Think Twice Weekly Report

February 20 - February 26, 2021

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.

Commonwealth Foundation

Feb. 26 | Report

Fiscal Health of School Districts in the Pandemic

CRPE

Feb. 25 | Report

Toward Understanding Unionization's Impacts on Charter School Students

EdNext

Feb. 24 | Report

A Descriptive Analysis of Cream Skimming and Pushout in Choice versus Traditional Public Schools

University of Arkansas

Feb. 24 | Report

Making it Count: The Productivity of Public Charter Schools in Seven U.S. Cities

Brookings Institution

Feb. 24 | Report

Addressing education inequality with a next generation of community schools: A blueprint for mayors, states, and the federal government

AEI

Feb. 26 | Commentary

Iowa's governor beat the teachers unions and reopened schools. Here's how she did it.

AEI

Feb. 26 | Commentary

New resource tracks school system reopening

Manhattan Institute

Feb. 26 | Podcast

Critical "Race" to the Bottom

New America

Feb. 26 | Commentary

Going Big for Little Kids: Why Kindergarten is Critical in the COVID-19 Recovery

Cato Institute

Feb. 25 | Commentary

COVID Is Killing The Private Schools for Everyman

EdChoice

Feb. 25 | Podcast

Ep. 240: Iowa Voter Poll With Trish Wilger

EdNext

Feb. 25 | Commentary

States Grapple with Standardized Testing during Pandemic

EdNext

Feb. 25 | Commentary

Supply is the Missing Variable in Selective School Equity Debates

EdNext

Feb. 25 | Commentary

What's It Take for Philanthropy to Help Rural Schools?

ExcelinEd

Feb. 25 | Commentary

NDIA & ExcelinEd - The Time is Now: Ensuring High-Speed Internet in Every Student's Home

Fordham Institute

Feb. 25 | Commentary

Is hybrid learning killing teaching?

Fordham Institute

Feb. 25 | Commentary

The Education Gadfly Show: Does Biden have the right tack on school reopenings?

Fordham Institute

Feb. 25 | Commentary

Power to the people? Part 2: History's lessons for "community control"

Fordham Institute

Feb. 25 | Commentary

Charter school growth increases resources in district-run schools

Fordham Institute

Feb. 25 | Commentary

Assessing the value of community college credentials

Fordham Institute

Feb. 25 | Commentary

What we're reading this week: February 25, 2021

Fordham Institute

Feb. 25 | Commentary

What happens to English learners' academic achievement when they're reclassified as English proficient?

Heartland Institute

Feb. 25 | Commentary

Research & Commentary: Opportunity Scholarships A Necessary, Timely Program For Tennessee Families

NCTQ

Feb. 25 | Commentary

The wind at our backs on diversifying the teaching profession

NCTQ

Feb. 25 | Commentary

Performance pay programs that pay off

NCTQ

Feb. 25 | Commentary

Making sustainable residencies THE standard

PPI

Feb. 25 | Webinar

Webinar: Schools That Excelled During The Pandemic - How And Why They Pivoted Effectively To Remote Learning

Heartland Institute

Feb. 25 | Commentary

Research & Commentary: Low-Income Illinois Families Desperately Need Education Savings Accounts

Brookings

Feb. 24 | Commentary

Planning for scale: The Education Scalability Checklist

Brookings

Feb. 24 | Commentary

Educators are key in protecting student mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic

Center of the American Experiment

Feb. 24 | Commentary

Biden claims he follows the science, but school guidance is rooted in fear instead

EdNext

Feb. 24 | Commentary

Evaluating Claims that Charter Schools Practice "Cream Skimming" and "Pushout"

ExcelinEd

Feb. 24 | Commentary

#AskExcelinEd: What is the state of Black education in America?

Fordham Institute

Feb. 24 | Commentary

Gadfly Bites 2/24/21 - Fire up the Scantron, y'all!

Manhattan Institute

Feb. 24 | Commentary

Buffalo Students Told 'All White People Play a Part in Perpetuating Systemic Racism'

New America

Feb. 24 | Commentary

There is no time to waste. We must accelerate new, quality models for career preparation.

AEI

Feb. 24 | Podcast

WTH is going on with school reopenings? Gov. Kim Reynolds on how she's getting Iowa's students back in school

AEI

Feb. 23 | Commentary

What's it take for philanthropy to help rural schools?

Cato Institute

Feb. 23 | Commentary

When the Going Gets Tough, Federal Testing Gets Lame

Cato Institute

Feb. 23 | Commentary

Teachers' Unions Make the Case for School Choice

Center of the American Experiment

Feb. 23 | Commentary

Enrollment Decline Puts Plans for New Rochester High School on Hold

CRPE

Feb. 23 | Commentary

To make up for lost learning time, set priorities

EdNext

Feb. 23 | Commentary

Ethnic Studies in California

EdNext

Feb. 23 | Podcast

EdNext Podcast: On State Standardized Testing, Flexibility Is Key

Fordham Institute

Feb. 23 | Commentary

Gen Z and Millennials are bullish on their futures and critical about today's schools

Fordham Institute

Feb. 23 | Podcast

The Education Gadfly Show: Does Biden have the right tack on school reopenings?

Fordham Institute

Feb. 23 | Commentary

Testimony presented before the House Primary and Secondary Education Committee on HB 67

George W. Bush Presidential Center

Feb. 23 | Interview

Schools as the Gateway into American Life

Heartland Institute

Feb. 23 | Commentary

Research & Commentary: Time Is Now For Education Freedom Accounts In New Mexico

Heartland Institute

Feb. 23 | Commentary

Equity = Inequality, Discrimination And Mediocrity

AEI

Feb. 22 | Commentary

K-12 education will never be the same after COVID-19

Brookings

Feb. 22 | Commentary

Understanding COVID-19-era enrollment drops among early-grade public school students

Center of the American Experiment

Feb. 22 | Commentary

MN public school enrollment drops by 17,000 students

EdNext

Feb. 22 | Interview

How Jeb Bush's ExcelinEd Is Tackling the Next 5 Years

EdNext

Feb. 22 | Podcast

The Education Exchange: At Relay Graduate School of Education, a Practice-Based Approach to Preparing Teachers

Fordham Institute

Feb. 22 | Commentary

State lawmakers take another crack at cancelling state tests

Mackinac Center

Feb. 22 | Commentary

Money for Nothing: Most Federal COVID Relief Went to Closed Classrooms

New America

Feb. 22 | Commentary

Lockdowns threaten child development - can parenting programmes help?

Reason Foundation

Feb. 22 | Commentary

How Should States Count Students to Calculate School Funding?

Sunlight Policy Center

Feb. 22 | Commentary

NJ Education Aid: The Data Show that NJ Has a Serious Outmigration Problem; NJ Policy Perspective Is Wrong to Assert Otherwise.

Heartland Institute

Feb. 21 | Commentary

The Leaflet: Georgia Testimony On Emergency Management, Hawaii Minimum Wage Hikes, ESA's, And DPC

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