In an excellent article, The Hechinger Report finds that many ed tech companies manipulate research findings to show that their products are successful. Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research lays out their research in damning detail. This result isn’t surprising to me. And I can’t really see how it could be surprising to just about anyone. What is
This new video from CBS News provides a good overview, along with images, of what school re-openings look like around the world. I’m adding it to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL .
Free-Photos / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Schools face prospect of layoffs, furloughs as state budget shrinks is from CAL Matters. Reopening Schools in the Context of COVID-19: Health and Safety Guidelines From Other Countries is from The Learning Policy Institute.
The annual Condition of Education from the National Center for Education Statistics has been released. It has tons of info about all things education. And that info includes English Language Learners in Public Schools . The above map is one small slice from the report. I’m adding this post to: The Best Ways To Keep-Up With Current ELL/ESL/EFL News & Research The Best Places To Get Reliable, Valid
Katie Hull and I worked with Ed Week on creating two videos highlighting strategies for encouraging student intrinsic motivation to learn in distance learning. The first one was released last week, and the second one just came out. Here are both (you can see more videos on this topic and others on my video page ).
More Than 900 Children Have Been Expelled Under a Pandemic Border Policy is a depressing article in The New York Times this morning. Anyone who has any degree of surprise about this development can check out The Best Resources For Learning About The Terrible Practice Of Separating Immigrant Parents From Their Children .
I’m adding these new resources to various “Best” lists. You can find links to all of those many lists that relate to race and racism at “Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Teaching & Learning About Race & Racism: How to Develop Culturally Responsive Teaching for Distance Learning is from MindShift. I’m adding it to The Best Resources About “Culturally Responsive Teaching” & “Culturally Sustai
I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 21,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click throug
