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

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CPS will reopen next month even if only a fraction of students opt in — and most teachers will be required to return, CEO says - Chicago Sun-Times - https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2020/12/3/22150924/cps-public-school-reopen-in-person-covid-19-remote-janice-jackson#new_tab

AG: Scholarship can go to religious schools - https://oklahoman.com/article/5677547/oklahoma-ag-weighs-in-on-student-discrimination-question#new_tab by @theoklahoman_ on @theoklahoman_

Schools have avoided deep budget cuts. No one’s celebrating. - Chalkbeat - https://www.chalkbeat.org/2020/12/4/22153539/schools-budget-covid-congress#new_tab on chalkbeat

Education Groups Urge CDC to Prioritize Teachers, School Staff for Coronavirus Vaccine | Education News | US News - https://www.usnews.com/news/education-news/articles/2020-12-04/education-groups-urge-cdc-to-prioritize-teachers-school-staff-for-coronavirus-vaccine#new_tab on @USNews

‘If the city is open, why aren’t our schools open?’ MNPS parents rally for in-person learning | WKRN News 2 - https://www.wkrn.com/?p=459895

Male student given in-school suspension for wearing nail polish to Texas high school - https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/male-student-given-school-suspension-wearing-nail-polish-texas-high-n1250110#new_tab by NBCNews on @NBCNews

With teachers hard to find, parents step in as substitutes to keep schools operating - ABC News - https://abcn.ws/3oo70WW via @ABC

More high school seniors skip out on college planning amid COVID-19 https://nypost.com/2020/12/05/more-high-school-seniors-skip-out-on-college-planning-amid-covid-19/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons via @nypost

'Our kids are the sacrifices': Parents push schools to open - https://apnews.com/article/us-news-oswego-distance-learning-coronavirus-pandemic-oregon-bf2cee766e546ebae8773305d09b4b3c#new_tab on @ap

The number of failing Salt Lake City middle and high school students has skyrocketed as all attend classes online - https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2020/12/05/if-you-have-students-salt/#new_tab via @sltrib

New data finds unequal gaps in learning during remote school - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/students-falling-behind/2020/12/06/88d7157a-3665-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html#new_tab

Bay Area parents rally urging education leaders to reopen schools, saying remote learning is a 'cruel joke' - ABC7 San Francisco - https://abc7news.com/education/bay-area-parents-remote-learning-a-cruel-joke/8538198/#new_tab via @abc7newsbayarea

Schools confront 'off the rails' numbers of failing grades - https://apnews.com/article/distance-learning-coronavirus-pandemic-oregon-7fde612c3dbfd2e21fab9673ca49ad89#new_tab on @ap

Ohio Education Association urges districts to recognize need for ‘reset’ after holiday travel in reopening plans - cleveland.com - https://www.cleveland.com/news/2020/12/ohio-education-association-urges-districts-to-recognize-need-for-reset-after-holiday-travel-in-reopening-plans.html#new_tab on @clevelanddotcom

TEA scraps military enlistment from school accountability ratings amid ‘inflated’ data - HoustonChronicle.com - https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/TEA-scraps-military-enlistment-from-15777409.php#new_tab on @houstonchron

School shutdowns are crushing low-income and special-needs students - https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/school-shutdowns-are-crushing-low-income-and-special-needs-students#new_tab on @DCExaminer

Dangerous COVID-19 surge leads to hard shutdown of L.A. public schools

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Dangerous COVID-19 surge leads to hard shutdown of L.A. public schools Los Angeles campuses will shut down completely beginning Thursday for all in-person tutoring and special services, as prospects for fully reopening the nation's second-largest school district recede further into 2021 amid a dangerous coronavirus surge, Supt. Austin Beutner announced Monday. The move immediately affects some 4

ANDRE PERRY: The next education secretary must know about much more than education

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The next education secretary must know about much more than education The next education secretary must know about much more than education Our schools are in crisis. We need Biden to tell us who our new secretary of education will be ASAP In the days after President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, you didn’t have to be inside the beltway to hear whispers of names being floated for cabinet positions —

Teacher Tom: Learning Rules Vs. Intellectual Development and Understanding

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Learning Rules Vs. Intellectual Development and Understanding I've had the opportunity, through this blog and in person, to talk to hundreds of thousands of educators and parents about how our version of progressive, play-based preschool education works. I've shared about creating interesting, safe-enough environments in which children are free to follow their own curiosity, to ask and answer th

Stunningly Oblivious | JD2718

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Stunningly Oblivious On Thursday, November 19, all school buildings (NYC public schools) were closed. Today, December 7, New York City elementary schools buildings are reopening. This is not because the situation has gotten better. It has gotten worse. Much worse. There is a huge wave of COVID moving across the United States. The case rate in NYC was 3% when buildings closed. The case rate today

Wishes from a New York City teacher who happens to be my daughter. – Fred Klonsky

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WISHES FROM A NEW YORK CITY TEACHER WHO HAPPENS TO BE MY DAUGHTER. On my mind are all the NYC elementary school teachers going into classrooms today with only window ventilation on a 35 degree day. I hope you don’t have yet another schedule. I hope if you are also teaching remote students those classes don’t have 50 students in them to balance out the less than 10 you see today. Despite everythi

How to Return to Campus Safely: Test, Then Test Again - The New York Times

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How to Return to Campus Safely: Test, Then Test Again Some colleges are using lessons from the fall to bring back more students in spring This is the Coronavirus Schools Briefing, a guide to the seismic changes in U.S. education that are taking place during the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. The fall semester has been hell for most colleges — canceled classes, dorm

NANCY BAILEY: How Has School Privatization Contributed to Mental Illness in Students Before and During Covid-19?

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How Has School Privatization Contributed to Mental Illness in Students Before and During Covid-19? How Has School Privatization Contributed to Mental Illness in Students Before and During Covid-19? Mental illness in children existed before Covid-19. How many students are struggling with it during the pandemic? How did school privatization contribute to this phenomenon? Before Covid-19 A 2018 surv

CURMUDGUCATION: Donors Choose Monday: Mice

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Donors Choose Monday: Mice I donate locally when I can identify a need, and for a few weeks I've also been donating to teachers across the country on Donors Choose, because it makes me feel slightly less helpless in these crazy days. I've been blogging about it here to encourage you--if you can--to offer some help to someone. Maybe you know of worthy causes or programs local to you. But if you'r

US Export: Failing Schools | Live Long and Prosper

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US Export: Failing Schools Again with the phrase failing schools ! This time it’s in Australia where the New South Wales (NSW) state government has announced that it will intervene in public schools that don’t meet “performance standards.” Here’s a tweet from Pasi Sahlberg who has been working in Australia for the past few years… I’ll give you one guess what the “performance standards” are. Yes,

NewBlackMan (in Exile) TODAY #BLM #BLACKLIVESMATTER

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NewBlackMan (in Exile) NewBlackMan (in Exile) TODAY Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2020/12/this-week-with-newblackman-in-exile.html Artist Titus Kaphar on Depicting Loss and Finding Purpose by Mark Anthony Neal / 14h 'One of the country's hottest artists, Titus Kaphar has long tackled under-representation of minorities in Western art t

Who Is Doing the Work in the Teaching/Learning Dynamic? – radical eyes for equity

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Who Is Doing the Work in the Teaching/Learning Dynamic? The end of a course often challenges my fundamental beliefs as a teacher. Once again, in the final days of my courses when students are allowed and encouraged to revise their major essays as often as possible, I have returned several without responding because the resubmitted essays are mostly the same as the last draft I marked or the stud

CURMUDGUCATION: Distance Learning and Compliance Culture

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Distance Learning and Compliance Culture Compliance culture in the classroom has always, always been a problem. This is the teacher who demands compliance, in fact, grades on compliance. Most folks have a story about That Teacher--the one who wouldn't accept a paper because it was ten minutes late, or who took off a letter grade because the paper had the "wrong" heading on it. For some people, c

Actions Last Week Extend the Student Loan Debt Cliff and Protect DACA | janresseger

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Actions Last Week Extend the Student Loan Debt Cliff and Protect DACA There is a lot to worry about right now—an unhinged President who has given up governing, a divided Congress, a raging pandemic, and, so far at least, Congressional failure to pass an economic relief bill as the COVID-19 recession intensifies. Two developments last week should, however, be seen as hopeful. Both will protect vu

Lily Eskelsen Garcia Pursues US Ed Sec Post | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

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Lily Eskelsen Garcia Pursues US Ed Sec Post As the December 04, 2020, Politico reports , former National Education Association (NEA) president, Lily Eskelsen Garcia, is seriously pursuing President-elect Biden’s nod for next US secretary of education. Eskelsen Garcia earned her BS in elementary education in 1980 and her MEd in instructional technology in 1985, both from the University of Utah. S

CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: So It's Really December Edition (12/6)

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CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: So It's Really December Edition (12/6) So It's Really December Edition Still trying to take care of all the places the cold gets into our house, because apparently the season is serious about things. Still counting down to the magical day when I can go many days at a time without asking, "Well, what has the President done today?" But there are still some good things to read

CURMUDGUCATION: The Jingle Bells Effect And The Canon

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The Jingle Bells Effect And The Canon So, if you need a little something to jumpkick you into the season, here's a playlist challenge for you. Yes, that's roughly 76 minutes of various versions of "Jingle Bells," carefully selected, curated and ordered for your listening pleasure. "Jingle Bells" is a curious song to become a Christmas standard, mostly because it has nothing to do with Christmas

EdAction in Congress December 6, 2020 - Education Votes

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EdAction in Congress December 6, 2020 Democratic leaders push for bipartisan COVID-19 compromise Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) are working toward a bipartisan compromise to address the rampant spread of COVID-19 that is preventing the safe reopening of our schools and our society. The effort took on new urgency earlier this week, as Congress tr

America's children are facing a mental health crisis that no one is talking about | Salon.com

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America's children are facing a mental health crisis that no one is talking about Mental health-related hospital visits for children are way up, as kids’ lives are disrupted by the pandemic With a third wave of COVID-19 infections sweeping the United States and widespread infection around the world, some schools are grappling with how to stay open safely , while others remain shuttered with remo

ANDY SPEARS: Grace – Tennessee Education Report

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Grace – Tennessee Education Report GRACE In response to the responses she received to this post about poverty, school funding, and teacher pay in light of the realities laid bare by COVID-19, MNEA President Amanda Kail posted a follow-up. Here’s what she has to say: What a hard and heavy year. In the fierceness of all the rage and bitterness, I will do my part. I will apologize. If you are a pare

Oklahoma: Governor Stitt Appoints Home-Schooling Anti-Masker to State Board of Education | Diane Ravitch's blog

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Oklahoma: Governor Stitt Appoints Home-Schooling Anti-Masker to State Board of Education Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt kicked his own appointee off the State Board of Education who made the terrible error of trying to claw back millions from a for-profit charter school and supported a mask mandate in all public schools. Gov. Kevin Stitt abruptly replaced one of his own appointees to the Oklahoma

More students got F’s in first term of school year - The Washington Post

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More students than ever got F’s in first term of 2020-21 school year — but are A-F grades fair in a pandemic? Students’ grades for the first period of the 2020-21 academic year are being recorded and we are seeing stories from around the country about an unprecedented rise in F’s. Is anybody surprised? Millions of kids are living through the most disruptive school year of their lives because of

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

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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/2020/12/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos.html Sunday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h tors

Tennessee: Why Do Failed Reforms Survive, Only to Fail Again? | Diane Ravitch's blog

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Tennessee: Why Do Failed Reforms Survive, Only to Fail Again? In 2012, Tennessee created the “Achievement School District” (ASD) and promised that it would catapult the state’s lowest performing schools into high-performing schools. So confident were state leaders that they hired Chris Barbic, who ran a celebrated charter chain in Houston, and he was confident that the state’s weakest schools co

NYC Educator: Sense, Nonsense, and de Blasio's DOE

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Sense, Nonsense, and de Blasio's DOE Things are at a new level now, yet agaon. Every time you think the DOE has outdone itself, it does something else to show you that the last thing was nothing. The NY Post reports that UFT members who don't consent to testing will be removed from payroll . That would be surprising if it weren't for the fact that this was agreed to back in September. While peop

Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Scheider: What Betsy DeVos Accomplished | Diane Ravitch's blog

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Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Scheider: What Betsy DeVos Accomplished Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider have written a valuable new book called A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School. They recently published an opinion article in The New York Times in which they demonstrate the role of Betsy DeVos in the “school reform” movement. They point

My Remote Teaching Tips Videos | Gary Rubinstein's Blog

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My Remote Teaching Tips Videos Maybe the only advantage to teaching remotely is that you can fart anytime you want. Compared to live teaching, remote teaching introduces so many new challenges. I think the biggest challenge is that teachers don’t get to leverage a personal connection with their students. Hearing a pep talk from a teacher in a small square on your screen just doesn’t have the sam

Choosing Democracy: New NEA Leader Fighting Trump

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New Teachers Union Leader Fighting Trump, School Reopening Battles As president, Becky Pringle said her mission is to “lead a movement to reclaim public education as a common good.” She wants to transform the system into one that is racially and socially just and equitable. Becky Pringle, who became president of the National Education Association in September, speaks at a human rights rally duri

Paul Horton: Interrogating European Exceptionalism: The Scientific Revolution - Living in Dialogue

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Interrogating European Exceptionalism: The Scientific Revolution - Living in Dialogue Interrogating European Exceptionalism: The Scientific Revolution By Paul Horton. In the introduction to his widely used introductory text, The Scientific Revolution , Steven Shapin, a professor of the History of Science at Harvard, caused quite a stir in mid 1990s academic and public circles when he provocativel

For Teachers, “Silence of Our Friends” May be Worst Part of Pandemic | gadflyonthewallblog

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For Teachers, “Silence of Our Friends” May be Worst Part of Pandemic “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” -Martin Luther King Jr Teachers want a safe place to work. But in 2020 that is too much to ask. As the global COVID-19 pandemic rages out of control throughout most parts of the United States, teachers all across the country want to be

TOP POSTS THIS WEEK 12/5/20 #REDFORED #tbats #COVID-19 #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #COVIDOUTBREAK #BIDENWINS #TOPBANANAHEADLINES

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Big Education Ape TOP POSTS THIS WEEK 12/5/20 ‘Slaying Goliath’: Diane Ravitch argues in new book that public education advocates have beat back efforts to privatize schools - The Washington Post The real story of New 

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