THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES #REDFORED #tbats #COVID-19 #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #COVIDOUTBREAK #BIDENWINS #46

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What ‘backlash’ against Black progress really means: A lesson on race from Eddie Glaude’s new book - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/12/04/what-backlash-against-black-progress-really-means-lesson-race-eddie-glaudes-new-book/

More than 100,000 NYC students were homeless last year: report - New York Daily News - https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-homeless-students-nyc-20201203-qmutdgzrx5av7brtonbbstn3rq-story.html via @nydailynews

Some NJ school districts fight to keep in-person instruction | Video | NJ Spotlight News - https://www.njspotlight.com/video/some-nj-school-districts-fight-to-keep-in-person-instruction/ via @njspotlight

How to connect with English Language Learners amid the pandemic - https://hechingerreport.org/?p=75778 via @hechingerreport

Montgomery County schools report big spike in failing grades - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/montgomery-county-failing-grades/2020/12/03/913affd0-34fb-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_local-education

Virginia schools plan gradual reopening as evidence of online learning gap piles up - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/virginia-schools-plan-gradual-reopening-as-evidence-of-online-learning-gap-piles-up/2020/12/03/a4f5d742-35a6-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_local-education

Biden Might Please the K-12 World by Picking an Education Secretary From Outside It http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2020/12/biden-education-secretary-college-university.html?cmp=soc-twitter-shr via @educationweek

Over 1,000 Educators Urge Biden to Pick Kumashiro for Education​ | Bill Ayers - https://wp.me/p3AjC-Qy on @wordpressdotcom

Nearly half of NOLA Public Schools campuses have a COVID-19 case, 839 quarantining | The Lens https://thelensnola.org/2020/12/03/nearly-half-of-nola-public-schools-campuses-have-a-covid-19-case-839-quarantining/

Texas teachers, school staff want coronavirus vaccine priority | The Texas Tribune - https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/03/texas-teachers-coronavirus-vaccine/ by @StacyFernandezB on @TexasTribune

Joe Biden transition: President-elect walking a tightrope as rival Democratic factions vie for plum posts | MEAWW - https://meaww.com/tension-joe-biden-transition-as-competition-intensifies-for-top-posts

COVID-19 in Indiana: Teachers could be in second group for the vaccine - https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2020/12/03/covid-19-indiana-teachers-could-second-group-vaccine/3807466001/ via @indystar

Randi Weingarten: Always thought we could reopen schools with 'safeguards' https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/randi-weingarten-always-thought-we-could-reopen-schools-with-safeguards-97066565987 via @msnbc

Teachers should be a priority for Covid vaccines, unions and others say - POLITICO - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/03/covid-vaccine-teachers-union-442780

DeLauro to chair House Appropriations Committee - https://wp.me/pcgSwD-Hcf

Lamar stands firm in his last days in the Senate - POLITICO - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/04/lamar-alexander-retiring-senate-442699

Mustang High School launching in-school quarantine pilot program https://nondoc.com/2020/12/03/mustang-high-school-launching-in-school-quarantine-pilot/ via @nondocmedia

California lawsuit charges ‘inequitable’ distance learning; Chancellor Tim White’s exit interview | EdSource - https://edsource.org/?p=644606 on @edsource

Stamped (For Kids): A New Adaptation of the Bestseller Will Provide 'an Antiracist Building Block for Children' https://www.theroot.com/stamped-for-kids-a-new-adaptation-of-the-bestseller-1845807814

Reopening Schools Before a Children’s Vaccine - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/us/children-vaccine-teachers-schools-reopen-coronavirus.html

Illinois schools are not COVID-19 superspreaders, data shows - Chicago Sun-Times - https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2020/12/3/22151522/illinois-schools-public-covid-19-superspreaders-cps-coronavirus-reopen#new_tab

NYC is home to more than 111,000 homeless students, new data shows - Chalkbeat New York - https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2020/12/3/22151208/nyc-is-home-to-more-than-111000-homeless-students-new-data-shows#new_tab on chalkbeat

Mandatory "White Privilege" Training for San Diego Teachers - Christopher F. Rufo - https://christopherrufo.com/?p=863

Schools or bars? How nations rank education in pandemic priorities. - CSMonitor.com - https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2020/1203/Bars-or-schools-How-nations-rank-education-in-pandemic-priorities#new_tab on @csmonitor

Newark schools spend millions on safety supplies in hopes of reopening - Chalkbeat Newark - https://newark.chalkbeat.org/2020/12/3/22150930/newark-schools-safety-supplies-covid#new_tab on chalkbeat

California school district: Boy killed by bullies died due to own negligence - https://bayareane.ws/33LEKG5 on @mercnews

As COVID-19 Continues, Classroom Learning Gaps Between Haves And Have-Nots Are Getting Wider | HuffPost - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/covid-19-achievement-gaps-schools_n_5fc7d280c5b6f3fe597247e1#new_tab on @HuffPostPol

We Are All Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf | Teacher in a strange land

Big Education Ape / 38min

We Are All Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf I just finished reading A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School , by Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider . Berkshire and Schneider are co-hosts of the podcast Have You Heard , which is the best $2 I spend every month—and, as journalist and historian, both bring interesting perspectives to the ongoing di

CURMUDGUCATION: Does Your School Suffer From Advanced Testivitis

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Does Your School Suffer From Advanced Testivitis In some quarters we seem to have cycled back around to the old argument that the Big Standardized Test provides an assortment of necessary data with no actual downside, so 

Ex-teacher’s union boss makes play to be Biden’s Education chief - POLITICO

by Mike Simpson / 41min

Ex-teacher’s union boss makes play to be Biden’s Education chief Lily Eskelsen García is courting key Hispanic groups and even GOP senators. The former president of the nation's largest teachers union is working to lock up support from Republican senators and Hispanic leaders in her bid to be picked as Education secretary, according to officials familiar with the talks. Lily Eskelsen García is e

"Bye-bye, Betsy DeVos. You won't be missed," says Sanders to billionaire education secretary | Salon.com

by Mike Simpson / 41min

"Bye-bye, Betsy DeVos. You won't be missed," says Sanders to billionaire education secretary Sanders calls DeVos "the worst education secretary in the history of America" as she attacks tuition-free college Sen. Bernie Sanders late Tuesday called Betsy DeVos "the worst education secretary in the history of America" and made abundantly clear that he's not mourning her imminent departure after the

Teacher Tom: False Beliefs

by Mike Simpson / 41min

False Beliefs It's not just possible, but likely, that for most of us, most of the time, we possess the necessary intelligence, but are hindered by a false belief. For instance, most physicists have given up on the reality of the existence of space and time, yet we've lived our entire lives convinced that spacetime exists. Indeed, we can't even conceive of it, any more than we can envision a col

Bob Shepherd: The Standardized Testing Hoax | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 41min

Bob Shepherd: The Standardized Testing Hoax Bob Shepherd, a frequent commenter here, has been a curriculum writer, as assessment developer, a publisher, and a classroom tea her. As frequent readers of this log know, he is also a polymath, with a broad, nearly encyclopedic range of knowledge. In this essential post , he explains why standardized testing is invalid and useless for accountability p

A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

by Mike Simpson / 41min

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007 - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2020/11/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos_28.html Friday’s Must-Read Articles & Must-Watch Videos On School Closures by Lar

Will the State Senate Punish Ohio’s 1.6 Million Public School Students by Letting School Funding Reform Die? | janresseger

by Mike Simpson / 2h

Will the State Senate Punish Ohio’s 1.6 Million Public School Students by Letting School Funding Reform Die? The Ohio House Finance Committee voted unanimously (32-0) on Wednesday to refer Substitute House Bill 305, the proposal for a new Fair School Funding Formula, to the full Ohio House for approval. And late yesterday afternoon, t he Ohio House of Representatives passed the bill by huge marg

5 Things We've Learned About Virtual School In 2020 | 89.3 KPCC

by Mike Simpson / 2h

5 Things We've Learned About Virtual School In 2020 Deborah Rosenthal starts her virtual kindergarten class on Zoom every morning with a song — today, it's the Spanish version of, "If You're Happy and You Know It." Her students clap along. There's a greeting from the class mascot (a dragon), yoga, meditation and then some practice with letter sounds: "Oso, oso, O, O, O". Rosenthal teaches Spanis

Jersey Jazzman: New Jersey's School COVID-19 Operating Plans: Still Racially Biased, Still Inadequately Funded For Many Students

by Mike Simpson / 2h

New Jersey's School COVID-19 Operating Plans: Still Racially Biased, Still Inadequately Funded For Many Students Earlier this year , I posted about the racial inequities in New Jersey's school reopening plans, which were all affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Following that blog post, I used some updated data, refined my analysis a bit, and wrote about it over at the NJPP website . In both of th

Beware of Fake Colleges. Learn to Recognize Them. | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

by Mike Simpson / 2h

Beware of Fake Colleges. Learn to Recognize Them. My seniors are in the process of considering postsecondary education, and given the proliferation of fraudulent sites purporting to offer postsecondary degrees (and the reality that online education is increasingly attractive during a pandemic), it is important for graduates and their parents to know identifiers of potentially fraudulent or other

Register for the California STEAM Symposium + New Off-Site Monitoring Best Practices Fact Sheets - Year 2020 (CA Dept of Education)

by Mike Simpson / 2h

Register for the California STEAM Symposium - Year 2020 (CA Dept of Education) #CASTEAM20 Keynote Speakers and Early Registration Prizes Announced! New Off-Site Monitoring Best Practices Fact Sheets - Nutrition (CA Dept of Education) - https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/newoffsitemonfactsheet.asp REDWOOD CITY—Give yourself the gifts of community, inspiration, and revitalization by joining us at this ye

NYC Educator: What Parents Need Now Are Threats, Says Mayor

by Mike Simpson / 2h

What Parents Need Now Are Threats, Says Mayor Given that students can't fail, don't have to hand in work, and are given an extra year to catch up on classes, it's odd to see Mayor de Blasio out there making demands of parents. The mayor is eager to get some of his woefully overcrowded schools open five days a week for the 35% of city students who've opted into live education. So he's saying if y

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THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES #REDFORED #tbats #COVID-19 #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #COVIDOUTBREAK #BIDENWINS #46

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Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Continuous improvement: Rethink how we measure student progress - https://hechingerreport.org/?p=75771 via @hechingerreport Betsy DeVos 

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