tags: California Denver Frederick M. Hess Ron DeSantis Russia The Bronx Tim Daly
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