Think Twice Weekly Report

January 16 - January 22, 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.

WILL

Jan. 21 | Report

Public School Choice in Wisconsin: A Work in Progress

Reason Foundation

Jan. 21 | Report

A Vision For Better School Funding in Arkansas

Brookings

Jan. 19 | Report

How England implemented its computer science education program

Urban Institute

Jan. 19 | Report

How COVID-19-Induced Changes to K-12 Enrollment and Poverty Might Affect School Funding

New America

Jan. 19 | Report

Bridging Digital Equity and Culturally Responsive Education in PreK-12

CRPE

Jan. 21 | Report

How Is School Enrollment in Washington State Shifting during COVID-19?

Bellwether

Jan. 21 | Commentary

More Detente

Bellwether

Jan. 21 | Commentary

Combating Misinformation

CRPE

Jan. 21 | Commentary

Don't force square-peg students back into wrong-shaped holes

EdNext

Jan. 21 | Commentary

Eight Recommendations for the Biden Administration

ExcelinEd

Jan. 21 | Commentary

New Hampshire Launches First-in-the-Nation Free Online Tutoring Through Schoolhouse.world

Fordham Institute

Jan. 21 | Commentary

One option for giving children their pandemic year back: Add an extra year to elementary school, forever

Fordham Institute

Jan. 21 | Commentary

What the Capitol riot means for civics education

Fordham Institute

Jan. 21 | Commentary

How gifted students improve the outcomes of their classmates, regardless of their ability levels

Fordham Institute

Jan. 21 | Podcast

The Education Gadfly Show: The education issues facing state legislatures in 2021

Fordham Institute

Jan. 21 | Commentary

What we're reading this week: January 21, 2021

Reason Foundation

Jan. 21 | Commentary

How to Improve Special Education Funding in Arkansas

TNTP

Jan. 21 | Commentary

How You Can Help Close the Teacher Prep Diversity Gap

EdNext

Jan. 21 | Survey

Pandemic Parent Survey Finds Perverse Pattern: Students Are More Likely to Be Attending School in Person where Covid Is Spreading More Rapidly

Fordham Institute

Jan. 20 | Commentary

The pandemic dims a beacon of school improvement

Mackinac Center

Jan. 20 | Commentary

Closing Classrooms May Cost School Districts Thousands of Students for Years to Come

Show-Me Institute

Jan. 20 | Infographic

New Poll Shows Missouri's Educational System in Crisis

University of Arkansas

Jan. 20 | Commentary

ABC Pre-K Students Outperform Peers

Cato Institute

Jan. 19 | Commentary

Did Public Schooling Fail Us?

Center of the American Experiment

Jan. 19 | Commentary

Elementary students return to their classrooms

ConnCAN

Jan. 19 | Commentary

2021 policy goals - a focus on education equity

EdNext

Jan. 19 | Commentary

A National Tutoring System? Not So Fast.

Fordham Institute

Jan. 19 | Commentary

Changing the currency of the job market: Moving up through skills rather than degrees

Heartland Institute

Jan. 19 | Commentary

The No Education Association

Hoover Institute

Jan. 19 | Commentary

The Coronavirus Scar

Hoover Institute

Jan. 19 | Commentary

Charter Schools Rising

Hoover Institute

Jan. 19 | Commentary

When Ending School Screening Backfires

Mackinac Center

Jan. 19 | Commentary

Gov. Whitmer's Switcheroo on Schools

Mackinac Center

Jan. 19 | Commentary

Take Federal Education Funds into Account

Manhattan Institute

Jan. 19 | Commentary

When Ending School Screening Backfires

New America

Jan. 19 | Commentary

With SNAP Extension, Congress Offered Relief to Food-Insecure Students

New America

Jan. 19 | Commentary

One Semester Later: How Prospective and Current College Students' Perspectives of Higher Ed Have Changed between August and December 2020

Show-Me Institute

Jan. 19 | Senate Testimony

Testimony: Senate Bill 23 and Empowerment Scholarship Accounts

Urban Institute

Jan. 19 | Fact Sheet

How Should Policymakers Apportion School Funding Postpandemic?

EdNext

Jan. 19 | Podcasts

The Education Exchange: New and Emerging Obstacles Facing Charter Schools

Center of the American Experiment

Jan. 18 | Commentary

More Seniors Hold Off on College as Aid Applications Dive

Fordham Institute

Jan. 18 | Commentary

New York City's dismantling of gifted education could hurt Black and Hispanic children most

Manhattan Institute

Jan. 18 | Video

PragerU: There Is No Apolitical Classroom

Center of the American Experiment

Jan. 18 | Commentary

Should states skip testing this spring?

New America

Jan. 18 | Commentary

The Top 10 Takeaways from the 'School-Community Partnerships for the Whole Child' Webinar Series

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