EduClips: Questioning Graduation Rates in Chicago, Reading the Tea Leaves on DeVos — and More Must-Reads From America’s 10 Biggest School Districts
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Top Story
DEVOS — On social media this week, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos offered some clues about her policy priorities. She seized on America’s stagnant scores on a 4th grade international reading test to make her case that education in the U.S. needs an overhaul. But her reaction to what looked like good news about rising U.S. high school graduation rates was far more subdued. ()
National News
LATIN — 50 Years After Latin Disappeared from High School Classrooms, These Educators Are Bringing It Back (Read at The74Million.org)
TEACHERS — Is Teacher Recertification Broken? ()
District and State News
ILLINOIS — Analysis: Chicago Public School students fail annual tests, still graduate ()
TEXAS — Disability rights advocates call for Texas to halt education data mining contract ()
NEW YORK — To help students with disabilities transition to adulthood, New York City is opening new resource hubs in every borough ()
TEXAS — How experienced is your kid’s principal? New data gives you a peek ()
CALIFORNIA — California School Dashboard provides opportunity for schools “to turn data into action” ()
PENNSYLVANIA — Philly launches effort to expand K-12 computer science classes ()
ILLINOIS — Google’s charitable arm donates $1.5M to CPS, Chance the Rapper’s foundation ()
Think Pieces
CHARTERS — Eva Moscowitz, The Charter-School Crusader ()
STUDENT LOANS — Student Loan Debt Is Now As Big as the U.S. Junk Market ()
TECHNOLOGY — The Futile Resistance Against Classroom Tech ()
Quote of the Day
“The problem isn’t one article, however off-base it may be. The problem is the mindset of revanchists who peddle stories like these — professional anti-reformers who go nuts when approaches other than those they sanction and control deliver results for the students whom they insist cannot learn at high levels.” — Amy Wilkins, senior vice president of advocacy at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, on the Associated Press article on charter schools and racial isolation. (Read at The74Million.org)
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