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ICE AIN’T NICE: THE UNNECESSARY CRUELTY OF TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION CIRCUS—AND WHY IT’S FUELING THE OCTOBER 18 NO KINGS UPRISING #NoKingsProtest #NoKingsOct18 #NoKingsInAmerica
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*ICE AIN’T NICE* *THE UNNECESSARY CRUELTY OF TRUMP’S IMMIGRATION CIRCUS—AND WHY IT’S FUELING THE OCTOBER 18 NO KINGS UPRISING* Picture this: It’s 2025, a...
2 hours ago
Fred Klonsky in Retirement
Chicago en mi corazon.
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3 hours ago
Diane Ravitch's blog
Ed Johnson’s Fascinating Exchange with AI About the Hypocrisy of Charter Schools
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Ed Johnson is a systems thinker in Atlanta who frequently points to the error of fragmenting and privatizing public schools. He is aligned with the systems...
4 hours ago
Teacher Tom
"A Strong, Demanding Love"
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*"I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love: I'm talking about a strong, demanding love."* ~MLK *"The beginning of love is the will to ...
4 hours ago
Education Research Report
Youth screen use can cause problems
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The presence of cellphones can have a negative impact on family relationships and youth mental health, according to two new studies from the University ...
4 hours ago
Welcome to NPE! - Network For Public Education
Alert: Federal Special Education Staffing Gutted Putting IDEA Protections at Risk
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Hundreds of employees in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) — including staff in both the Special Education Programs and...
4 hours ago
Schools Matter
Lawrence O. Details Political Porn of Young Republicans
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4 hours ago
gbrown
"This year’s Nobel prize committee wound up illustrating the degree to which Trump is inimical to peace, progress, and prosperity"
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The Nobel Prize Committee announced its annual awards over the last week or so. Aside from the number of winners based at U.S. universities (which have...
5 hours ago
BIG EDUCATION APE UNCHAINED
MORNING NEWS UPDATE: OCTOBER 15, 2025
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5 hours ago
cloakinginequity.com/
Distorting Reality: How Education Makes Us Fear Our Own Voices
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Paul Bloom’s recent essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education, “Why Aren’t Professors Braver?,” makes a point that resonates beyond universities. He argue...
6 hours ago
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
Diwali Is On Oct. 20th – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources
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Diwali, the Hindu Festival of Lights, will start on October 20th this year. . You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About Diwali.
10 hours ago
NonDoc
Former Seminole County investigator flagged in federal Giglio letter for theft, use of narcotics
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[image: Seminole County Giglio]In District 22, a southeast Oklahoma judicial district plagued with misconduct from officials and and strained criminal ju...
13 hours ago
Choosing Democracy
Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday
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Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday: A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the fir...
14 hours ago
CURMUDGUCATION
My Ex-Wife Makes Me Think Of AI
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Let me explain. Sometime in the last few days, an insurance salesperson stopped by my house. I wasn't here, but the salesperson left a note in the door, of...
17 hours ago
Seattle Schools Community Forum
Northeast Schools' Candidate Forum, Monday, October 20,2025
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17 hours ago
the becoming radical
Fact Checking “The reading wars are ending. Phonics won.” (Washington Post Editorial Board)
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[Header Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash] The Editorial Board at The Washington Post published a bold claim: The reading wars are ending. Phonics won: ...
21 hours ago
tultican
Beyond Resilience Katrina at 20
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By Thomas Ultican 10/14/2025 The book “William Franz Public School” is a well documented work that shines a light on the deep racism in New Orleans and esp...
22 hours ago
Mike Klonsky's Edu/Pol
Ceasefire Politics
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Why Biden and the Democrats couldn't close the deal
22 hours ago
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
Curmudgucation: The School Choice Movement Is Dead
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Curmudgucation: The School Choice Movement Is Dead The school choice movement is dead. Yes, there are a few advocates hanging on, and a zombified shell of...
1 day ago
janresseger
How Will the Federal Budget Conflict, Federal Shutdown, and Federal Layoffs Affect K-12 Education?
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What will the collapse of Congressional debate about the Fiscal Year 2026 federal budget and the subsequent federal government shutdown mean for the nation...
1 day ago
Speaking of Kids
Fear and Harm as Policy: How the Feds Are Traumatizing Children
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Noem's Department of Homeland Security is not targeting the "worst of the worst" as she claims. Her agency is increasingly targeting the children of immigr...
1 day ago
CA Dept of Education - What's New
LMS Account Setup & Site Overview Webinars
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This new learning management system will be used as the primary venue for delivering training content to satisfy your annual mandatory training hours for P...
1 day ago
Class Size Matters
Our special parent privacy briefing rescheduled for Oct. 22
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Oct. 13, 2025 Our special privacy briefing for parents via Zoom has now been rescheduled for Wed. Oct 22 at 6 PM, and it will be co-sponsored as well by th...
1 day ago
Teacher in a strange land
“Progressive” Schools
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I’m old enough to remember Ronald Reagan hosting General Electric Theater, on Sunday nights, when he would look sincerely into the camera and say “General ...
1 day ago
Nancy Bailey's Education Website
Forgotten Mercy: Those Who Want Christianity in Public Schools
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God is love. ~1 John 4:8. Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you did it to me. ~Matthew 25:40 Do no...
1 day ago
Bill Ayers
REVOLUTION(s) at the GOODMAN
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REVOLUTION(s), opening tonight after a week of previews at the venerable Goodman Theatre, has just been EXTENDED through November 16!!Get your tickets now!...
2 days ago
Mike Klonsky's Edu/Pol
Weekend Quotables
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Chicago neighborhoods gassed... At last, a halt to the Gaza slaughter.
2 days ago
The Education Report
Vouchers Cause School Closures in Arizona
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Wiping out public schools was always the goal
2 days ago
Jersey Jazzman
Wake Up Call NJ's Bizarre Smear Against Public Education
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One of the reasons I brought this blog back (for the moment, at least) is that I'm starting to see the same bad arguments surface that I regularly debunk...
2 days ago
Ogo Okoye-Johnson | Blogging About – Quality Education: Past, Present and Future
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day
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2 days ago
Truth in American Education
Best Chair for Back Pain 2025 – Expert Tested
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As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases through the links below. I spent six months...
2 days ago
Change The LAUSD
Is Patriotism About Blind Loyalty or Core Values?
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Does this flag still represent me? Or am I a stranger in my own country? Read more about my thoughts about the flag, Trump, and mourning Charlie Kirk at ...
3 days ago
Union Matters By Arthur Goldstein
On Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
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There's a lot of that about.
3 days ago
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
What Causes Low Academic Performance of Urban Children? Teacher Expectations of Their Students or Residential Segregation? (Richard Rothstein)
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“Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAAC...
3 days ago
Exceptional Delaware
Christina School Board Will Vote To Remove Dr. Naveed Baqir
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When Dr. Naveed Baqir, the controversial Christina Board of Education member left America for Pakistan in January of 2024 , many citizens felt he shouldn’t...
5 days ago
The Education Wars
The Inconvenient Success of Mississippi
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It's not just education reform skeptics who are giving the Mississippi Miracle the side eye
6 days ago
NYC Public School Parents
How NYC parents can opt out of data sharing and better protect their child’s privacy
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* Important update: Our special privacy briefing via Zoom has been rescheduled to Wed. Oct. 22 at 6 PM! * In May 2025, the NYC Department of Educatio...
6 days ago
The Jose Vilson
The Genius of Our Students
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Yesterday, the MacArthur Foundation named 22 people to their hallowed fellowship program, often referred to as the “Genius Grant.” The foundation awards ...
6 days ago
The Jose Vilson
The Genius of Our Students
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Yesterday, the MacArthur Foundation named 22 people to their hallowed fellowship program, often referred to as the “Genius Grant.” The foundation awards ...
6 days ago
Dad Gone Wild
Work Hard, Burn Out, Repeat: The Culture Schools Won’t Quit
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“When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less.” “Unless you love them.” ― Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus I started in the service...
1 week ago
Student Privacy Matters
How NYC parents can opt out of data sharing and protect their child’s privacy
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Oct. 6, 2025 In May 2025, the NYC Department of Education revised Chancellor’s regulations A-820, to authorize DOE and schools to disclose a category of st...
1 week ago
Accountabaloney
Perverse Incentives in Florida’s Middle School Math Acceleration
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Even ExcelinEd’s Levesque Can Smell the Accountabaloney One of Accountabaloney’s first advocacy efforts involved hand-delivering foam clown noses to state...
1 week ago
GFBrandenburg's Blog
Don’t Follow Advice from Billionaires
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This is by Julian Vasquez Lustig. —————- When billionaires step onto a stage, release a book, or tweet some glossy piece of wisdom, the world pays attentio...
1 week ago
Stu- PUBLIC SCHOOL PROUD
My AI Defense Plan
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Curious about their loyalties, I asked three of them—starting with ChatGPT—the same question:
1 week ago
The Merrow Report
Don’t Blame Trump. It’s on Reagan (and us)
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I will start with the fun stuff, some grist for dinner and cocktail party conversations about the cost of going to college these days. Then I will try to ...
1 week ago
Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival
The Big (Education) Apple
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My trip to NYC for Books, Basslines, and the Beat of Justice
1 week ago
JD Organizing in Retirement - jd2718
Retiree Advocate Flyer: NYCE PPO
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for today's Delegate Assembly
2 weeks ago
Engaging Parents In School...
September’s Parent Engagement Resources
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Today’s teens struggle with big feelings — and their parents struggle to have hard conversations with them. A psychologist explains how to help your kids c...
2 weeks ago
10th Period
It's official. I'm taking Crazy Pills.
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Ten years after Ohio had to return $63 million of a $71 million federal charter school grant to the first Trump Administration, Ohio gets another $105 mill...
2 weeks ago
JD2718 | Education, Math, Teaching, New York, Bronx, Union, Language, Travel
It’s easy to know who not to trust – NYCE PPO (with update)
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What follows is a repost of what I wrote on Substack Wednesday – with some additional info: There’s a lot of discussion of the proposed new healthcare plan...
2 weeks ago
deutsch29
James Kirylo: America’s Peculiar Love Affair
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James D. Kirylo has been a friend of mine for many years and has been a guest contributor to my blog in the past. Among other books, Kirylo is the author ...
3 weeks ago
I AM AN EDUCATOR | Jesse Hagopian's Lesson Plan for Liberation
The Moral Famine: A Poem By Jesse Hagopian
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People are starving in Palestine. "The Moral Famine" confronts Israel’s starvation siege on Gaza and the world’s complicity in denying it.
3 weeks ago
Daily Kos
Here I go again, making an ask
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We are a majority minority school where we emphasize positive aspects, but also recognize that we need to address the whole child. Too many of our young ...
3 weeks ago
Campaign for America's Future
Aguanta, todo va a estar bien
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Los próximos meses nos pondrán a prueba como nunca antes. Como personas que creemos en la democracia, lo que significa que creemos unos en otros, nos verem...
3 weeks ago
Live Long and Prosper | Miscellaneous Ramblings
Blogoversary #19 — Time to Move on
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Times have changed. I had a nice long run here, but let’s face it, it ended a while ago. So I’ve moved. I’m not writing much any more, but when I do it wil...
4 weeks ago
Nancy’s Substack
Is there really a decline in pleasure reading?
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The mainstream media has been full of the bad news: new study shows that reading for pleasure has declined! Fewer people are reading for fun: From 2003 to ...
1 month ago
Gary Rubinstein's Blog
The Washington Post Celebrates The 20th Anniversary Of The New Orleans ‘Miracle’
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It has been 20 years since Hurricane Katrina wiped out the New Orleans schools system causing it to be replaced with all charter school. And it has been ov...
1 month ago
Fiction. Feminism. Fat Girls.
Last call for ARC readers: Addicted to Glove
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"Major League" meets "Ted Lasso" with a hint of "Three Men and a Baby" in this age gap, surprise pregnancy romcom set in the Pacific Northwest.
1 month ago
Save Our Schools March
Where to Find the Best Unicorn Coloring Pages Online
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Unicorns continue to captivate imaginations across all age groups, from toddlers discovering their first magical creatures to adults seeking stress-relie...
2 months ago
Schoolfinance101's Blog
Revisiting Deceitful Claims about School Funding and Outcomes (a thread)
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I’ve had enough. This has to stop. I’ve explained on at least a few occasions that there exists a cottage industry for whom their bread and butter is telli...
2 months ago
Diane Ravitch
What Will Todd Blanche Discuss with Ghislaine Maxwell? One Guess.
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Todd Blanche was Donald Trump's personal lawyer in his criminal trial in New York City.
2 months ago
Round the Inkwell
McGrath and Kaminsky: Key Names in the School Policy Debate
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The landscape of American school policy is no longer shaped only behind closed doors. It’s debated in town halls, on social media, and through public prote...
4 months ago
Public Enemy Number 1
"Didn't do *that*," part 1: new Schofield case developments reveal crucial 10th Circuit/Ledger lie
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The record is clear. Jeremy Scott confessed at least 40 times in a 2017 hearing. He never recanted. The Ledger must retract its lie to force Judge Kevin Ab...
4 months ago
CLASSROOM STRUGGLE | Strategy and Analysis to Defend and Transform Public Education
Achieve 3000 Answers Key (Updated 2023)
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Are you on the hunt for the most recent Achieve 3000 answers for the year 2023? Your search is over! ... Read more
5 months ago
Grumpy Old Teacher
Il Papa è Morto
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Francis brought a distinct pastoral outlook to his papacy. A simple man, he lived in a small apartment in the guesthouse. He sought to make the church acce...
5 months ago
Living in Dialogue
Kemenangan Member Birutoto Main PG Soft Speed Winner
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Kemenangan Member Birutoto Main PG Soft Speed Winner Birutoto – Situs Slot Gacor Terpercaya The post Kemenangan Member Birutoto Main PG Soft Speed Winner...
5 months ago
Opine I will
Trump plays Putin’s Playbook
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Recently Aleksander Dugin was interviewed on CNN, last week, and he stated that he believes Trump is closer ideologically to President Putin than to Washin...
6 months ago
SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL
Mike Shulman the ARISE UFT Judenrat
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I was surprised to learn that Mike Shulman has aligned himself with ARISE. I previously supported him, advocating that the Castle Doctrine could have bee...
6 months ago
Deborah Meier Homepage
How Do We Fight Trump?
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Dear Friends, I don’t know when and why it hit me. But I suddenly realized how serious Trump is about changing the country into something that horrifies. I...
6 months ago
My Island View
Can Students Expect a Relevant Education to be Delivered by Irrelevant Educators?
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As a veteran teacher of forty years in the classroom, let me be clear, teachers are not completely at fault for becoming irrelevant in their profession. It...
7 months ago
Crazy Normal - the Classroom Exposé | An insider's look at education, teaching, parenting and coming of age.
The US Department of Education Should not be Eliminated. Still, it must be reformed.
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If you don’t have an attention span that lasts long enough to learn what I’m teaching in this post, start with the conclusion first. Then if you want to re...
8 months ago
A Teacher on Teaching
Site Index - Updated December 31, 2024
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BLOGGER’S NOTE: If you are new to this blog, and interested in the topic of immigration, I recommend you go right to the massive new post: “How Immigrat...
9 months ago
NewBlackMan (in Exile)
Malcolm & John David Washington Talk NFL, Christopher Nolan & ‘The Piano Lesson’
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'The Washington brothers built their careers apart—until an irresistible project drew them together. In The *Piano Lesson*, they tackle a father’s thorny...
10 months ago
redqueeninla
“I’m Done With Him; He’s A Douchebag” …And Other Tales From Distant Doors And Stoops
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The Democratic Party has been joining with thousands of allied groups working feverishly to hold off TFG’s fever-dream. I’ve long… The post “I’m Done Wit...
11 months ago
Dr. Edward F. Berger
AIN’T IT AWFUL
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As the terrible feelings of dread and angst spread across the world the great majority of the American people feel powerless before the onslaught of those ...
1 year ago
Education Matters
Did Darryl Willie lie or interfere in the whistleblower investgation? Why not both?
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Willie said below to Action News Jax [image: image.png] It's troubling for quite a few reasons. First he is saying the board knew about the complaint an...
1 year ago
gadflyonthewallblog
Could This Be Gadfly’s End? Top 12 Articles From 2023 Read By Fewer Than Ever
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After 9 years of pounding my head against the wall - well, it seems like the wall is winning.
1 year ago
Ed In The Apple
Redesigning School Governance: Beyond Mayoral Control
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From time to time the legislature passes a bill with a sunset provision, unless the law is reauthorized by a specific date the law reverts to the law it re...
1 year ago
Education Town Hall Forum | Archives and Extended Discussion
POSTPONED: Florida’s Impact on Social Studies
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POSTPONED: discussion with Florida and DC educators and advocates on the impact of Florida's new laws Continue reading
2 years ago
NYC Educator
Vote NO on the UFT Contract. Here is Why:
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The best reason to vote no on this contract is this: UFT Unity* lied* to us in 2018. They misrepresented that contract. It was predicated on deals we wer...
2 years ago
Grand Graffiti
A Stadium Proposal for the NFL's Jaguars
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Baldwin.
2 years ago
Sam Chaltain
All My New Writing is on Substack
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Come check it out . . . samchaltain.substack.com
2 years ago
Parents United for Responsible Education
Testimony to the CPS Truancy Task Force
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I prepared testimony for one of two public hearings held by the Chicago Public Schools Truancy Task Force, a body mandated by state legislation. The meetin...
2 years ago
With A Brooklyn Accent
Tennis Memories from a Time When Racism and Anti-Semitism Still Prevailed
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I learned tennis at a public park in Brooklyn- Lincoln Terrace- where the teaching pro was a mailman named Phil Rubell. Almost all the kids who took lesson...
3 years ago
Diary of a Public School Teacher!
There Is A Teacher Shortage.Not.
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THERE IS A TEACHER SHORTAGE. And just to be sure you understand, it’s not that teachers don’t want to teach. It’s not that there aren’t enough teachers cer...
3 years ago
okeducationtruths
Reason #1 to pick Dr. Grace over Mr. Walters: The future we’ve already seen
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In 2014, Oklahoma voters corrected the mistake we made in 2010. In 2022, let’s not make the mistake in the first place. Elect Dr. April Grace instead. She ...
3 years ago
Real Learning CT | Educators Reclaiming the Conversation
The Second Amendment Explained
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3 years ago
Philadelphia Public School Notebook
Want to know the condition of a Philly school building? New map to help.
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[image: Two students walk by a Philadelphia school building.] Aging infrastructure has been an issue for Philadelphia schools for years. A new interactive...
3 years ago
DCGEducator: Doing The Right Thing
STREET LIFE
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My mom told me, “You should treat all people equally, but don’t bring a “colored” into the house.” I believed … Continue reading →
3 years ago
solidaridad
Schools Matter: Reflecting on Green Dot’s Disastrous Locke Takeover
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*“Green Dot came and made it into more of a jail.” — Chris* My history of opposing the Green Dot Charter School Corporation back when I was an activist i...
3 years ago
Russ on Reading
Book Banning Turns to Dick and Jane
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Breaking News: Dateline February 4, 2022 - Parents in Dimwitty, Alabama have asked the Dimwitty Board of Education to ban the children's primer *Fun with...
3 years ago
EduShyster
Have You Heard Has a New Website
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TweetHave You Heard has a new website. Visit us at www.haveyouheardpodcast.com to find our latest episodes and our entire archive. And be sure to check out...
3 years ago
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog
Follow me at Substack
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I've moved. Follow me at Substack I'm now posting regularly at Substack. You can subscribe for free to my new Edu/Pol blog at michaelklonsky.substack.com ...
3 years ago
Fred Klonsky's blog
I’ve moved.
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I’m on Substack now. Five bucks a month to subscribe.
4 years ago
Educate All Students: Larry Miller's Blog
Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights
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The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win...
4 years ago
Larry Miller's Blog
Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights
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The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win...
4 years ago
Education | 89.3 KPCC
Aspiring Teachers Get New Help Paying For College
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[image: colorful classroom pattern] *; Credit: shuoshu/Getty Images* Cory Turner | NPR New rules kick in today that will help aspiring teachers pay for c...
4 years ago
Los Angeles Education Examiner
Major victory over a corporate charter school chain and their trade association
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Original post at Robert’s page on Medium. On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, I got my second big win in court against a charter school corporation. It was also a ...
4 years ago
WeArePCAPS | Philly Coalition Advocating for Public Schools
Tips Akses Situs Judi Qq Tanpa Perlu Takut Nawala
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Kegiatan berjudi slot melalui situs judi qq online, sekarang sudah dilakukan oleh banyak penjudi Indonesia. Tentu, Kamu yang sedang membaca artikel ini a...
4 years ago
Perdaily.com
The Threat of Integration
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I have lived in the same house in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles for over 30 years, where up until now I have had little or no interaction with th...
4 years ago
VAMboozled!
New Teacher Evaluation Report Released by the Network for Public Education
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A new report on current teacher evaluation systems throughout the US was just released by the Network for Public Education. The report is titled, “Teachers...
4 years ago
One Flew East
www.job-applications.com
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https://www.job-applications.com/bed-bath-and-beyond-job-application/
4 years ago
NEA Today
Teacher Creates National Database Tracking COVID-19 Outbreaks in Schools
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Kansas educator Alisha Morris's online coronavirus news-tracker goes viral, now hosted on a new NEA website.
5 years ago
Missouri Education Watchdog
Correction for July 10th Post on School District Audit
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On July 10, 2020 we published a post “School District Caught Manipulating Attendance Records to Get More Money” which incorrectly cited Valley Park School ...
5 years ago
lily’s blog –
We fight for a democracy worthy of us all!
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The nation stands at a crossroads, said NEA President Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa in her final keynote address to the 2020 NEA Representative Assembly and it’s up...
5 years ago
Education Law Prof Blog
Giving Private Schools Federal Emergency Funds Slated for Low-income Students Will Shortchange At-risk Kids
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Low-income Seattle students began to pick up bagged lunches in March after their school closed. Karen Ducey/Getty Images Derek W. Black, University of Sout...
5 years ago
Chaz's School Daze
The Passing Of Chaz 1951-2020 Age 69
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I am the son of Chaz and like to inform you that he passed away this afternoon from the COVID virus. My father passed in peace beside his loved ones. We ar...
5 years ago
K-12 News Network's The Wire
Let The Next Round Of Anti-Semitic Ads Begin
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All four pro-public education candidates came in first in their LAUSD school board elections, but two will face run-offs in November.
5 years ago
Marie Corfield
The Fight For Our Children
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*The number of suicides among people ages 10 to 24 nationally increased by 56 percent between 2007 and 2017, according to a new federal report showing the ...
5 years ago
All Things Education
Love Grow Your Own (but not without the actual growth part)
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The Governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, recently announced a grow-your-own type of program for teachers. According to this piece: On Monday, Governor Ral...
5 years ago
Seattle Education
Another attempted cash grab by the corporate ed crowd in Washington State: House Bill 2788
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The League of Women Voters has opposed charter schools because they don’t have boards elected by the voters but instead the corporation running the schools...
5 years ago
Louisiana Educator
Some of Our Graduates Don't Even Know How to Tighten a Nut
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Are schools neglecting practical knowledge and skills? Many of our students are graduating from high school with extremely limited practical knowledge essen...
5 years ago
DIARY OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER!
Read to Self: Just a Kid and a Book.
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Date: Monday, January 5, 2020 Place: My classroom Student: Mrs.Mims, could we start doing Read to Self again because I got this great book for Christmas an...
5 years ago
Pissed Off
Reminiscences
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I just finished dumping the rest of my lesson plans. I guess I held on to the calculus ones for so long because I spent so much time working on them an...
5 years ago
BustED Pencils
Just Asking for some Teachers I know.
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Recently Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers stated, We must … recognize that part of supporting our kids in the classroom means supporting the educators who t...
5 years ago
The Edvocate Blog
Charging a terrified 10-year-old girl as a criminal is a very bad look for state attorney Dennis Ward
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What the hell is going on? As a parent, I feel very comfortable using this exact wording to ask this … Continue reading →
6 years ago
Reclaim Reform | by Ken Previti
Cara Menang Bermain Judi Bola Online
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Bermain judi bola online tentu saja memiliki kesenangannya tersendiri baik itu mendapatkan keuntungan maupun ketika menantikan hasil skor pada sebuah perta...
6 years ago
Badass Teachers Association
Blaming Schools for Student Absences is Like Denouncing Doctors for Disease by Steven Singer
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Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2019/08/25/blaming-schools-for-student-absences-is-like-denouncing-doctors-for-disease/?fbclid=IwAR1LV...
6 years ago
Bob Braun's Ledger
Jersey journalist roughed up at session sponsored by charter school groups
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The sponsors of an event that doesn’t like journalists An independent New Jersey journalist was roughed up, his video camera was seized, and he was ejected...
6 years ago
Schooling in the Ownership Society
K12 Inc. Data Breach Puts thousands of students at risk
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It's hard to believe school districts are still contracting with this horrible company. K12 Inc. is the largest for-profit online alternative to actual pub...
6 years ago
An Urban Teacher's Education
A Critique of Standards-Based Grading
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It first happened to me about ten years ago. I was beginning my third year of teaching in a new school in Washington, DC. Social studies teachers were si...
6 years ago
Raginghorseblog
My First and Last Visit to Hudson Yards
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Figuring I did not need to invite any more darkness and vulgarity into my head than that provided on a daily basis from Trump’s White House, and after read...
6 years ago
Children should not be a number.
Reduced time for testing? Not so fast.
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NYSED and Commish Elia continue to say that the NYS Assessments are of reasonable length, I completely disagree. Here is what NYSED states are average expe...
6 years ago
Mother Crusader
A Response to NorthJersey.com's Explosive "Cashing in on Charter Schools" Series
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From NorthJersey.com's Cashing in on Charter Schools series Please note: THIS is what journalism looks like. For the better part of a *DECADE* I have wa...
6 years ago
Education Opportunity Network
3/19/2019 – New ‘Our Schools’ Media Project To Report On Privatization Movement
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6 years ago
Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools
This Week in Education Organizing - February 15, 2019
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Coalition for Education Justice to Release Report on CRE Eighty-five percent of public school students in New York City are Black, Latinx, or Asian and y...
6 years ago
UNITED OPT OUT: The Movement to End Corporate Education Reform
The World According to Michelle Rhee
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The men behind the curtain fashioning the brave new world of corporate run education in America! Michelle Rhee is the founder of StudentsFirst, The New T...
7 years ago
SKrashen
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Better parenting: Home visits show young mom how to break her family's cycle of violence -- chicagotribune.com
Better parenting: Home visits show young mom how to break her family's cycle of violence -- chicagotribune.com
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"Mom can imprint alternatives to aggressive behavior on her 1-year-old son -- but it must be done now, research shows"
Shantell Thomas stood in front of her son's strawberry-flavored birthday cake, jaw clenched, knuckles white from the ferocious grip she had on the 10-inch carving knife.
A dozen rowdy youngsters behind her pushed toward the cake, jostling Thomas and knocking Styrofoam cups off the table. Jabari, the 1-year-old birthday boy, sat on his aunt's lap nearby and wailed.
Thomas wheeled around and raised the knife. "Back the fff up," she yelled, catching herself before a curse could slip out. "Or I'm 'bout to cut some necks off."
It had been a stressful night for the 18-year-old mother of two, who organized a party for a dozen and then saw 40 show up. Her mom didn't make it, and she was left to run Pin the Tail on the Donkey on her own.
Her outburst was the default reaction for a teenager raised in a home where violence was the accepted way of dealing with frustration. And her struggle represents the challenge of teaching a teenager how to manage the stress of motherhood and break the intergenerational cycle of violence.
Thomas is working to alter her aggressive tendencies, and at the party, help came in the form of Cynthia Brown, her counselor in a parenting program.
"Shantell," said Brown, "maybe we can think about a better way to say that?"
Thomas dropped the knife to hip level and relaxed her shoulders. "OK, OK, back up,
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