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What we're reading this week: May 6, 2021

The Education Gadfly
5.6.2021
  • The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a First Amendment case about whether schools can police student’s off-campus speech. —EdNext
  • Howard Husock’s paper argues for breaking up urban school districts to improve management and loosen the hold teachers unions have on school boards. —AEI
  • Virginia seemed to backtrack on revisions to math education that may have eliminate advanced classes after it was accused of lowering the ceiling in the name of equity. —Washington Post
  • Despite Biden’s promises, unions influenced federal policies and blocked many students from returning to normal, in-person schooling. —WSJ
  • The surge of wokeness in the Democratic Party and its opposition to gifted and talented education in the name of equity is weakening its appeal to voters. —Ross Douthat
  • “Mall owners find charter schools make good tenants in many spaces left empty by departing big-box retailers.” —WSJ
  • Conservatives are fighting to prevent critical race theory from being taught in classrooms, believing it’s divisiveness disguised as equity. —Washington Post
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