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What we're reading this week: September 16, 2021

The Education Gadfly
9.16.2021
  • Boston’s next mayor will have to rise to the challenge of revitalizing the once-exemplary school district after years of declining performance. —The 74
  • “A recent viral news story reported that a generation of young men is abandoning college. The pattern has deep roots.” —The Atlantic
  • Daniel Idfresne, a seventeen-year-old from an immigrant family, believes that his parents’ values, and his time in effective charter and selective-admission schools that shared them, immunized him from woke groupthink. —Common Sense with Bari Weiss
  • “How 9/11 helped pass No Child Left Behind—and fueled its eventual demise.” —The 74
  • The data finds that it’s not White, wealthy students who benefit most from SAT test prep, but students who are lower-income, Black, and first- or second-generation East Asian immigrants. —New York Times
  • “Ed policy is often based on public perception. But how much do people really know?” — Mike Antonucci
  • In Chicago’s LEARN Charter Schools, kindergarten teachers are prioritizing calming classroom techniques, oral repetition, and visual cues to help students regain their ability to focus and get along with peers. —Chalkbeat Chicago
  • “Racial justice through expanded choice.” —Derrell Bradford
Tags: Boston Chicago No Child Left Behind Act
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