Reading roundup

a few things I've read of interest...

• I appreciate the Hechinger Report's discussion of this Philadelphia schools work on project-based learning, and the discussion of how that works with more traditional assessment methods 
• this description of the world we've created for our children with our refusal to take action on gun control is nauseating but accurate 
• watch this New Jersey case arguing that assigning students to schools based on the town that they live in leads to school assignments that violate Brown. That is, after all, how Massachusetts designates schools, as well. 
• do read Jose Vilson on what it means to be patriotic in schools
• this is from a few weeks ago, but it turns out that stat on big city superintendents lasting an average of three years isn't really accurate
• lots of talk on the new report on Boston Public Schools; do note Commonwealth's write up as well. Relatedly, note what NYC's incoming Chancellor says about limited admission programs
• it may be that Kansas still hasn't fixed their school funding issue 
• There's a really interesting conversation going on in Great Barrington about naming one of their schools after W.E.B. DuBois, who was born there.