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 www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

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”

"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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

"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.

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...

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!