GENIUS
MacArthur ‘genius’ grant winners [including Nikole Hannah-Jones] step into the spotlight: ‘Is this really happening?’ wapo.st/2i1JPoA?tid=ss…
PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico Teachers Fleeing Hurricane Maria Arrived at Orlando’s Airport With Nothing. They Left With Jobs @The74 the74million.org/?p=512517
Student from Puerto Rico enrolls in Chicago school after Hurricane Maria abc7chicago.com/2513340/
ALL THE REST
Florida’s schools – once integration’s great hope – are resegregating washingtonpost.com/news/education…
Roughly 111,500 students in NYC schools were homeless during the 2016-17 year—”enough people to populate a small city.” nyti.ms/2ychLFa
Five takeaways from a new study of New York City’s massive ‘community schools’ program chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2017/…
Texas Trade School Tries To Keep Up With Construction Demand npr.org/2017/10/10/556…
Tempers flare at LAUSD school board — ‘I feel disenfranchised,’ one board member says laschoolreport.com/tempers-flare-…
Enrollment drops even more than expected in L.A. Unified latimes.com/local/educatio…
Record ACT score puts Tennessee on target to reach national average by 2020 chalkbeat.org/posts/tn/2017/…
CPS Pre-K Glitches Make For Frustrating Start To School Year wbez.org/shows/wbez-new…
One-Third of Girls With 4.0 GPAs Don’t Think They’re Smart — and Other Findings From National School Survey the74million.org/one-third-of-g…
Discipline disparities: How some Minnesota schools are working to reduce them minnpost.com/education/2017…
Pearson Fights Award of Iowa Testing Contract to Rival Vendor marketbrief.edweek.org/marketplace-k-… via @EdMarketBrief
Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Starts at Oxford nytimes.com/2017/10/10/wor…
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Alexander Russo
Alexander Russo is founder and editor of The Grade, an award-winning effort to help improve media coverage of education issues. He’s also a Spencer Education Journalism Fellowship winner and a book author. You can reach him at @alexanderrusso.
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