Andrew Whitfield

Father, Virginia Native, Education Policy Nerd, PhD

[Andrew Whitfield @awhit140]

Louder

[Jon(1).pdf @Dr_JamesAvery]

Some educators lack control in major areas of their personal lives, so they come to school and try to exercise that control over children by way of policies, rules, and procedures they cannot adequately justify the purpose of. I don’t like that.

[Jon(1).pdf @Dr_JamesAvery]

Some educators lack control in major areas of their personal lives, so they come to school and try to exercise that control over children by way of policies, rules, and procedures they cannot adequately justify the purpose of. I don’t like that.

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Jason Sudeikis showed up to the season two premier of Ted Lasso wearing a shirt in support of Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka 🙏

[Marguerite Roza @MargueriteRoza]

Wouldn't call them SEA ARP "plans" so much as applications. Most didn't spell out how $ will be spent or who is in charge of what.

Upside: since not baked, there's still time to influence how SEAs deploy mega-sums.

SEAs: maybe consider competitive grants to drive innovations.

[ESPN @espn]

13-year-old Zaila Avant-garde of Louisiana is your 93rd Scripps National #SpellingBee champion ‼️

The first African-American winner of the competition 👏

[Marguerite Roza @MargueriteRoza]

Q: Does ARP require districts to deploy their ESSER$ equitably across their schools?
A: No (MoEquity applies only to state/local$)

Req’d or not, still smart to pencil out how ESSER$ will flow to each school in plans. #equity

Plus schXsch $data will ultimately show who got what.

[Yaya Touré @YayaToure]

Ooooooh Mancini! 🎶 Oooooh Mancini! 🎶
33 games unbeaten, incredible, just incredible! I love you my coach @robymancio 🕺🏾

[Ryan Murphy @JournoMurph]

An important local election.

[Andrew Whitfield @awhit140]

And Norfolk thought things couldn’t get more exciting than being able to watch the Tides from a rooftop infinity pool

[Ryan Murphy @JournoMurph]

Norfolk residents have complained to the city, and to the Pilot, and to me directly, and (presumably) to Cox Cable that there's never been an alternative internet service available in the city.

WELL NORFOLK DO I HAVE NEWS FOR YOU:

[Dr. Gema Zamarro (she/her) @gema_zamarro]

Check the summary of my latest work with @andrewcamp_ on factors explaining racial differences on modality of school attendance during this pandemic 👇

[Angela Duckworth @angeladuckw]

Please reply: What is the single most powerful/significant choice a human being can make in their life?

I was recently asked this question and will address, with Dubner, on a future episode of @NSQ_Show

[Andrew Whitfield @awhit140]

@allyblanck

[Andrew Whitfield @awhit140]

@Ducky_Bets Maybe it’s time for a new mission @Ducky_Bets

[Marguerite Roza @MargueriteRoza]

Yes they can, and should. But it seems that most of the remote-only districts are still in a holding pattern, and not shifting surpluses to invest in remediation yet.

[Andrew Whitfield @awhit140]

This is an issue that continue to plague education funding. States need to continue or increase funding levels not use more federal dollars to offset. We saw similar things to happen with Title I funding

[Marguerite Roza @MargueriteRoza]

From the "Can they do that?" file:

In Dec. feds gave $ to districts (=~ $1,100/pupil). We've been asked: Are states allowed to use it to offset state allocations to districts?

Answer: yes. (There's no SNS)

Proposed bills in VA & WA would do just that. More states may follow.

[Marguerite Roza @MargueriteRoza]

In a mid-year review of district spending, we're seeing 2 main types:

Mostly in-person: Overspending on subs/ sanitizing/ nurses/ etc.

Still remote: Surpluses w less expenses than budgeted.

More in our 30-min webinar Wed 2ET: https://t.co/tSbmmO7zl4

[Malika Andrews @malika_andrews]

Kyrie Irving: “We want to set a standard and precedent, like this is excellence. Kobe Bryant. Logo. Yes. Needs to happen. I don't care what anyone says."
More on Irving’s thoughts about changing the NBA logo: https://t.co/8GLnXjYprU

[Andrew Whitfield @awhit140]

@Ducky_Bets Feeling any NBA props today?

[Jack Lang @jacklang]

"We represent the feeling of a country."

Athletic Bilbao are famous for their Basques-only policy. But they're not the only club who operate under strict, self-imposed recruitment rules.

Join me for a magical mystery tour across three continents... https://t.co/Ok20Uzo0eV

[Andrew Whitfield @awhit140]

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