Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, postsecondary educational attainment, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, environmental issues, and Ethnic Studies at state and national levels. I am also covering COVID in my attempt to get the right information into the right hands.

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

How China Controlled the Coronavirus: Teaching and learning in Sichuan during the pandemic by Peter Hessler

This gripping story told by a New Yorker staff writer and teacher in China, Peter Hessler, is is quite illuminating in terms of how their r...

Professor who has predicted presidential winners since 1984 makes his Prediction

Hopefully, American University professor Allan Lichtman's prediction for the 2020 Presidential election will prevail. He has been a...

Monday, August 10, 2020

Charter schools and their management companies won at least $925 million in federal coronavirus funding, data shows

Important, if disgusting, article on how nonprofit and for-profit charter schools—more than 1,300—double-dipped, securing between $925 mi...

Stalinizing American Education by Lawrence Baines

I'm re-posting this 2011 piece as it has (or should have) implications for how we think about education in the U.S. today and how we a...

Sunday, August 09, 2020

Mexican Families Mourn Workers Claimed by Covid in the US—photo essay

Check out this photographic essay on the repatriation of Mexican migrant workers who died from COVID in the U.S. and whose bodies were flown...

We Can Reopen Schools if We Make the City the Classroom by Nikhil Goyal

Along with Dr. Christopher Emdin's "reality pedagogy" about which I just posted, I agree with Nikhil Goyal—a friend and coll...

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