100% this. But I’m sure they’re going to ask me for $10 somewhere today.

Enough Already With the New Initiatives. Give Teachers a Break (Opinion) School leaders should not only ask if new approaches will aid learning but what teachers can stop doing to make room for the new task.

Enough Already With the New Initiatives. Give Teachers a Break www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

Government Jesus the privatization of charter schools ruins both religious education and public schooling

I really appreciated this piece from @komradechris.bsky.social on the St Isidore Catholic charter school situtation - incredible food for thought, especially for those of us in Catholic education and attentive to the distinct roles of spiritual formation and educating for the public good.

Republicans 2002:

“We need evidence-based education policy”

Republicans 2025:

“Pls destroy any evidence that could inform education policy”

OK Boomer: Generational differences in teacher quality We document that recent generations of elementary school teachers are significantly more effective at raising math test scores for students than those…

"recent generations of elementary teachers are significantly more effective at raising math test scores than those from earlier generations....improvements in teaching for Black students are larger than those for White students...driven by White teachers." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

America's kids are still behind in reading and math. These schools are defying the trend This story was produced by the Associated Press and reprinted with permission. Math is the subject sixth grader Harmoni Knight finds hardest, but that’s changing. This story also appeared in The Assoc...

More wins from Compton this week: Kendrick and Serena at the Super Bowl, and this great piece of reporting from @hechingerreport.org on Compton Unified's learning recovery work defying national trends: hechingerreport.org/americas-kid...

#192 There’s No Such Thing as a Kinesthetic Learner It’s common knowledge that every student has a learning style: visual, auditory or kinesthetic. But what if those classifications are not just inaccurate but dangerous? That’s the argument made by edu

In the new episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social, we take a (much needed) break from politics to delve into the incredibly persistant myth that every student has a 'learning style.' Our guest, education historian Tom Fallace, says that's not just wrong but dangerous soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...

New data brief from our team at the Roche Center: we examine Catholic school achievement trends in NAEP (beyond broad cross-sector comparisons) and find widening achievement gaps and other insights into special populations within Catholic schools.

www.canva.com/design/DAGdv...

From the DataHoarder community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the DataHoarder community

Awesome project by a Redditor to mirror FTP and HTTP servers of the US Federal Government. Full archives of the CDC and Census servers completed, many more (NIH, EPA) in progress.

www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarde...

There’s also not enough participation to disaggregate Catholic school NAEP scores by state, which would be a slightly better but still imperfect way to examine sector differences.

Not at all! I'm adding in the supplemental docs to the folders as well (survey forms, user manuals, etc). I'll re-ZIP them and then see if I can get it uploaded somewhere a bit more permanent (Github or Archive.org)

This *should* be a complete archive of the data files from 2000- from the CRDC website: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Working on it. Just need to find a place to host the files for public access...

It also looks like SES data is coded a little bit differently this time around and there isn’t enough data for Catholic schools to disaggregate by this. Bummer.

Finally able to pull the data for Catholic schools - movement seems to mirror public schools in Reading (continuing overall decline since pandemic), flat in 4th grade Math, and a bounce back in 8th grade Math to pre-pandemic levels.

Is the NAEP data hosted on the same infrastructure as the Medicaid portal? It's been stuck like this for a few minutes already for me.

2023 Election Results Throw Doubt on Lasting Sway of School Culture War Issues From Virginia to Ohio to Pennsylvania, voters appeared to reject hard-right agenda embraced by parental rights movement.

"The outcome of Tuesday's races raise questions about the political viability of other Youngkin mandates, such as adopting state policies seen as hostile to LGBTQ students and giving parents far greater control over classroom materials."

"'If we're allowed to continue operating as we do now, we wouldn't just accept every kid anyway,' Goudeau said."

Yikes.

Bishops walking out, 'tiresome' listening: Inside tensions at the synod View from the Vatican: It was less than two weeks into the synod on synodality when  multiple reports emerged about participating delegates storming out of the room. Tensions, it seems, are part of t...

Fascinating report coming out of the Catholic church's synod:

"Throughout the month, both bishops and lay members have attested that it's very often the laity who are better versed in the practice of synodality"

www.ncronline.org/vatican/view...

Assessing Transitional Kindergarten’s Impact on Elementary School Trajectories California’s Transitional Kindergarten (TK) program provides an early year of schooling within the K–12 system. Launched a decade ago with limited eligibility, TK will soon be open to all four-yea...

From PPIC: TK programs in CA found to improve EL identification, limited SEL outcomes, equivalent test score outcomes through 3rd/4th grade. Really fascinating given the cost-effectiveness of starting up TK programs in non-public/Catholic schools in CA compared to pre-K/PS.

This is more like it. Thanks @mpolikoff.bsky.social!