The Republican Party’s education platform, released during this week’s convention, hasn’t changed much since 2012. (Politics K-12)
“Common Core is out. Second Amendment is in!” and other education policy comments Donald Trump has made. (Politics K-12)
His education promise on Thursday: to “rescue kids from failing schools.” (Hechinger Report)
Cleveland, where the Republicans convened, has struggling schools and an active plan to improve them. (Hechinger Report)
“Majority of our school is African-American, so you can only imagine how we’re going to feel about Donald Trump and how he feels about us,” said a student whose school blew up balloons for the event. (NPR)
One convention winner: teachers across the country, who got new fodder for lessons about plagiarism. (Curriculum Matters)
The country’s second-largest teachers union also held a convention this week. There, Hillary Clinton told teachers she’d support them. (Teacher Beat)
“Vice Principals,” a new HBO show about vengeful APs, is less about schools and more about race and rage. (Vox)
Income segregation across schools is up 40 percent over the last 25 years. (Inside School Research)
“Was there anything I could have done to make this awful year right?” Looking back on a year teaching in a Los Angeles school. (Medium)
One in five kids who score at “college-ready” levels on the ACT don’t go straight to college. (Joanne Jacobs)