The post below is by guest blogger Alex Hernandez.
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The Best Things I Read This Week
FiveThirtyEight lays down the facts on US immigration and Marc Porter Magee thinks schools should pay attention. For the record, the alien invasion story is further down and is about actual extraterrestrials.
Andy Rotherham wants kidz to right really, really good and, at the end of the day, your school has no imagination and notwithstanding the foregoing get off his lawn.
Richard Whitmire dropped the The Founders, a history of America’s best charter schools. My colleague Darryl Cobb forgot he hated the internet just long enough to talk about his seriously amazing work supporting charter school leaders of color.
Matt Candler of 4pt0 Schools says “a lot of #edtech is just not helping” and proposes three technologies that will make school better for everyone. [Note: I’m on the 4pt0 board]
Researcher Susan Dynarski is an Imperator Furiosa-level badass.
Our alien overlords finally made contact before the predictable lamestream media cover-up.
We are all in the same gang: some Stanford physics PhD thinks wormholes and quantum entanglement are the same thing. He wants a truce between the theories of general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Finally, if you need something to read this holiday weekend, I recommend Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainright. Thought-provoking and downright practical.
And now… #MoosePorn. We saw these moose (don’t call them meese) while hiking Kenosha Pass in Colorado. But everyone in Colorado has moose in their backyards, obviously.
Photo taken by my friend Rebecca Hoskins
Thanks Eduwonk for letting me crash this week.
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Alex Hernandez (@thinkschools) is a partner at Charter School Growth Fund, a nonprofit that supports the growth of the nation’s best public charter schools. He serves on the boards of DSST Public Schools, Ednovate, 4.0 Schools and Rocketship Education. Alex graduated from Claremont McKenna College and has an MBA and Masters of Education from Stanford University. He lives near Boulder, CO with his wife and twin sons and can usually be found on his porch late in the evening playing Mexican folk songs.