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Schools Matter
Students Remember KIPP: Preface
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Lots of policy people, educators, parents, and even union leaders were initially attracted to the concept of charter schools by happy talk of parent and ...
3 hours ago
Diane Ravitch's blog
Jonathan V. Last: Biden Won the War on Crime!
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Jonathan V. Last writes for The Bulwark, a website for Never Trumper Republicans that has some of the best writing on the current state of politics. In thi...
6 hours ago
gbrown
The Washington Post’s Fact Checker estimated Trump made 30,573 “false or misleading claims"
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For whatever reason, it has always been difficult for people to call out Trump’s lies. In the early days of his presidency, it was, perhaps, understan...
8 hours ago
CURMUDGUCATION
ICYMI: May Mart Edition (5/5)
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The first weekend in May in my small town is a big festival of growing things, with both parks filled with vendors selling plant and plant-related stuff. M...
10 hours ago
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Facts about the State of School Reform in the U.S.
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In this post, I will do what lawyers often do when arguing a case. I will stipulate certain statements as facts. These statements may not sound like facts ...
13 hours ago
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
A Look Back: “Flowchart For When A Day Goes Bad In Classroom Management”
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(I’m republishing posts on my My All-Time Favorite Posts list. This one appeared in 2013. You can see them all here) As regular readers of this blog and my...
13 hours ago
Big Education Ape
THE BOY WHO CRIED 'FAKE NEWS!' AN ORWELLIAN TALE
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*THE BOY WHO CRIED 'FAKE NEWS!'* *AN ORWELLIAN TALE* Introduction Once upon a current era, in the towering shadows of opulence and power, dwelt Donald...
1 day ago
Education Research Report
How teens thrive online: factors that shape digital success revealed
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Peer-Reviewed Publication A new study co-authored by *Sophie Janicke-Bowles*, associate professor in Chapman University’s *School of Communication*, s...
1 day ago
Public Enemy Number 1
The new High Point "Church" worship schedule has lots of politics, but no Jesus
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Embattled Lake Wales Pastor Mayor Jack Hilligoss is too busy hyping/selling gross political events to shout out his supposed savior. Behold fake, corrupt C...
1 day ago
CA Dept of Education - What's New
Summer EBT 2024 Benefit Issuance Timeline Update
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This communication provides additional information for school food authorities (SFA) about the 2024 Summer EBT (S-EBT) benefit issuance timeline and provid...
1 day ago
Seattle Schools Community Forum
Sussing Out the Changes in the KUOW story on the Rape Allegations at Garfield High School
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It appears there two versions of the most recent Garfield High School rape story by KUOW. Via email I learned that KUOW changed/updated the story but th...
2 days ago
Dad Gone Wild
A Little Good, A Little Bad, A Little Ugly – You Decide Which is Which.
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“But you must live your own life eventually. You have one chance only.” ― Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong Going to kick the morning off with a little good new...
2 days ago
Grumpy Old Teacher
The Run for the Roses (Julep-free Edition)
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The fillies run today in the Kentucky Oaks, which can be more fun than Saturday when the boys do the Derby. But here in Jacksonville, outside the one scrat...
2 days ago
Fred Klonsky in Retirement
Medicare Advantage plans are in crisis. Will seniors pay the cost? Of course we will.
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Medicare Advantage enrollment is up but profits are down. This is the inevitable problem when private for-profit healthcare is taking over more and more of...
2 days ago
Teacher Tom
Clean Up Time Without Bossing the Kids Around
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In a comment on yesterday's post about my course The Technology of Speaking With Children So They Can Think, a reader asked for more specific examples o...
2 days ago
Dr. Edward F. Berger
FINDING AND BUILDING COMMUNITY
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AI Requires Entirely Different Communities (Part 7 of 7) A few years ago, I created the Facebook site, Education For Their Future Not Our Past. I was aware...
2 days ago
Choosing Democracy
Its Hard to Write This e mail
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This email is hard to write. Last weekend, my husband and I joined the anti-war encampment at Washington University in St. Louis to support studen...
2 days ago
Welcome to NPE! - Network For Public Education
Grassroots Education Network- April 2024 Newsletter
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The NPE Grassroots Education Network is a nationwide network of over 195 grassroots organizations that have joined together to preserve, promote, improve...
3 days ago
tultican
Reselling NCLB … No Kidding!
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By Thomas Ultican 5/1/2024 Neoliberals joined with libertarians to “reform” public education. Their tools were big money and propaganda distributed by medi...
3 days ago
Mike Klonsky's Edu/Pol
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
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Columbia '68 and '24 coming up Friday on Hitting Left
3 days ago
Bill Ayers
Episode # 98–listen, subsribe, rate, repost
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Episode #98: American Precariat with Zeke Caligiuri
3 days ago
radical eyes for equity
Blue America: “policemen and functionaries who kept society as it is”
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[Header Photo by Steve Johnson on Unsplash] Bella Baxter experiences several awakenings—some gradual, some abrupt—in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things, a pastich...
4 days ago
Class Size Matters
Negotiations on mayoral control temporarily on hold!
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April 17, 2024 Because of a cyberattack that hit Albany, negotiations over Mayoral control and the budget are temporarily on hold. Meanwhile, the only educ...
4 days ago
NYC Public School Parents
Sign up now for our Parent Action Conference on May 11th!
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You're invited! Class Size Matters will hold our annual Parent Action Conference co-sponsored with NYC Kids Pac on May 11th. Keynote speakers will foc...
5 days ago
Gary Rubinstein's Blog
I performed Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Vampire’ at my school’s faculty talent show [Video]
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In my first book ‘Reluctant Disciplinarian’ I made a big deal about how it is risky for a teacher to be too nice or too fun or, in some ways, too ‘human’ a...
5 days ago
janresseger
Press Reports Ranking American High Schools Mislead the Public
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Here is Stanford University sociologist Sean Reardon describing in rather technical language what his research has shown for decades about a school or scho...
5 days ago
deutsch29
Ohio’s *School Vouchers for All*: Expanded, Expensive, but Not Audited
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EdChoice, Ohio’s school voucher program, is the subject of a lawsuit dating back to January 2022. Among other issues, the suit notes, “Due in large part to...
5 days ago
Campaign for America's Future
Sick, Tired and Mad as Hell: We Demand an End to Care Denials at United's HQ
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“What is our goal in being here today?” Mindy Salango from West Virginia Citizen Action Group asked the hundred protesters who took over the lobby of Unite...
6 days ago
The Merrow Report
An ‘Education President’ (revisited)
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If you believe that honest government is part of the solution and not, as Ronald Reagan famously said, ‘the problem,’ and if you believe that public educat...
1 week ago
Nancy Bailey's Education Website
There’s Too Much Stuff on Classroom Walls!
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Classroom walls for young children learning to read are often covered with words, letters, word sounds, symbols, vocabulary, and even speech therapy pron...
1 week ago
Engaging Parents In School...
April’s Parent Engagement Resources
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How a Humboldt Park school is helping parents learn English and gain confidence is from Chalkbeat. Reminded of two great .@IESResearch resources after read...
1 week ago
Student Privacy Matters
Join us on May 6: No more student data sales!
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In In February, the NY State Attorney General Tish James signed a consent decree with the College Board, prohibiting them from selling personal student dat...
1 week ago
Truth in American Education
What Country Has The Longest School Day? A Comprehensive Guide
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In today’s fast-paced world, education plays a crucial role in shaping the future of individuals and nations...
2 weeks ago
A Teacher on Teaching
Bibliography for History Posts on This Blog
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I remember when school reformers insisted the biggest problem in education was that teachers didn't come from the best colleges. Bibliography VER...
2 weeks ago
Crazy Normal - the Classroom Exposé | An insider's look at education, teaching, parenting and coming of age.
Billionaires, like the (labor union hating WalMart) Walton Foundation are creating their OWN unions to support publicly funded, private sector, secretive, for profit, autocratic, often cheating, Charter Schools with a goal to destroy public school teachers’ unions and OUR (all the people) transparent, democratic, K-12 Public Schools. I think they want to control what OUR children learn or don’t learn.
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Maurice Cunningham: Reporters Should Raise These Questions With the “National Parents Union”
4 weeks ago
The Jose Vilson
Critical Race Theory Is About You, and All of Us
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Recently, Christina Cross, a Black woman sociologist at Harvard, found her work at the crosshairs of the same person who brought us the bastardization of...
4 weeks ago
cloakinginequity.com/
Grow Your Own Teachers? A BustED: Pencils Podcast
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Julian Vasquez Heilig and Laura Dinehart join Dr. Tim to discuss how Western Michigan University is ‘Growing Their Own’ teachers, without test tubes or sci...
4 weeks ago
Ogo Okoye-Johnson | Blogging About – Quality Education: Past, Present and Future
Happy Easter
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Blessings
4 weeks ago
JD2718 | Education, Math, Teaching, New York, Bronx, Union, Language, Travel
UFT Welfare Fund nest egg – bigger than most nests
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A nest egg. A rainy day fund. A reserve. Back up. We all have some, or would like some. In case things go sideways, a way to pay some bills in the meantime...
5 weeks ago
Education in the Age of Globalization
Focused: Understanding, Negotiating, and Maximizing Your Influence as a School Leader
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INTRODUCTION Focus, focus, and focus! Focus is what this book is about. Here we aim to help school leaders understand what they should focus on and why. We...
1 month ago
GFBrandenburg's Blog
Let’s recall just how bad a president Trump was!
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For the record, concerning Covid:, this is from Quora: ———- President Trump tweeted that 17,000 people died from Swine Flu under Obama. How does this compa...
2 months ago
redqueeninla
March 5, 2024: The time for delay has passed
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It is time to open the ballot sitting on my kitchen counter. Only, the more I learn of politics, the… The post March 5, 2024: The time for delay has pass...
2 months ago
Daily Kos
A Change of Plans
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Last September, in a piece titled Where We Expect To Retire, I informed folks that we were planning to move to Kendal Crosslands Communities, the Crossla...
2 months ago
Education Matters
Dr. Kriznar explains why birthday parties and so much more are now on the chopping block.
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I am kind of grosseed out at her explanation so I am not going to comment now, but I wanted anyone interested to see it. This is her responce after I wr...
2 months ago
Live Long and Prosper | Miscellaneous Ramblings
Wisdom from the Sage of Mount Vernon
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Words of wisdom appropriate to our time. …from George Washington, America’s first President, on President’s Day. (Edited and updated from a previous post) ...
2 months ago
Living in Dialogue
Book Review: “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire”
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By Anthony Cody What impact has Bill Gates had on the world since he launched the most wealthy tax-exempt foundation in the world? We finally have a book t...
2 months ago
Deborah Meier Homepage
We are making a CPESS documentary!
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In 2020, I was approached by Deborah Meier and Jane Andrais and I decided we should document the story of Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS). This ...
2 months ago
NEPC Blog Post of the Day
Radical Eyes for Equity: Media Misreads Reading Science (Again)
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Radical Eyes for Equity: Media Misreads Reading Science (Again) For more than five years, mainstream media has been obsessed with two false but compelling...
3 months ago
NewBlackMan (in Exile)
From Asa to A. Phillip: Nothing But a ‘Sigma’ Man by Mark Anthony Neal
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Richard Avedon, *A. Philip Randolph, Founder, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, New York City, April 8, 1976* *From Asa to A. Phillip: Nothing But a...
3 months ago
Exceptional Delaware
2023 In Review And What’s To Come In 2024
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2023 is almost complete and it was a busy, challenging, rewarding, and fun year. The news of the world was sometimes too much to watch. Countries were dest...
4 months 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.
4 months ago
Opine I will
Volunteer in 2024
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Be the change, volunteer and make the difference! Let’s face it, the world is in turmoil, and divisive politics in our country is threatening our democracy...
4 months ago
I AM AN EDUCATOR | Jesse Hagopian's Lesson Plan for Liberation
Israel’s War on Gaza Is Also a War on History and Education
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Israel's war on Gaza is also a war on children--and just like the attempts to ban discussion of race and gender in U.S. classrooms, Israel aims to censor h...
4 months ago
My Island View
The Sky is Falling, or is it?
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Well, this is the first anniversary of the introduction of Generative AI in the form of ChatGPT to the world of education. Before it was a week old, over o...
5 months 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...
6 months ago
Save Our Schools March
20 Best Mph Programs In New York, NY (2023 Updated)
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20 Best Mph Programs In New York, NY 1. Pace University Rating: (4.2 ) Address: One Pace Plaza, New York, NY 10038... The post 20 Best Mph Programs In...
6 months 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
8 months ago
SOUTH BRONX SCHOOL
Lying Liars of the NYC DOE
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The APPR travails continue. When last I blogged I shared how my principal, XXXXXXXX XXXXX of PS XXX did an end run around me. I was refused to be obser...
9 months 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...
10 months ago
CLASSROOM STRUGGLE | Strategy and Analysis to Defend and Transform Public Education
Metaphors in ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech
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In this article, we will explore the powerful use of metaphors in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” ... Read more
1 year ago
Sam Chaltain
All My New Writing is on Substack
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Come check it out . . . samchaltain.substack.com
1 year ago
Schooling in the Ownership Society
What ever happend to John Deasy, the Man From Gates?
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* Here's an update on Deasy from 2020* By Thomas Ultican 7/29/2020 April 21, the Stockton Unified School District (SUSD) board accepted John Deasy’s let...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Pissed Off
Skin Deep
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She spends so much time on her outward appearance. There is never a hair out of place. Her makeup is perfect and her clothes are stylish and match to ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year ago
Louisiana Educator
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*Defeating the Purpose of Education* *Most people would agree that the primary purpose of education is to prepare children for a good and productive life. ...
1 year 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 certi...
1 year ago
Real Learning CT | Educators Reclaiming the Conversation
The Second Amendment Explained
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1 year ago
Marie Corfield
Abortion: Only For Those Who Need It!
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NOTE: This post contains my opinions on Catholicism based on my experiences as a child in the 1960's and 70's. Take what you like and leave the rest. I m...
1 year 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...
2 years ago
Parents Across America
Hello world!
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! first appeared on Just another WordPress site.
2 years ago
Schoolfinance101's Blog
What can we learn by modeling existing variations in school spending and outcomes? (Reprise)
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There are those in the ed reform world who would tell us that existing public schools and districts are simply inefficient in their use of existing funding...
2 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 →
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Raginghorseblog
On the Edge of Silence
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“There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamen...
2 years ago
educationalchemy | Authored by Morna McDermott-A blog dedicated to democracy, public education, and the power of the imagination to fight corporate greed–if the truth sounds crazy it is because we have become too accustomed to falsehoods
The Howlers of History and How We Must Reclaim the Narrative
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“There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all judgments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignor...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 years ago
Fred Klonsky's blog
I’ve moved.
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I’m on Substack now. Five bucks a month to subscribe.
2 years ago
Jersey Jazzman
On Remote Teaching and Learning In an Ongoing Pandemic
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Some recent stories I've been thinking about (all emphases mine). Tennessee: Gov. Bill Lee’s administration is getting pushback in Memphis on new Tenness...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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 ...
3 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...
3 years ago
NYC Coalition for Educational Justice
CEJ’s Virtual Mayoral Candidate Forum; Racial Justice in Public Schools
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On Thursday, February 18th, over 1,000 students, parents, educators, community members, and activists alike, joined CEJ to hear the mayoral candidates’ vis...
3 years ago
The Edvocate Blog
GA run-offs need your help!
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Extremely important. Volunteer if you can. Thank you if you are already doing so. Out of state opportunities here: Ralph … Continue reading →
3 years ago
Reflections on Teaching
Pandemic Teaching – What’s up?
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Responding to the call from Pocketful of Primary to answer questions about how teaching during the pandemic is going.
3 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...
3 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...
3 years ago
One Flew East
www.job-applications.com
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https://www.job-applications.com/bed-bath-and-beyond-job-application/
3 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.
3 years ago
Daniel Katz, Ph.D. | Supporting public schools and the children they serve
School Year 2020-21: We Are Asking the Wrong Questions
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It is perfectly understandable that many in our country want public school buildings to be open for in person instruction this year. Among the many hardshi...
3 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 ...
3 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 García in her final keynote address to the 2020 NEA Representative Assembly and it’s up...
3 years ago
Seattle Education
A Citizens’ Rebellion 2020
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The United States began to form after the rebellion against the King of England when the settlers in the colonies along the eastern coast reacted to the in...
3 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...
3 years ago
An Urban Teacher's Education
A Fundamental Redesign of Our Schools
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I climbed the hill leading up to one of my favorite coffee shops in Seattle this morning to enjoy a coffee while taking in a phenomenal view of the city o...
3 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...
4 years ago
All Things Education
Thoughts on schooling in the era of COVID-19
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Well, a whole lot has changed since I returned to blogging a month and half ago. In case you didn't notice, and I'm sure everyone reading this did, there's...
4 years ago
Badass Teachers Association
What are You Going to Do when Disaster Capitalism Knocks on the Public-School Door?
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“Schools will be closed until at least April 20, after the upcoming spring break, but could stay closed for significantly longer, Mr. de Blasio said.” Whe...
4 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.
4 years ago
SKrashen
NAEP scores and "the science of reading"
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*Sent to US News. They just informed me that they no longer publish letters to the editor. * *Re: “National reading emergency” November 12* *[https://www...
4 years ago
BustED Pencils
2019 NAEP Scores: Achievement Gap or …?
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Here you go: A ‘Disturbing’ Assessment: Sagging Reading Scores, Particularly for Eighth-Graders, Headline 2019’s Disappointing NAEP Results NAEP 2019: Re...
4 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...
4 years ago
Bob Braun's Ledger
What Cory Booker isn’t telling us about the Newark water crisis.
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BY GUY STERLING Guy Sterling, a longtime resident of Newark and a member of the Newark Water Group, spent almost 30 years as reporter with The Star-Ledger ...
4 years ago
lacetothetop
A Storm is Coming! (…again)
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A new Commissioner will have as much impact on our state ed system as a new meteorologist will have on … Continue reading →
4 years ago
Mother Crusader
JerseyCAN Can't Hide From Opioids Crisis Billionaire Founder
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[image: Image result for jerseycan] NJ Spotlight needs to stop giving space to billionaire-backed corporate reform groups like JerseyCAN. JerseyCAN does n...
4 years ago
Children should not be a number.
Déjà vu: 2019 ELA Assessment: Dear Board of Regents
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Dear Board of Regents, I have copied below an email I sent to you almost a year ago, after the 2018 ELA assessment's computer-based testing failures and mo...
5 years ago
Education Opportunity Network
3/19/2019 – New ‘Our Schools’ Media Project To Report On Privatization Movement
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5 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...
5 years ago
Teachers For Social Justice
Black Lives Matter at Schools National week of Action: Feb 4 - Feb 8
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Join the National Week of Actions for Black Lives Matter at Schools. Starting Monday, February 4th educators in cities across the country will draw closer...
5 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...
5 years ago
Teacher in a Strange Land
13 Things I Learned While Blogging for Education Week
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This is the 500th blog I've written as the Teacher in a Strange Land, for Education Week Teacher. As it turns out, it's also my final blog for EdWeek. Here...
5 years ago
Save Maine Schools – Helping You Navigate Next-Gen Ed Reform from the Great State of Maine
Blockchain: Life on the Ledger
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Originally posted on Wrench in the Gears: I created this video as a follow up to the one I prepared last year on Social Impact Bonds. It is time to examine...
5 years ago
Mike Klonsky...
New York Times piece on '68 Democratic Convention Protest
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‘The Whole World Is Watching’: The 1968 Democratic Convention, 50 Years Later On Aug. 28, 1968, violent clashes in Chicago between demonstrators and the ...
5 years ago
Critical Classrooms, Critical Kids
My Letter to the NYS Board of Regents and Commissioner Elia Regarding ESSA Opt Out Provisions
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commissioner@nysed.gov Regent.cashin@nysed.gov ESSARegComment@nysed.gov Regent.Rosa@nysed.gov Regent.Reyes@nysed.gov Regent.Chin@nysed.gov Regent.Young@n...
5 years ago
Troy LaRaviere's blog – A place to discuss a better school system for all Chicagoans
Corruption on Top of Corruption: How Rahm’s Response to Sexual Abuse of Students Reveals His Core Function
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Rahm Emanuel’s response to the Chicago Tribune investigation that found CPS failed to protect hundreds of students from sexual abuse is cowardly. It is co...
5 years ago
Hip Sacramento – California Lifestyle
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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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