What we're reading this week: May 6, 2021
The Education GadflyThe U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week in a First Amendment case about whether schools can police student’s off-campus speech.
Developing students’ social and emotional skills may be more important now than ever
CAO CentralEditor’s note: The Thomas B. Fordham Institute recently launched “The Acceleration Imperative,” a crowd-sourced, evidence-based resource designed to aid instructional leaders’ efforts to address the enormous challenges faced by their students, families, teachers, and staff over the past year.
Don’t let them make you do it, Haley!
Chester E. Finn, Jr.You wouldn’t expect a conservative Republican like former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour to turn into a facsimile of Chairman Xi as muzzler of dissent and monitor of communications, but something of the sort has reared its head at the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB), which Barbour chairs. (He’s a DeVos appointee, and last I looked, those terms run a year at a time.