#girldad x2 w/@klozadamorgan, Exec Director @CityForwardCol, always a Civics teacher, Obamillenial, cheesehead who knows what it means. INTJ/P, heavy on the I.
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Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
MPS Superintendent Cassellius says Milwaukee Public Schools spends $25,000,000 this year adding extra staff to underenrolled schools.
(The other options are closing buildings or cutting student education. MPS will decide in the next 6 weeks how many buildings they will close.)
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
"As DC’s example suggests, the most realistic way to desegregate our schools today might actually be to focus on improving their results first."
Really good stuff here from @JHWeissmann.
vox.com/policy/505269/washin…
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
Nikole Hannah Jones and others have long argued that in order to fix schools, we need to start by integrating them.
For Vox I wrote about how DC shows the opposite may be true: Fixing your schools can help integrate them. vox.com/policy/505269/washin…
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
Two numbers from Mike Miles’s testimony today that say a lot about what’s happening in #HISD:
7️⃣0️⃣% — Principals’ time expected to be spent coaching teachers.
9️⃣5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ — Teachers who can tell you the district’s expectation for high-quality instruction.
That’s what system coherence looks like.
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
People should realize the underlying NEA/AFT opposition to the federal scholarship tax credit isn’t just about being able to regulate or exclude competition. It’s about being able to regulate aspects of the economy they currently don’t control.
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
Charitable contributions are not public funds. They are private funds. If all charitable giving is suddenly public funds we have a real problem.
Told ya.
And this is why I said ‘no’ this boondoggle months ago. Public funds should go to public schools. Simple as that.
washingtonpost.com/education…
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
So many people criticized Nikole Hannah-Jones for choosing a "bad" school.
I wonder how many middle-class parents believe they chose a "good" that is actually mediocre.
citizen.substack.com/p/the-m…
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
Nikole Hannah-Jones recently published an essay in the New York Times reflecting on her decision to send her daughter to a high-poverty, segregated public school.
On a recent episode of Reasonably Optimistic, Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) asked Harvard professor Roland Fryer for his reaction to the article. Here is what he had to say.
🔗 Watch the full conversation here: wapo.st/4yiTGaR
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
It is simultaneously true that in most cities the low-income schools have higher per student spending and *also* that the schools in richer neighborhoods have better staffing and a wider range of classes and extracurriculars.
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
I have many thoughts on the Nikole Hannah-Jones story, especially having attended the kind of schools she sent her daughter to, but if we're looking for takeaways, here's a simple one. When an expert in education so thoroughly demonstrates a jarring and near complete lack of expertise in the act of getting an education for her own daughter, we should stop taking advice from her on curriculum, instruction, and all other fads disguised as wisdom she offers. That seems like the least we could do. Her daughter's personal struggle, which is indeed sympathetic, wasn't much of a teachable moment for her, as she doesn't seem to have updated any of her priors (and actually fudges funding facts, so as not to disrupt the narrative of under-resourced schools). But it should be a teachable moment for us, about the outsized influence of a scholar who claims to know better than anyone what her daughter would be up against in the school to which she chose to send her, but was inexplicably surprised and left her daughter completely unprepared for it.
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
Standardized tests, doubted and maligned, were the hero of the NHJ story. They tried to send a warning, but were ignored.
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
NHJ sets up a difficult choice between low-performing majority Black schools and high-performing majority White schools by pretending NYC’s high-performing charter sector doesn’t exist (the word “charter” never appears in the article)
Imagine how pissed off Nikole Hannah-Jones's daughter will be when she learns that there are majority black public schools in New York City where they assign homework, don't tolerate chaos, and where the kids all pass the state exams! @MoskowitzEva
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
Standardized tests protect children and their families from being misled by a bureaucracy more interested in moving kids through the system than ensuring they have learned anything.
How so many on the left were convinced the tests were the problem deserves more attention.
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
"We don't have an achievement gap; we have an opportunity gap."
What can public schools learn from successful private schools? Aug Prep's Abby Andrietsch and @cfc_mke's @colleston say it starts with believing in the limitless potential of every student.
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
As New Orleans marks 21 years since Hurricane Katrina, we’re reflecting on the storm’s lasting impact on the city and its schools.
Revisit our work commemorating the 20th anniversary and reflecting on two decades of change in New Orleans education: educationresearchalliancenol…
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
53% say they are very or somewhat satisfied with the job their local public schools are doing. Satisfaction hit a high of 81% in March 2013 and was between 60% and 69% from 2021 to February 2026. Satisfaction has declined steadily since then. #mulawpoll
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
A majority (58%) says that it is more important to reduce property taxes than to increase funding for K-12 schools (42%). Between 50% and 60% have said property taxes are more important in 11 Marquette Law School Poll surveys since June 2023. #mulawpoll
Colleston Morgan Jr retweeted
The opposition of White Democratic voters to something their Black and Brown counterparts support and participate in does somewhat smack of paternalism with a not-zero chance of political risk
