After years of losses, the nonprofit ACT is moving the test into a for-profit corporation that will be majority owned by Nexus Capital Management. Story by Emma L. Whitford via Forbes. forbes.com/sites/emmawhit… #highered Encoura Savvas Learning

“We believe that we need to take a shock-and-awe approach to the rat problem by throwing everything we have at it.” Council Member Shaun Abreu via Emma G. Fitzsimmons The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/04/10/nyr… - ᴊᴏᴇ ʟʜᴏᴛᴀ - Mayor Eric Adams Kathy Nizzari Michael H. Parsons Jonah Goldberg

“In explaining its decision to accelerate the return to testing, Harvard University cited a study by Opportunity Insights, which found that test scores were a better predictor of academic success in college than high school grades…” Anemona Hartocollis and stephanie saul nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/… #AssessmentHQ

“The lack of access to corrective eyewear inhibits learning among young students... and forces millions of middle-age factory workers and farmers to leave the work force too early.” Andrew Jacobs via The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/04/04/hea… Harvard Ophthalmology

Hear, hear, Mike!

“For years, Rita Martinez would cry after meetings with the special ed staff at Berry Elementary about her son, Joel, who has dyslexia & autism… But this year, Martinez’s experience has completely flipped [under] Mike Miles’s NES.” houstonlanding.org/hisds-special-… #txed #HISD Houston Landing

Sage advice via Arthur Brooks: If your goal is virtue & happiness for your kids, keep these 3 things in mind:

1. Even a hot mess can be a good parent.
2. When you don’t know what to do, be warm & loving.
3. Be the person you want your kids to become.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

“As her family’s sole wage earner, Kathryn Vaughn felt she had little choice but to go back to work, where she sneaked glances midday of a video feed of her son at home with her husband.” Sara Randazzo via The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/us-news/educat… Cecilia Aguiar-Curry Jenna Hopkins

WATCH: “Every child deserves the chance to read and read well.” Maura Healey via Jon Keller WBZ | CBS News Boston cbsnews.com/boston/news/ma… #SoR #maedu #mapoli

“Educational choice has real benefits, but it’s not a bag of magic beans.” Frederick M. Hess and Mike McShane

“California is in deep trouble.” Phil Hill onedtech.philhillaa.com/p/visualizing-… #FAFSA #highered (h/t Jill Barshay)

“It is a sign that in an expensive city, the most important school amenity for some parents might not be a state-of-the-art science lab or a media studio, but affordable child care.” Troy Closson via The New York Times nytimes.com/2024/04/09/nyr… Brooklyn Charter

“I don’t want to go off on my five-thousandth version of this rant, but if you adopt the view that enforcing rules is per se bad, then it’s just not possible to have functioning public institutions.” Matthew Yglesias slowboring.com/p/smartphones-… Jonathan Haidt

Uncle Sam can and should play a larger role in helping to make workplace-based child care more available for employees and more attractive for employers. Story by Harriet Torry and Esther Fung via The Wall Street Journal
wsj.com/economy/jobs/c… Kathryn Anne Edwards Frederick M. Hess

“[Evaluation reform is] a window into how our schools truly operate and a great way to understand why we’ve stopped making academic progress in the last decade—and why recovery from COVID-era learning loss is going so poorly.” educationdaly.us/p/how-did-teac… Dan Weisberg Matthew Yglesias

“The Linda Brown Legacy Fund was established to honor and continue Linda’s extraordinary contributions to public education. The Fund will award annual grants to schools that embody her vision of excellence & urgency…” Boston Foundation tbf.org/donors/forms/l… Jim Peyser BES (build. excel. sustain)

“Over its 20-year history, IES has developed and perfected a standard ‘business model.’ I summarize it as: “Five years, five million dollars, failure,” which reflects our standard grant length, funding level, and outcome...” Mark Schneider via Frederick M. Hess edweek.org/policy-politic…

Louisiana Superintendents Could Soon be Graded on Student Math, English Scores via Allison Allsop Louisiana Illuminator The 74 the74million.org/article/louisi… #LaEd #lalege Dr John E Wyble, CAE Richard Nelson Joshua Carlson

“There is no world where we’re not better off exposing young people to science and natural phenomena. It’s how we get them engaged for the future.” Andrew Rotherham eduwonk.com/2024/04/let-ki… #STEM #Eclipse #Eclipse 2024

“Ultimately, the relative simplicity of automatic enrollment—and the ease with which other states could adopt this for their K-12 systems—catapulted Texas and North Carolina to a winning slam-dunk.” Collaborative for Student Success the74million.org/article/game-c… #txed #txlege #nced #ncleg #MarchMathness