Jen Jennings, PhD
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Professor @PrincetonSPIA & Sociology; Director, Education Research Section. Once & future eduwonkette
Joined March 2020
📢New Working Paper📢 @Princeton doctoral student @jasonfontana & I provide new causal evidence that ESA implementation led IA private schools to increase tuition. When eligibility was universal (K), private schs increased prices 21-25%, compared w 10-16% in grades w partial elig
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Here is their article, which blames Chicago teachers while folding in that area districts have seen similar upticks in teacher absences. https://t.co/X7nMQIkPSE
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Chicago Tribune's "teachers breaking bad" take got me curious: what do BLS data say abt education absences? Pre-pandemic, rates were similar to other fields 2020, they dipped (WFH effect) Now they're higher than other fields-unsurprising given rolling infection w-out mitigation
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Time is zero-sum. When TX adds Bible content to its curriculum, it is going to supplant, not supplement, other content. The most remarkable example I've identified is MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Class materials⬇️ 1/ https://t.co/VI8K8ZIfjd...
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I'm going to ask students to compare the included and excluded components as an exercise. If you find it useful, here are slides and the document comparison. /end https://t.co/i9OGd4oYyy...
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The curriculum materials launch into 6 pages of Bible content, all w/in the "Juneteenth & Beyond" 5th gr unit Reasonable people disagree about points of emphasis, but the relative coverage of Bible to racial justice sends a strong message to kids abt what matters most 6/
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Curiously, this passage that references Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego, and Nebuchadnezzar stays in. 5/
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Letter's most searing passages are fully omitted. 4/
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So what did this excerpt cut out? The blue underlined text is what is excluded. [Find full comparison doc at the end.] 3/
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This is the radically sanitized excerpt that 5th graders are given to read. That MLK is writing to White Clergyman - and questioning their role in perpetuating injustice - is excised. The word "Negro" is also removed. 2/
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Time is zero-sum. When TX adds Bible content to its curriculum, it is going to supplant, not supplement, other content. The most remarkable example I've identified is MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Class materials⬇️ 1/ https://t.co/VI8K8ZIfjd...
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What whitewashing our history looks like…
Texas Kindergarteners will be taught that "over 150 years ago some people in our country were enslaved" "Africa is one place from which people were brought as slaves" "when the country was founded, slavery still existed in most countries in the world"
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A horse is a horse, of course, of course, unless that horse is taking public dollars away from public schools and redirecting them to private institution to enrich some horse’s
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Spicy take on TJ via the TX kindergarten curriculum unit on "Our Great Country" "Whenever he was not sure about what to do, Jefferson read the words he himself had written. They always helped him make good decisions, and they are still helping us today."
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Texas Kindergarteners will be taught that "over 150 years ago some people in our country were enslaved" "Africa is one place from which people were brought as slaves" "when the country was founded, slavery still existed in most countries in the world"
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Whoever designed Texas’ new kindergarten unit on Kings & Queens knew exactly what they were doing
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Every time someone utters "I'll shut down the Department of Education," a 28th Amendment angel gets its wings.
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America enjoyed a prosperous & healthier 20th century because of compulsory education. Bringing back child labor? Not “America’s best ideals.”
"Public Education: Better If You Don't Have to Do It?" @DonnellySpeaks's new report for CERN's Sketching a New Conservative Education Agenda considers freeing families from compulsory attendance laws and unleashing the power of the market.
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“when taxpayer $ are involved, [“accountability to parents”] can’t be the only answer. The reason we pitch in to pay for public ed is that all of us benefit when all…are well-schooled & can access the knowledge needed to make their way successfully through life”
Some tout ESAs as a new frontier where parents can handcraft their children's education à la carte. But there’s a big hitch, say @MichaelPetrilli and Devon Nir: It's impossible to tie à la carte services to whether kids are actually learning anything.
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