All Of The Above Podcast

This Week: The LA Times let everyone know that “nearly half of LAUSD students are chronically absent” this year. And, if you didn’t read the article (which in fairness, is pretty nuanced), and just saw the headline, you might be left with the idea that the teachers of Los Angeles were practically locking the doors of school in kids faces and telling the kids they can’t come to school. Sadly, the pressure for clickbait headlines is but one of many factors that is already leading towards a growing weaponization of data against public schools, educators, and the communities we serve. Manuel and Jeff dig into this minefield of a topic, making some predictions about where we see this heading in in the spring of 2022, once state testing data is out, and make the case that it’s not too late to change the orientation with which we look at data about our schools in response to the pandemic. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching trut