- Most public school students in the U.S. now come from low-income families. (Washington Post)
- American education may not be experiencing the dramatic crisis we’ve grown so used to hearing about—and black and Latino students, in particular, are doing better over time. (FiveThirtyEight)
- Public school teachers write about testing, joy, and gray hairs in an essay series on Gawker. (Gawker)
- Teachers are more likely to injure their voices than any other professionals—but most don’t know how to tend to their voices. (Chalkbeat Tennessee)
- Is a clash in “blue collar” and “white collar” values behind some of the current pushback to education reform? (CRPE)
- The GED just got way harder. (KUNC)
- Bilingual preschool programs are becoming more popular in New York. (Chalkbeat NY)
- Could the idea of the mad—male—genius hold back women in the classroom? (KUNC)
- Children’s innate sense of how numbers work doesn’t necessarily line up with how math is taught in schools. (Radiolab)
- Annual assessments and the federal role in education are all on the table as Congress dives into the the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. (Education Week)
- An educational consultant argues that differentiation works better in theory than in practice. (Education Week)
- How toxic stress can take a toll on student learning. (Latino USA)
- “Engaging multiple modalities.” “Measures of student growth.” Why is education reporting is so boring? Let’s talk about jargon. (The Atlantic)
- More and more is being expected academically of Kindergartens. (Education Week)
- And, a weekend listen: Education reporters discuss some of the top issues for 2015. (Bloomberg EDU)
