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What we're reading this week: June 10, 2021

The Education Gadfly
6.10.2021
  • A defense of the Educating for American Democracy proposal —National Review
  • New data reveal a 432-hour in-person learning gap produced by “the politics of pandemic schooling.” —The 74 Million
  • “Chances grow that Supreme Court will take up Maine’s ban on religious school funding.” —Bangor Daily News
  • One of the nation’s leading school districts, Fairfax, Virginia, has been under fire from parents this year who resent the board’s resistance to reopening and some of its members’ woke positions. —Christian Science Monitor
  • History textbooks omit the Tulsa Race massacre and countless instances of organized violence against Black Americans. It’s time to teach those stories. —Tom Hanks
  • Despite Illinois’s efforts to create quality summer school programs and incentives to participate, districts are struggling to recruit teachers and students for them. —Chicago Tribune
  • This Brookings survey shows key reasons why some parents want to keep kids virtual in the fall, with thoughts on how schools can engage with them. —Brookings
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