Weekend Education Reads: 16 Important Stories on Schools, Students, Policy You May Have Missed This Week
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Here are a few other interesting articles we’ve been reading at other outlets this week, that you might have missed amid the breaking headlines:
State Department: Alabama Graduation Rates Inaccurate — Times Daily (Lisa Singleton-Rickman)
Judge: Mostly White Southern City May Secede From School District Despite Racial Motive — The Washington Post (Emma Brown)
Michelle Rhee & the Capital of Education Reform — U.S. News & World Report (Sara Mead)
Kansas City’s Latest Attempt at School Reform: Small Enough to Manage, Big Enough to Matter — Education Post (Peter Cunningham)
Climate Denial in Schools — Vice (Emmalina Glinskis)
New Database Shows L.A. Schools Not Receiving $1.5 Billion Intended for Students — LA School Report (Sarah Favot)
Bill de Blasio’s Pre-Pre-K Fantasy — National Review (Kyle Smith)
In Texas, Thousands of Students Are Dropping Out as Early as Middle School — KERA News (Stella M. Chavez)
Lifting Kids to College — The New York Times (Frank Bruni)
The Privilege of School Choice: When, Given the Chance, Will Wealthy Parents Ever Choose to Desegregate Schools? — The Atlantic (Patrick Wall)
The Asian Money Fueling U.S. Edtech Investments — EdSurge (Tony Wan)
States Reconsider Sunscreen as Banned Drug in Schools — Education Week (Lisa Stark)
Florida Senate Committee Spends All of 9 Minutes Considering Major Change in Schools Policy — The Miami Herald (Kristen M. Clark)
Sheryl Sandberg: How to Build Resilient Kids, Even After a Loss — New York Times (Sheryl Sandberg)
Everyone Hates How Colorado Funds Its Schools. So Who Is Going to Fix It? — Chalkbeat (Nicholas Garcia)
Did Your Father Die? For a Second-Grader, Gunfire, School Lockdowns, Then the Worst Violence of All — The Washington Post (John Woodrow Cox)
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