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Think Twice Weekly Report
October 7 - October 13, 2017
The Think Twice Weekly Report is a compilation of education-related articles and reports posted each week by the think tanks monitored as part of the Think Twice think tank review project funded by the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice.

Think Tank Title Type Release Date
Ed Next About That ‘White Supremacist’ Bedsheet Which Greeted Betsy DeVos’ Speech at Harvard Commentary 10/13/2017
Mackinac Center Don’t Push the School Funding Panic Button Commentary 10/13/2017
New America Foundation ‘We Knew We Had to Grow Our Own’ Commentary 10/13/2017
Bellwether Bayou Blues: How Louisiana’s Retirement Plan Hurts Teachers and Schools Report 10/12/2017
CRPE Brokering the Grand Bargain Commentary 10/12/2017
Ed Next Has Eva Moskowitz Gone Too Far on Parent Accountability? Commentary 10/12/2017
New America Foundation A Survey of Programs Using Digital-Age Approaches to Family Engagement & Early Learning Commentary 10/12/2017
New America Foundation Keeping Score: The Changing Demographics of Federal Aid Recipients Commentary 10/12/2017
Show-Me Institute School Choice For Me, But Not For Thee: Part 4 Commentary 10/12/2017
Heartland Institute High-stakes Teacher Evaluations Benefit DC Students, Study Shows Commentary 10/12/2017
AEI Education philanthropists should walk the walk on accountability Commentary 10/11/2017
AEI Educate parents about school choice Commentary 10/11/2017
Ed Next Education Philanthropists Should Walk the Walk on Accountability Commentary 10/11/2017
Fordham Institute The charter-schools movement needs to stop alienating Republicans Commentary 10/11/2017
Fordham Institute The Education Gadfly Weekly Weekly digest 10/11/2017
Heartland Institute Press Release: Heartland Institute Experts Reacts To State University Of New York Charter Committee Allowing Some Charter Schools To Certify Their Own Teachers Commentary 10/11/2017
New America Foundation The Promise of OER: More Equitable Education For All Commentary 10/11/2017
Show-Me Institute Minnesota Is Embracing School Choice—Missouri Should, Too Commentary 10/11/2017
WILL WILL Press Release | WILL Study Finds Unintended Consequences Of Obama Era Suspension Policies Commentary 10/11/2017
AEI Classes of kindergarteners Commentary 10/10/2017
Bellwether Looking at Leadership to Combat Teacher Turnover and Sustain School Improvement Commentary 10/10/2017
Brookings Institution The costs of misusing test-based accountability in schools Commentary 10/10/2017
Center of the American Experiment Kersten responds to Star Tribune Counterpoints re: Edina School District’s racial identity policies Commentary 10/10/2017
CRPE Reframing the District-Charter Narrative Commentary 10/10/2017
CRPE A User’s Guide to the Four-Day School Week: How to Assess District Readiness and Evaluate the Results Report 10/10/2017
Ed Choice Teacher-Turned-Researcher Sivan Tuchman Discusses the Disability Rights Community’s Skepticism with School Choice Podcast 10/10/2017
Ed Next What We Know About Career and Technical Education in High School Commentary 10/10/2017
Heartland Institute Maine Homeschooling Grew By 35 Percent In Ten Years Commentary 10/10/2017
Show-Me Institute School Choice For Me, But Not For Thee: Part 3 Commentary 10/10/2017
Center of the American Experiment Watch the Presentation that Kicked Off the Edina School Controversy Video 10/9/2017
Center of the American Experiment Racial identity policies are ruining Edina’s fabled schools Commentary 10/9/2017
Fordham Institute Ohio Education Gadfly Biweekly Biweekly digest 10/9/2017
Show-Me Institute School Choice For Me, But Not For Thee: Part 2 Commentary 10/9/2017
Heartland Institute Texas District Institutes No-Homework ‘Family Nights’ Commentary 10/8/2017

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