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What we're reading this week: October 28, 2021

The Education Gadfly
10.28.2021
  • On March 2020, Massachusetts issued a scathing review of Boston’s public school system. With problems worsened by pandemic closures, can the district reform itself? —Boston Globe
  • Falling NAEP scores bolster the need for more evidence on student achievement. —Morgan Polikoff
  • New York City’s struggle to improve the equity and effectiveness of its gifted programs is a problem shared by districts across the country. —The 74
  • “It’s vital to understand who really runs public education, and it’s not parents.” —David French
  • Glenn Younkin, a candidate for governor of Virginia, ran an ad about a mother being upset that her son, a high school senior, was assigned an explicit book in his AP English class. Should she have the right to opt him out of reading it? —Hot Air
  • “Preschool enrollment has plunged: what that means for school readiness.” —Education Week
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