Things to read from this week

 Related reminder that if daily education news is of interest, part of my job for MASC is putting together a daily education news collection; it's called The Daily Ed and goes out via email. Today's is here, and there's a link to sign up at the bottom.

• Content warning for what happens when an AR-15 is used on human bodies: the Washington Post has put together a piece called "Terror on Repeat: A rare look at the devastation caused by AR-15 shootings". They talk about why here. 
  
  
• The year that many kids were learning from home resulted in fewer suspensions and fewer arrests, per the latest release from the Office of Civil Rights, flagging what U.S. Education Secretary Cardona says is "a reminder that we have a lot of work to do." Chalkbeat has that story here.
  
  
• The pandemic also caused Massachusetts (among others) to put into place emergency licensure for teachers. WBUR looks at a study from BU on what that has looked like in the classroom. The short version is similar impact on classroom learning as other new teachers, and greater diversity in the profession.
  
  
• History of Education Quarterly has a special edition on the SCOTUS ruling of San Antonio v. Rodriguez; that was the school funding lawsuit which essentially found that it was not a violation of the 14th amendment not to redistribution school funding across school district bounds (that's not necessarily a great summary). Professor Jack Schneider, who co-edited, did an epic twitter thread which gives read-only links to the pieces! I plan to read them all! School funding and finance aficionados, rejoice!
  
  
• There's a good look in the New Republic on how the Christian Right may have miscalculated in their push on religious charter schools.
  
  
• And as Tennessee considers turning down all federal funding, so they don't have to abide by the federal requirements that go along with it, this is my periodic reminder from me that grants are not free money; they're a contract.