- “Biden’s testing stance leaves states tough choices. Some may still try to avoid exams.” —Education Week
- The National Education Equity Lab is raising the aspirations of over a thousand high schoolers from disadvantaged backgrounds by connecting them to credit-granting Ivy League courses. —New York Times
- Prof. Richard Elmore of Harvard’s school of education will be sorely missed. His dynamic, provocative, and coherent teaching style blessed generations of students. —Rick Hess
- “Chicago schools wouldn’t have reopened without mayoral control. Other cities should take note.” —Washington Post
- How should we teach media literacy? By teaching people to guard their attention and not waste critical-thinking skills on fake news rabbit holes. —New York Times
- A growing rift between educated, white-collar workers and public-sector unions might shake up the Democratic Party’s coalition. —Washington Post
- What are teachers’ and parents’ views of reopening? The polls often disagree. —FiveThirtyEight
- How is the Democratic party “evolving” on education? —Eduwonk
- Denver schools’ superintendent, Susana Cordova, resigned last fall after spearheading reform efforts in the district. Will her policies outlast her time in office? —The74
- After pushback from the community and mayor, San Francisco’s school board pauses its controversial school-renaming discussion to focus on reopening. —San Francisco Chronicle
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