Politico: DeVos’ Michigan schools experiment gets poor grades https://t.co/m4SP1HlxyH
KSAT: San Antonio students say goodbye to teacher facing immigration battle http://nzzl.us/KFUr51e
Snopes: Students Forced to Wear Hijabs for Event? http://snopes.comhttp://pllqt.it/QCMhRj
BuzzFeed: Failures By Obama Team Put Student Debt Forgiveness In Jeopardy https://t.co/1dRWQgA4ZG
PISA SCORES
NYT: World Ranking: What America Can Learn About Smart Schools in Other Countries https://t.co/5J6nmNC7vA
See also LA Times, Hechinger Report, Washington Post, AP.
THE BUSINESS OF EDUCATION
Reuters: How top U.S. colleges hooked up with controversial Chinese companies https://t.co/9N8TY3EauM
EdWeek: Alabama Admits Its High School Graduation Rate Was Inflated http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/high_school_and_beyond/2016/
NPR: Does Your State Provide Good Data On Your Schools? Probably Not https://t.co/2C5hcqcLfK
STATES, DISTRICTS & SCHOOLS
CT Mirror: When poverty permeates the classroom https://t.co/HWsIGejG6O
The 74: Once Largely Ignored, New Orleans Special Ed Students Find Meaning and Skills After High School https://t.co/IvMNR5UYwB
Christian Science Monitor: Turning Topeka schools around, at high speeds https://t.co/8EPXfji9Zx
ChalkbeatNY: New York City is among the hardest places to fire a low-performing teacher, report claims http://nzzl.us/c8mtDMG
New Yorker: An Immersive Play That Transports You to a Chicago Public High School https://t.co/Cs5DqXcJSO
FROM THE GRADE
How To ID funding sources & See Through Misleading Press Releases https://medium.com/@thegrade_/
November’s Best & Worst Education Journalism — Who Made The List? http://ow.ly/g0Ot306P0yI
Check Out the Christian Science Monitor’s New Solutions-Oriented Education Effort https://medium.com/@thegrade
KICKER
The Atlantic: Interview with a school lunch worker http://ow.ly/19bR306NIPi
Journal-Isms: For 3 Years, This Laid-Off Journalist Drove A School Bus http://pllqt.it/S718iu
PSA set in a high school produced for the Sandy Hook Promise urges viewers tolook past the surface (via AdAge)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alexander Russo
Alexander Russo is founder and editor of The Grade, an award-winning effort to help improve media coverage of education issues. He’s also a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship winner and a book author. You can reach him at @alexanderrusso.
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