Sunday Musings...

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An irregular round-up of interesting reads.  Most of these made me go "hmmmmm," none of them imply concurrence:

"Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed." - Abraham Joshua Heschel.

• Research on hostile, aggressive, partisan online behavior shows an interesting curvilinear relationship.

• More research on the positive impact of k12 dual enrollment on higher-ed degree attainment.

• Norm-wrecking the new bipartisan American trend per research.

• Globally, economic freedom and quality education are correlated per a recent study.

• More evidence that water fluoridation is not helpful to children.

• The unintended consequence of prohibition or bans on e-cigarettes

• Predatory impacts of DEI programs are studied.

• Gender differences amongst students emerge in instruction-following versus exploration.

• Research indicates a backlash against the self-interested political endorsements by big unions in campaigns amongst General Election voting populations.

• A study suggests a correlation between the decline of local news and the rise of political polarization

• Sadly, a study finds that workers would trade up to 3% in annual compensation to work with politically congruent or aligned co-workers.

• Evidence suggests that locally elected school boards demonstrate funding bias, driving greater inequality within poor-performing districts.

• While politically popular, the evidence behind early start programs continues to mount that they lack durability.

• From good to great, the impact of targeted mentorship programs and after-school academic clubs is studied.

• Promising indications from research on SEL (not all SEL programs are equal! Content matters) among teachers and students are reviewed.

• Confirming common sense:  The more parents learn about the quality of schools, the more they prefer higher-quality performance.