How two schools are fighting the freefall

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Liz Willen Dear reader,

Digging right back in post holidays isn’t always easy, but we returned with newfound energy and gratitude, thanks to our loyal and supportive readers who helped us reach and even surpass a $50,000 match challenge offered by a generous individual. We are so grateful to all of you whose support acknowledges our important work and helps sustain it.

We also are jumping right back into covering the vast inequities that permeate U.S. education and the lingering impact of the pandemic on student performance, with a close up look at middle school math and how two schools ([link removed]) are fighting the freefall. In case you missed them over the holidays, we also published new stories on reading as a new civil rights issue, ([link removed]) looked at how Denmark ([link removed]) encourages assimilation of new immigrants in schools and peeked more closely at how climate change ([link removed]) is – and isn’t – being taught, among other topics. And today I weigh in on the sentencing of William "Rick" Singer
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You may have missed a range of provocative opinion ([link removed]) pieces as well, so please take a close look and, as always, let us know what you think and remind others to sign up ([link removed]) for our newsletters. A Happy New Year to all.

Liz Willen, Editor

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** Inside the new middle school math crisis ([link removed])
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While other grades recover, middle schoolers are still in freefall; two Virginia schools are bucking the trend

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** COLUMN: ‘I did all of it,’ acknowledges mastermind of breathtaking college admissions scandal ([link removed])
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This week’s guilty plea and sentencing should help usher in change. Don’t count on it



** Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights? ([link removed])
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Behavioral threat assessments are spreading, but advocates say they are used to remove students who pose no danger



** NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading ([link removed])
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Advocates say using the ‘science of reading’ to improve reading instruction is a step toward social justice for Black children



** In Denmark, who should do the work of integration? ([link removed])
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Fearing ‘parallel societies,’ authorities tell schools with high numbers of students from immigrant backgrounds to enroll more ethnic Danes, or risk shutdown



** PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach ([link removed])
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Large randomized test of arts education in Houston finds student behavior improves and test scores don’t suffer



** Coverage of climate change in college textbooks is headed in the wrong direction ([link removed])
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Study by North Carolina State University finds that most biology textbooks devote fewer sentences to climate change, and focus less on solutions, than they did before 2010



** OPINION: One way to solve the education crisis: Pay students to go to school ([link removed])
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For districts flush with federal funds, it could be the answer to pandemic learning loss

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