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What we're reading this week: May 26, 2022

The Education Gadfly
5.26.2022
  • “Paul Vallas: [Chicago Public Schools] has failed the city’s youths, and violence has resulted. There is a way forward.” —Chicago Tribune
  • Dallas’s public school district has banned suspensions in favor of “reset centers” that provide academic and behavioral supports. —Dallas News
  • After years of criticism that her methods are ineffective, literacy guru Lucy Calkins made major revisions to better align her curriculum to the science of reading. —New York Times
  • “Educators need a plan ambitious enough to remedy enormous learning losses.” —Tom Kane in the Atlantic
  • Florida’s politicized review process for math textbooks creates concerns about future struggles over science and social studies textbooks. —Tampa Bay Times
  • New York City schools swapped its gifted test for teacher recommendations to improve diversity in identification. But there’s no evidence that it will work. —New York Times
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