Chicago officials have ignored a plan to integrate two nearby schools even though the school leaders offered support. (WBEZ)
The head of the KIPP Foundation embraced the Black Lives Matter movement in a recent speech. (KIPP)
Organizations connected to Black Lives Matter put forth education ideas that include ending Teach for America and more local control of school districts.
On one list of Hillary Clinton’s potential education secretaries: Denver schools chief Tom Boasberg and John King, the current one. (Washington Examiner)
Author Ansley Erickson hopes the story of how Nashville schools have resegregated offers lessons for other districts. (Chalkbeat)
Not much has changed: 25 years ago, Ed Week’s cover story on Teach for America was headlined, “Salvation or ‘Disservice’?” (Teacher Beat)
Forty-six years ago, racial bias helped turn Indianapolis into one city with 11 school districts. (Chalkbeat)
Districts with strong teachers unions fire more teachers, according to a new study whose author explains why. (NBER/Edushyster)
As New York City’s schools have gotten better, schools upstate have gotten worse as their cities have declined. (Hechinger Report)
In Rochester, N.Y., just 17 black third-grade boys passed the state English exam. (Dropout Nation)
Arizona is making impressive gains in math, according to this analysis. (Jay P. Greene)
One teacher whose students’ test scores jumped up says she doesn’t care. Here’s why. (Pedagogy of the Oppressed)
