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This week we continue to highlight articles from The Best of The 74, with a bit of commentary added in. When I worked in schools, I always thought we referred too many kids to special education. To put it another way, why wouldn’t all kids receive the same personalized services when it came to their…

This week we continue to highlight The Best of The 74, with a bit of commentary added. Back in October, 74 reporter Chad Aldeman wrote that, “Objectively speaking, it’s a weird time to be talking about layoffs in schools. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2021 had the fewest layoffs in public education in…

It’s Friday! Here’s your News Roundup. Texas Superintendents Say Lack of School Safety Funding May Lead to Budget Cuts (The Texas Tribune) Legislative mandates. Ugh! The Texas Tribune reported this week that the Texas Legislature adjourned without approving increased funding for school safety even though that same legislature passed new safety mandates (after the tragic…

The 74 online just released their top 2023 articles. Over the next two weeks, eight of those articles will be presented here, with commentary added. In May of 2023 John Bailey, and advisor to the Walton Family Foundation, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a fellow at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, wrote an…

The 74 online just released their top 2023 articles. Over the next two weeks, eight of those articles will be presented here, with commentary added. In January of 2023, Tim Daly, CEO of EdNavigator, a nonprofit organization that helps hardworking families stay on track for success in school and beyond, wrote this about closing schools, “School…

The 74 online just released their top 2023 articles. Over the next two weeks, eight of those articles will be presented here, with commentary added. Back in July, David Steiner, the director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, a professor of education at Johns Hopkins University, and a member of the Maryland State…

It’s Friday. Here’s your News Roundup. After School Voucher Bill Falls Apart, Supporters and Opponents Get Ready for Future Fights (The Texas Tribune) According to The Texas Tribune online this week, “Many public educators and advocates saw the Texas House’s vote blocking school vouchers last month as a forceful rebuke that should signal there’s no…

Getting Smart, an education think tank led by Tom Vander Ark, recently released their first cohort of grantees from their Learning Innovation Fund. Not only are parents limited in their choices about where they send their children to learn, without the benefit of education savings accounts, new organizations committed to personalized learning, are also limited…

Confusion and struggle are good things when it comes to learning. Failure is not. This week, the Big Question Institute wrote this about confusion: “It’s crazy to think that we’re almost four years on from the outbreak of the Covid-19 virus.” “Do you remember the disruption of that moment? The chaos? The deep uncertainty and…