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  • Friday News Roundup

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    It’s the Friday before July 4th. Time for the News Roundup and then some vacation. Here we go. Analysis: Many Districts Doing Less This Summer to Make Up for Lost Learning (The 74) According to a recent article in The 74, “Despite national attention on bolstering summer school options for students who lost learning time…

  • Whose Learning Is It Anyway?

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    I recently came across a report submitted to Congress by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) titled “As Students Struggled to Learn, Teachers Reported Few Strategies as Particularly Helpful to Mitigate Learning Loss.” The report was published by the GAO last May. The GAO found that “During the 2020-21 school year, students in all grade levels,…

  • Catching Up Our Kids

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    A group of American Enterprise Institutute’s researchers recently released the Return to Learn Tracker, a way for traditional districts to estimate the level of student learning loss in their schools. According to The 74, “Back when districts wrote their ESSER plans (the federal government’s COVID relief initiative,) most didn’t have the information we have today.…

  • Education Reimagined & The Big Idea

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    I noticed Education Reimagined, a Washington D.C.-based group committed to a different learning system for our young people, released a new resource titled The Big Idea. According to ER, “The Big Idea is designed to spark new conversations and inspire people to imagine a world of thriving learner-centered ecosystems. We are eager to grow the…

  • School Principals Need to Go

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    I enjoyed being a school principal. I was a middle school principal and opened a brand new high school as their first principal. I enjoyed playing the role of the school’s instructional leader, even though many of my counterparts delegated teaching and learning to others. But maybe it’s time to close the school principal position,…

  • Friday News Roundup

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    It’s Friday! Time for the Roundup. Let’s get to it. ‘The World Feels Less Stable’: Educators’ Sense of School Safety Right Now (EducationWeek) “Four in 10 educators feel less safe in their schools now than they did five years ago, according to a new survey by the EdWeek Research Center. School shootings factor heavily into…

  • The Tattle Phone

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    I’m a big fan of Ira Glass and This American Life. It is one of the best radio shows/podcasts available these days. If you haven’t listened, I encourage you to do so. A few weeks ago, the show focused on fairness. I’ll spare you the details of the entire program. What I want to focus…

  • When Did 70% Become Acceptable?

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    When I worked in public education, it was amazing to me how much all of us fell in love with the “70.” Under the Texas accountability at the time, if you got 70 percent of you kids to pass the state’s high-stakes test in either reading, writing, or math, you were considered a “recognized” campus.…

  • The Unfair Practice Called Grading

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    High school graduation season, for the most part, has come and gone. Graduates are getting ready to prepare for college or possibly the work force. Seniors have been recognized for their academic achievement by being named cum laude, magna cum laude, or summa cum laude. Valedictorians and salutatorians have given their speeches congratulating their fellow…

  • Math, Science, and Social Studies are All About Problem-Solving

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    Here’s a Best of the Best article originally published for The Education Game back in 2021. What happens to the world if COVID-19 doesn’t disappear for the next 50 years? How does the human race survive climate change? What happens to America and the world if more governments become less democratic and more become autocratic?…