Jack Schneider

Understanding School Principals’ Perspectives on Using Data for Improvement Despite expectations for data-informed decision making, little is known about which data principals find useful or how they use them. Through interviews with principals in a district introducing ne...

"Contrary to prior research, we found that principals highly valued...data about student experience outcomes, actively combining data to build data cultures, understand students holistically, and organize interventions."

My latest, with @lizzumpe.bsky.social and Derrick Dzormeku.

#202 College Inside, College Outside We meet eight former prison inmates who are now attending college on campus at Boston College. These students in the BC Prison Education Program reflect on the transition from incarceration to college

In the latest episode of the pod, @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social reminds us of the power of higher education by telling the story of those who started the college journey behind bars.
@haveyouheard.bsky.social

#201 Use It Or Lose It Play #201 Use It Or Lose It by Have You Heard on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

Just now getting around to sharing this excellent (if I do say so myself) episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social, featuring the fabulous @derekgottlieb.bsky.social, @drrachelswhite.bsky.social, @knightabo.bsky.social, and @johannneem.bsky.social

Understanding School Principals’ Perspectives on Using Data for Improvement Despite expectations for data-informed decision making, little is known about which data principals find useful or how they use them. Through interviews with principals in a district introducing ne...

Back from abroad and excited to see that this piece has since entered the world. (Free access)

How can you figure out what's a great school without using GreatSchools? Test scores are only one measure of what happens inside a school. Here’s what to look for to find the best fit for your child.

Nice piece that I had missed earlier in the year.

#200 Don’t Buy the AI Hype It’s the 200th episode of Have You Heard and we’ve assembled an all-star lineup to help us make sense of what the AI ‘revolution’ in education is really about. Audrey Watters, Ben Riley and John Warne

What better way to celebrate episode 200 of Have You Heard than by dismantling the AI hype machine? Thanks @audreywatters.bsky.social, @biblioracle.bsky.social ‬& ‪‪@benjaminjriley.bsky.social‬ for making us smarter & to our listeners for making the pod a success! soundcloud.com/haveyouheard...

Very grateful to have the opportunity to discuss the harms of AI in education, and technofascism, and be described as a skunk (affectionately).

And @audreywatters.bsky.social speaks truth to power: "How can we encourage AI's *non* use? How do we reclaim our lives?"

#200 Don’t Buy the AI Hype Play #200 Don’t Buy the AI Hype by Have You Heard on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

Episode 200 of @haveyouheard.bsky.social is a gem. Come for @audreywatters.bsky.social, @biblioracle.bsky.social, and @benjaminjriley.bsky.social…stay for our producer Francisco Rafart, who makes a surprise guest appearance at the end.

12News I-Team finds Arizona's $1 billion voucher experiment hurting high-performing public districts and charter schools Former Gov. Doug Ducey said the state's Empowerment Scholarship Accounts would pull kids out of failing schools—state records tell an entirely different story.

AZ vouchers as a cautionary tale: $1 billion a year in private school tuition; 45% of the students receiving vouchers never attended public school; & a big chunk of the rest left A-rated schools. So much for helping needy students in struggling schools.

NO KINGS MASS 50501 JUNE 14 11AM-3PM BOSTON PRIDE COPLEY SQUARE to BOSTON COMMON TABLE & PARADE CONTINGENT BUT YAAAS Come uplift the LGBTQIA+ community through solidarity during the joyful act of resistance that Pride has and always will be! QUEEN HERE TO STAY! • INDIVISIBLE MASS COALITION MASS mass50501.org 50. 50г BOSTON PRIDE FOR THE PEOPLE ! PARADE AND FESTIVAL 2025

Boston's No Kings parade tomorrow would have clashed with the Pride Parade so the city has decided to lump everything together and call it "NO KINGS, but YAAAAS Queen!"

Go Boston!

I've said it before: public schools commit themselves to taking every child who walks in the door, regardless of needs, and sending them away when they're done better off than they were. Sure, they aren't perfect, but they're head and shoulders morally superior to a lot of other institutions.

We don't need to pretend that our schools are perfect. But we do need to be aware that if we lose what we have, it's never coming back.

Tinkering toward utopia is a long road. A long, long road.

But the alternative is a swing of the wrecking ball.

Don't be fooled.

When they voice their complaints about our schools, those aren't the good-faith arguments of people trying to advance the spirit at the heart of public education. Those are the bad-faith arguments of those who seek to dismantle the entire enterprise.

You know who hates our system of public education?

People who don't like the idea of democracy; people ideologically opposed to taxation; people who think that freedom *to* is more important than freedom *from*; people who believe that our unequal society is proof of natural hierarchies.

Our public education system is plagued by inequality, segregation, bureaucratization, political meddling, etc.

I'll be among the first to stand up and agree.

But look at where we started, and then look at where we are. And then consider what we stand to lose.

This is the work of generations.

Imagine proposing a system that would serve every kid in this country (no exceptions), fully fund 13 years of nearly year-round support, employ trained professionals to lead the work, and seek to produce a wide range of positive outcomes--from academic preparation to self-actualization.

We have it.

The Trump Administration’s Education Agenda: A Tragedy in 2 Acts The Trump administration’s funding cuts and attacks on public education are just the beginning.

Trump’s war on Harvard has dominated the headlines; but what’s more concerning is the administration’s plan to limit access to higher education.

The Trump Administration’s Education Agenda: A Tragedy in 2 Acts The Trump administration’s funding cuts and attacks on public education are just the beginning.

ICYMI: My latest with @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social in @thenation.com

We can live in a society together. Or we can live as individuals untethered from one another. But we can’t have both.

#199 Dangerous Learning, Dangerous Times Legal scholar Derek Black is a vocal critic of the Trump administration’s anti-DEI crusade, arguing that the effort to impose what he calls ‘loyalty oaths’ on schools is blatantly unconstitutional. Bl

In the latest episode of @haveyouheard.bsky.social we talk with the always-inspiring @derekwblack.bsky.social about education, the law, and democracy.

The Trump Administration’s Education Agenda: A Tragedy in 2 Acts The Trump administration’s funding cuts and attacks on public education are just the beginning.

Act one is "cutting the fat." Act two is "building back muscle." And what is that muscle going to do?

My latest with @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social in @thenation.com.

The Education Wars

This case was dangerous for ed conservatives.

The non-decision preserves a key element of their privatization campaign: the ambiguous public/private nature of charters.

@jenniferberkshire.bsky.social and @jackschneider.bsky.social made the case: it's privatization they're really after:

Finally, the legendary Larry Cuban offers his take.

Third is Yoon K. Pak, recent past-president of the History of Education Society.

Next up is @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social, whose insights are always worth reading.

The first response/reflection comes from the inimitable @johannneem.bsky.social.

First is the essay from the AHA team -- Nicholas Kryczka, Whitney E. Barringer, and Scot McFarlane.

Last summer, a team from @historians.org issued a report on the teaching of history in U.S. K-12 schools.

We asked them to write an essay-length version of that report for History of Education Quarterly.

And then we invited four leading scholars to comment. In this thread, I'll post links to all.

Finally, we have an amazing forum on the teaching of history in the United States. I'll send that out in a separate thread.

Access to the whole issue, including four book reviews, here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The fourth and final feature article is by @mnathantanner.bsky.social