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What we're reading this week: June 17, 2021

The Education Gadfly
6.17.2021
  • “Why ed-tech startups Clever and Nearpod are expected to sell for a combined $1 billion.” —EdWeek
  • A man from Angelus, Kansas, a dwindling town, ruffled feathers by turning a beloved old schoolhouse into a barn. —WSJ
  • David French argues that the critical race theory debate is setting up a collision between the conservative legal movement and the New Right. —The Dispatch
  • Black families that have felt underserved by traditional schools are increasingly turning to homeschooling postpandemic. —New Yorker
  • Catherine Lhamon, who headed the Obama Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights, may spark new feuds with her push to address racial disparities in school discipline outcomes by restoring policies Trump repealed. —The 74
  • “How American K-12 education has become a cultural contradiction.” —George Will
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Tags: Donald Trump Kansas Office for Civil Rights
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