school accountability
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parental rights6 min read
A Third of Oregon's Kids Are Chronically Absent, So the State Wants to Repeal Compulsory Attendance
Oregon's own report recommends repealing the compulsory attendance statutes, renaming "unexcused" absences, and recasting attendance as a "performance growth indicator." When the scoreboard says a third of kids are missing, the managerial class does not get better. It unplugs the scoreboard.
gifted education7 min read
Killing Gifted Programs for Equity Punishes the Poor Kids It Claims to Protect
Seattle and New York are scrapping gifted programs in the name of equity. A Nobel laureate's new research shows those programs are the strongest ladder poor kids have, and the children who lose them were never the privileged ones.