ESSA
Education Plans Lack Clarity on Disadvantaged Students, Worst Schools | Education News | US News usnews.com/news/education…
Review of ESSA Plans Rates States Strong on Accountability, Weak on Counting All Kids the74million.org/article/exclus…
Smarter Balanced comes up short on interim exams cabinetreport.com/curriculum-ins…
How important will education policy be in Florida’s 2018 election cycle? tampabay.com/blogs/gradeboo… via @TB_Times
VOUCHERS
New studies find school voucher recipients in IN and LA first lose academic ground, later catch up to peers washingtonpost.com/local/educatio
Supreme Court Playground Ruling Feeds School Voucher Debate | Political News | US News usnews.com/news/politics/
Today in school vouchers: One Supreme Court case and two new studies you should know about chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017/…
Supreme Court playground ruling feeds school voucher debate abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireS…
MISC
Black and Latino parents cite funding disparities and racism as top contributors to educational inequity educationdive.com/news/9-out-of-…
Why Some Of D.C.’s Leading Men Of Color Are Heading Back To Preschool | WAMU wamu.org/story/17/06/26…
‘POV’ Looks at a Student Who Escapes Syria’s Strife for Los Angeles blogs.edweek.org/edweek/educati
How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms nytimes.com/2017/06/27/tec… [ See also Silicon Valley Billionaires Want to Replace Teachers with Technology http://ow.ly/4tr730cVwvh at Alternet]
Every Senior Applied To College At This Washington, D.C., High School npr.org/2017/06/26/534…
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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