Weekend Education Reads: 14 Important Stories on Schools, Students, and Policy You May Have Missed This Week
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Here are a few other interesting articles we’ve been reading this week, that you might have missed amid all the headlines:
The Atlantic: How Colleges Use Big Data to Target the Students They Want
USA Today’s Pulitzer Finalist: Broken Discipline Tracking Systems Let Teachers Flee Troubled Pasts
Education Post: Power, Policy and Prayer: My Eye-Opening Phone Call With Betsy DeVos
LA School Report: New District Data on Student Grades Show More Than Half of LAUSD’s 2016 Graduates Were Not Eligible for California’s Public Universities
Nashville Public Radio: Should High School Students Need a Foreign Language to Graduate?
The New York Times: New York’s Free-Tuition Program Will Help Traditional, but Not Typical, Students
Mr Rad’s Neighborhood: Last In, First Out
Center for American Progress: Hidden Money: The Outsized Role of Parent Contributions in School Finance
12 News Arizona: Democrat David Garcia to Announce Run for Arizona Governor
WHYY and NewsWorks.com: Changing Climate and Flattening Earth: Teaching Science in a ‘Fake News’ World
The Baltimore Sun: NTSB Finds ‘Deficiencies’ in Vetting of Baltimore School Bus Drivers
The Deseret News: Utah Schools Recruiting Teachers ‘Coast to Coast’ in Face of High Turnover, Retirements
The Hechinger Report: Idaho Gives Education Money Directly to Teenagers to Manage Themselves
….And here’s one pretty amazing new tool that you have to check out:
EdBuild: Funded — State Education Funding Policies for All 50 States
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