The New York Times shared the above terrifying statistic today . We already know the impact that out-of-school factors have on student achievement (see The Best Places To Learn What Impact A Teacher (& Outside Factors) Have On Student Achievement ). Pile on this additional economic stress, and the fact that this means many of our high school students will be taking either over-or-under the table
Q&A Collections: Assessment is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts on Assessment (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:
geralt / Pixabay Things are likely to get a bit rough for us teachers, our students, and their families during the upcoming school year. Right now, there are over sixty posts at my Education Week column, including commentaries, videos and infographics from over one-hundred educators sharing their experiences with distance learning. Check them out at School Closures & the Coronavirus Crisis . And,
ractapopulous / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL: Teachers Union OKs Strikes If Schools Reopen Without Safety Measures In Place is from NPR. Did America Set Public Schools Up to Fail? is from New York Magazine. COVID-19 school guidance from Trump and the CDC paints teachers as villains is from NBC News. Influential national teache
Prawny / Pixabay Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Laura Gibbs who, I believe, creates the best teacher resources out there if you want to teach about folktales. I use her “tiny tales” when my Beginning and Intermediate English Language Learners write their own. Laura was kind enough to agree to write about them. I’m adding this post to A Beginning List Of The Best Folklore & Myth Sites .
I’m making a change in the content of the regular feature. In addition to sharing the top five posts that have received the most “hits” in the preceding seven days (though they may have originally been published on an earlier date), I will also include the top five posts that have actually appeared in the past week. Often, these are different posts. You might also be interested in IT’S THE THIRTE
geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : A Small Georgia City Plans to Put Students in Classrooms This Week is from The New York Times. Here’s How Back To School Might Look In The New Normal is from NPR. What Will Schools Do When a Teacher Gets Covid-19? is from The NY Times. Closed cafeterias, ‘recess’ at your desk: School wil
Senator Tom Cotton did teachers everywhere a great service yesterday by making a ridiculous attack on The New York Times “1619 Project” and the fact that some school districts are using it to teach about slavery. You can read about his comments at Sen. Tom Cotton wants to take ‘The 1619 Project’ out of classrooms. His efforts have kept it in the spotlight. Now, we just have to introduce the Proje
JamesDeMers / Pixabay The Korean War began 70 years ago on June 25, 1950. You might be interested in The Best Sites For Learning About The Korean War .
