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By | December 11, 2015, 9:00pm UTC - The Every Student Succeeds Act, the NCLB replacement that became law this week, keeps testing but loses accountability, basically. Politics K-12
- The new law represents a repudiation of outgoing U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s approach. FiveThirtyEight
- But it’s not at all clear how much it will actually change life for individual students and teachers. The Atlantic
- How ESSA is like a “Game of Thrones” plot point about the randomness of destiny Andy Rotherham
- The Common Core takes another blow this week when New York’s governor recommends revising the standards there. Chalkbeat
- New York City’s teachers union president lists three “school ‘reform’ myths,” starting with the idea that merit pay works. Education Week
- American students aren’t tested a lot, at least compared to their counterparts in lots of other countries. The Hechinger Report
- Twins whose teachers have very different philosophies show their mother the value and danger of homework. Motherlode
- A growing number of Teach For America teachers are second-generation — they were taught by TFA teachers themselves. The 74 Million
- Schools with many poor students don’t just have inexperienced teachers — many have temporary teachers. The Washington Post
- An English teacher is polling her colleagues about how they include fiction in the age of Common Core. On the Shoulders of Giants
- A science teacher shares her journey from teaching about rocks to getting her middle schoolers to code. Chalkbeat
- The success of coding curriculums depends on their implementation, as two Arizona districts illustrate. Education Week
- A Chicago school founded with a gaming focus is changing approaches to avoid closure. Catalyst
- Can people without kids have “skin in the game” of education policy? Here’s an argument for yes. Grand Rounds
- Get to know a Colorado school that has no graduation gap among students of different ethnicities. Chalkbeat