Kathleen Porter-Magee

The story of the day is Louisiana.

Congratulations Cade Brumley, Kelli Bottger and everyone who worked so hard to show what was possible.

To make such significant gains on the NAEP in the midst of the pandemic disruptions is extraordinary.

Georgetown panelists discuss 'crucial fight' over Trump's mass deportation promise The public dialogue, which was held Dec. 10, featured commentary focusing on how Catholic social principles such as solidarity, especially with marginalized immigrant communities, can chart a hopeful ...

The public dialogue, which was held Dec. 10, featured commentary focusing on how Catholic social principles such as solidarity, especially with marginalized immigrant communities, can chart a hopeful path forward in the coming months.

“Then, at the end, she gave me one last gift…She left me the means to expiate all those sins of omission and commission that crowd my mind at three in the morning. She left me Ringo. For better or worse, I will be Assistant No. 2 to the very end of his days, or mine.”

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Exploring the Impact of New York City’s Gifted and Talented Program: A Matched Comparison Study journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

"significant gains in middle school English language arts and math proficiency...Black and Hispanic students showed the largest increase"

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The quest for this tradeoff ended really well last time… 😳

“Some of the more unusual items include a suit of armor, a set of bagpipes, a Gucci bag filled with Egyptian historical artifacts and a puppet — of Hoggle, a grumpy dwarf — used in the 1986 fantasy movie “Labyrinth.”

This is an insane frame.

“…what we hope to do in part is to liberate people…to embrace the role of children in human life without thinking that immediately commits them to a conservative, anti-women, anti-progress, anti-equality stance.”

Related fun (?) fact: I was born on the day of my dad’s last Georgetown Law final in the mid-1970s. They required “proof”, which of course he didn’t have because birth certificates aren’t issued that quickly. So he brought me days after as “proof.”

So, sounds likes it’s gotten even *worse*

Even developing countries like South Africa that are spending a huge percentage of their GDP on education are failing to meet these minimal targets.

Clearly in education, money is not enough. It matters what actually happens inside a school.

Step 1 is increasing access. Step 2 is about quality and results.

Step 1 is far easier (and less controversial) than Step 2.

Fascinating; new data suggest summer slide is not just forgetting of academic material; seasonal variation observed on lab cognitive measures.

2024, a year in the global history of the abuse crisis Signs of the times. The abuse crisis in the church continues unabated, with alarming news becoming the “new normal.” While progress is made in safeguarding, much remains to be done, including implemen...

“We have become so exposed to small doses of almost daily news on the abuse crisis that we have developed a kind of dangerous immunity…There is good news about the church's work on preventing and safeguarding…But there is still a lot to do”

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“Grief demands our vulnerability. It asks our hearts to soften their stony exteriors and allow ourselves to be undone by loss. To really feel the impact of our love. Grief is the agreement we make when we open our hearts wide to another person or being.”

The rise and fall of achievement gap research edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...

Vincent D'Onofrio & @vincentdonofrio Pigs can't look up. But I could pick a pig up one night and raise it into the sky and tilt this pig ever so gentle. I can make sure this pigs eyes line up with the stars. Imagine seeing the stars 4the first time.l want 2b treated that kindly and see the stars for the first time.

I feel like this was the greatest celebrity post of all time because you initially want to make fun of it because we’re all irony poisoned jerks but the sheer scale of human compassion overwhelms it and you end up going yes Vincent I also want to help a pig see the stars for the first time

Tonight there will be a Blue Supermoon at 9:35 ET

The moon will appear about 8% larger than a normal full moon and 15% brighter than a normal full moon.

The next one won't be until January 2037. Keep any eye out tonight!

"Creativity is hardwired in our brains, and we cannot outsource thinking or acts of creation to a predictive robot that generates biased, bad jacket copy and deeply creepy art."

Interview: E.J. Dionne on the Catholic vote and the future of Catholic politics "The Trump administration is going to present real challenges to Catholics," E.J. Dionne says in a conversation with America.

“Even in the CNN exit poll, Harris still wins 40 percent of the Catholic vote. And when Republicans do very badly in an election, they still get at least 40 percent of the Catholic vote. This means that there’s a lot of swing within our community.”

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Appreciate my @leadershipround.bsky.social colleagues putting together this Catholic Leadership starter pack!

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There’s one about a school superintendent who goes to a small town to serve as interim amidst a budget crisis and saves the town music program. Solid crossover content. 🤣

“6 states currently monitor whether 9th graders are having a successful first year in high school. Data from 5 of those states shows significantly fewer students were on track in 2021-22 than in 2018-19.”

As it enters polar night, this Alaska town won’t see sunrise for 64 days Utqiagvik, Alaska — formerly known as Barrow — won’t see the sun rise until 2025.

A truly long winter’s night!

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Democrats thought they had put the anger of Virginia parents for the prolonged school closures behind them. They were wrong. Great piece by @danagoldstein.bsky.social

Read the full article here: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/u...

"...while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse."

"Although many voters take their religion seriously, it doesn't seem to determine how they vote. Instead, Burge sees a trend in which a voter's political identity is their 'master identity,' with 'everything else living downstream.'"

Despite public perception, and for the first time in decades, college acceptance rates are going up Something dramatic is happening to the college application process, for the first time in decades: It’s becoming easier to get in.

“The median acceptance rate at bachelor’s degree-granting universities and colleges was 7.6 percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012” hechingerreport.org/a-trend-coll...

Three reasons why so few eighth graders in the poorest schools take algebra Surveys find access to algebra is only one problem in schools where teaching quality is 'less optimal'

Three reasons why so few eighth graders in the poorest schools take algebra hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

"Nearly half of the wealthiest schools offered algebra to all of their eighth grade students, regardless of math ability, compared with about a third of the poorest schools."