The LAUSD Budget Under Covid - LA Progressive

The LAUSD Budget Under Covid - LA Progressive

An “Economy of Care” or of Institutional Protection?

Now we have seen manifest the power of budgets.

In the wake of the profoundly inequitable calamity of Covid19, has grown an international paroxysm that Black Lives Matter. In Los Angeles Mayor Garcetti is calling for “$250 million in cuts from city departments, including the LAPD, … steer[ing] the funds to invest in job programs, health initiatives and other services supporting the Black community and other communities of color.” And since it is the city council that is in charge of the purse, more weighty still is a resolution from Council President Martinez co-introduced with CD10’s Wesson and CD9’s Price instructing identification of least $100m-$150m to be cut specifically from LAPD’s budget.

So it is that a budget is proverbially “a political document”:  what politics are reflected in Superintendent Beutner’s Revised May 2020 Budget for LAUSD?

The teacher’s union board, UTLA, has voted to reallocate school police funding.

So it is that a budget is proverbially “a political document”:  what politics are reflected in Superintendent Beutner’s Revised May 2020 Budget for LAUSD?

A plan to prioritize savings that squeeze individual students, teachers and the service offered by the District, while protecting the core administrative function of the institution itself. Failing to search out or advocate for funding already promised by other institutions and government shifts the burden onto the individuals at the bottom of the totem pole whose labor is dismissed.

Presented revisions

On May 19, 2020 LAUSD’s board of education (BOE) heard from Chief Financial Officer David Hart (video @ 1:34m, slides here).

Following the 3-year (schoolyear) SY 2022-23 budget modified by  CONTINUE READING: The LAUSD Budget Under Covid - LA Progressive

Earl "Butch" Graves Jr.: "I Am Tired...The Pandemic Of Racism Must End" | NewBlackMan (in Exile)

Earl "Butch" Graves Jr.: "I Am Tired...The Pandemic Of Racism Must End" | NewBlackMan (in Exile)

Earl "Butch" Graves Jr.: "I Am Tired...The Pandemic Of Racism Must End"

Black Enterprise CEO: "I Am Tired...The Pandemic Of Racism Must End" 

by Earl "Butch" Graves Jr. | @EarlButchGraves | special to NewBlackMan (in Exile)

Over the past few days, civil unrest has gripped our entire nation. This was due to the unwarranted and senseless murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week by a police officer who placed his knee on the neck of Mr. Floyd for nine minutes as he begged for his life, while three other officers charged to protect and serve, did little - none of them displaying a shred of decency or humanity. It represents the latest, and perhaps the most disturbing, incident of police brutality against an African American man. As such, I feel compelled to share my personal thoughts because I cannot in all good conscience remain silent while the continuation of unchecked violence results in the loss of black lives without regard or consequence. 

I am a proud African American man who loves this country. I have close friends and family of all races, and I pride myself on being measured and fair. I have always tried to view the circumstances of life as "the glass 3/4 full instead of 1/4 empty," but my patience has truly run thin...and now I am tired! 

I am tired of watching innocent black men being targeted with violence at the hands of law enforcement. 

Tired of ignorant bigots taking the law into their own hands and feeling justified to confront black citizens. 

Tired of the media-driven, negative stereotypes that shape the dangerous narrative surrounding young black men. 

Tired of white people calling the police on black people, and weaponizing the police because they are entitled, scared, or distrusting. 

Tired of overlooking the purposeful or passive suppression of talented black professionals in Corporate CONTINUE READING: Earl "Butch" Graves Jr.: "I Am Tired...The Pandemic Of Racism Must End" | NewBlackMan (in Exile)

The American teacher crisis is getting rapidly worse amid coronavirus pandemic

The American teacher crisis is getting rapidly worse amid coronavirus pandemic

The American teacher crisis is getting rapidly worse amid coronavirus pandemic

Tom Rossiter got the official notice on June 1.

The 33-year-old teacher, who taught seventh and eighth grade math at the Rochester City School District in Rochester, New York, was told that he was being let go at the end of the school year. His school district had been struggling with a $150 million budget deficit since December, and the coronavirus pandemic put the final nail in the coffin.

“It’s completely unfair and unjust to take financial problems of adults and put this on our children,” Rossiter said in an interview with Yahoo Finance.

Rossiter’s plight is mirrored across the country. America already had a teacher shortage going into 2020, and the coronavirus pandemic made the issue much, much worse.

‘I’m pretty sure this was unprecedented’

Education jobs accounted for two-thirds of the 585,000 government jobs lost in May, according to the most recent report. In April, 469,000 public school district personnel across the country — K-12 teachers and other school employees — lost their jobs.

In the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, nearly 300,000 jobs were shed from the public education sector, according to one estimate. In two months amid the coronavirus-induced economic crisis of 2020, around 750,000 public school teachers and other school employees in local areas have been laid off, according to one estimate by the American Federation of Teachers.

“I’m pretty sure this was unprecedented,” Michael Madowitz, an economist at the Center for American Progress, told Yahoo Finance. “We’re already past the total state and local job losses of the last recession.” More

And the problem now is that if the federal government does not provide states with the aid that they desperately need, a lot of re-hiring looks unlikely. 

“What’s really scary about this … it took almost a decade for states to make up for their job cuts in the last recession,” Madowitz said. If state and local governments are not bailed out by the federal government, “it’s really hard to see these jobs coming back.” 

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten urged the federal government to provide financial help.

“There are no magic fixes for this economy — only a path to recovery if we keep up the stimulus and investments to fund, rather than forfeit, the future,” Weingarten, leader of the country’s second-largest teachers union, said in a statement. “We urgently need the federal funding...  If we fail to act, essential services will be gutted, schools won't be able to reopen and public employees will stay laid off.”​

Teacher shortages across the country

Even if the state and local governments manage to get back to pre-pandemic employment levels, it’s “still CONTINUE READING: The American teacher crisis is getting rapidly worse amid coronavirus pandemic

"In Solidarity..." A call to action for educators, students, and families - SF PUBLIC SCHOOL MOM

"In Solidarity..." A call to action for educators, students, and families - SF PUBLIC SCHOOL MOM

“In Solidarity…” A call to action for educators, students, and families

I am so inspired by SFUSD educators. This email was shared with me via the principal, Caitlin Boyle, at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, a visual and performing arts-focused high school in SFUSD, and is a great example of what allyship looks like. The letter and list of resources were compiled in partnership with Jyairrah Martin, a rising 12th grader and member of the school’s Black Student Union, and Brandon Brown, the school’s new Spoken Arts instructor and founder of School Yard Rap.

[If you live in San Francisco and would like to show your appreciation and support for Black SFUSD youth, please attend the march students are planning on June 11th, 2020 at 3 PM.]

Now is a time to educate ourselves, speak up, and take action. Please share their letter list of resources as a model for other educators and families.

[If you would like a PDF copy of this document including the resource list, click here.]

A Letter in Solidarity…

Dear Asawa SOTA Community,

In solidarity with the Black students, staff, artists, and caregivers in our community as well as those protesting on the front lines and in their lanes of expertise, we express sadness, urgency, and outrage at the continued violence perpetrated by white agents of power against Black men, women, and children in the United States.  We mourn and we rage with the families of those directly impacted by these recent acts of police and personal violence and rededicate our collective energies to ways this community can support, heal, restore, and empower Asawa SOTA students and families in ways that disrupt the cycle of systemic oppression and provide a new way forward for the next generation.  

A central piece of the work against white supremacy is the recognition and understanding that each individual in our system has a level of privilege and CONTINUE READING: "In Solidarity..." A call to action for educators, students, and families - SF PUBLIC SCHOOL MOM

Teaching kids about racism: Something every parent should do, all the time

Teaching kids about racism: Something every parent should do, all the time

COLUMN: Time for white people to have ‘the talk’ with their kids
Every black parent has numerous, ongoing talks about racism with their kids. Nothing will change until white parents start talking to their kids about racism all the time, too

Every black parent, at some point, has to have “the talk,” the proverbial sit-down where we engage our children in a serious discussion about how black people are treated by police. We explain how to converse with police, how to make eye contact, how or when to show respect, how, when necessary, they must sometimes genuflect to unjust authority in order to protect themselves.

Inevitably, it’s not just one talk. Circumstances force us to have a series of conversations throughout our children’s young lives, because racism is a constant presence.

If you are just having “the talk” with your child for the first time this week to explain the protests they’re seeing on television or outside their windows over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, you have a problem. It probably means you’re not regularly talking with them about current events and they’re not getting a good education about American history in school. It also means you have willfully buried your head in the sand to the stark injustices that disrespect the very notion of our American democracy and the role you may be playing in those injustices by your silence.

In the face of almost daily occurrences of racial violence against black people, there shouldn’t be one talk about police when you’re a parent — of any race. We teach our children every day to help them navigate the CONTINUE READING: Teaching kids about racism: Something every parent should do, all the time

CURMUDGUCATION: PA: Charter Advocacy Chief Booted For Offensive Post

CURMUDGUCATION: PA: Charter Advocacy Chief Booted For Offensive Post

PA: Charter Advocacy Chief Booted For Offensive Post

Ana Luiza Lannes Meyers is known to folks who follow the charter school debates in Pennsylvania as a vocal charter advocate as the executive director of the Pennsylvania Coalition of Public [sic] Charter Schools. But as of yesterday, she is out of a job, one more casualty of emotional blowback from the current Black Lives Matter demonstrations.

Working on her resume

Meyers has previously worked as "Director of Legislative Affairs" for LeadingAge PA (an advocacy group for aging services providers) as well as PA Field Director for Libertarian advocacy group, FreedomWorks. Before that she co-chaired the Kitchen Table Patriots, a Tea Party group in southeastern PA, and before that sales and marketing for the likes of Nickelodeon and American Airlines. Her degrees are in business. In short, she has virtually no background or expertise in education, but does have a long-standing experience in arguing that government services should be privatized. This is not new for PCPCS-- their previous chief's experience was as PR head for Westinghouse. Meyers held the job since March of 2017.

Meyers has been an active voice in opposition to Governor Wolf ever since he put charters on notice that there would be more regulation and less gravy train. Can't limit family choices, can't trap students in failing zip codes, etc, Meyers said. She tried hard to sell the idea that PA charters are CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: PA: Charter Advocacy Chief Booted For Offensive Post

Passing Counterfeit Money and Other Thoughts on Policing | Teacher in a strange land

Passing Counterfeit Money and Other Thoughts on Policing | Teacher in a strange land

Passing Counterfeit Money and Other Thoughts on Policing

Here’s a story about passing counterfeit money:

I was traveling, in Amsterdam, about five years ago. I was nearly out of cash, so I went to an ATM in a modern mall, part of the Centraal Station area, where trains and trams transport passengers from all over the world. I got 100 euros, using my debit card. I did a little tourist-shopping. Then I stopped for a coffee and a croissant, at a Starbucks. The ultimate American thing to do.

When I got to the cashier, I gave him a ten-euro note from the cash I got from the ATM. He passed it through a machine and, in pleasant, Dutch-inflected English, informed me that the bill was counterfeit.

I was stunned—it can’t be, I said. I just got it from an ATM. He smiled, turned the machine toward me. Watch, he said. Then passed the bill under the machine several times, each time registering a bluish light and a red text: COUNTERFEIT. He pulled a pen-like device out from the cash register and ran it over the bill, as well. It was bad money, all right.

Do you have another way to pay? he asked. Preferably not a credit card?

I did. I gave him a handful of coins, change from other purchases, and it was good. He CONTINUE READING: Passing Counterfeit Money and Other Thoughts on Policing | Teacher in a strange land

CURMUDGUCATION: Six Months From Now

CURMUDGUCATION: Six Months From Now

Six Months From Now

I've whittled away at this post for days, which is unusual for me and usually means I'm making things worse, not better. And my first impulse in these days has been to stay quiet and listen, because a national conversation about racism doesn't really need one more white guy's voice. But 1) silence is not an option right now and 2) this all has implications for educators. But I warn you-- if I have a gift for making the complicated clear and simple, it will not be on display here.

I'm not telling you anything new to say that these are challenging times, though we have had times like these before, times when the ranker parts of our society have split open and spilled forth, times when the pain that people usually carry as a part of their daily routine suddenly erupts in roars, times when we have to confront (or in some cases, angrily defend) the stories we tell ourselves about who we are as a people.

In the moment, there is also the roiling clash between the complexity of reality and the reflexive grab for simple stories and explanations, all further complicated because it's during the noisy, difficult times that the worst of us slip out, under cover of chaos and noise, to spread more chaos and noise. Then there's the fear, and sometimes with the fear comes the stupid. There have been too many awful moments, some beautiful moments, some moments that weren't what they seemed.

What happens in the moment matters--how can it not, with so many words, so much action. But will it matter? Will there be a change, or will this moment fade. Is this rumble the kind of noise that comes when tectonic plates, long pressured, suddenly snap past each other to a new configuration, or is the noise of a rubber band, long stretched, snapping back to its original configuration?

Demonstrations and protests matter. They're a way to convey in real and effective ways just how CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: Six Months From Now

NO Television for My Birthday Ride! | The Merrow Report

NO Television for My Birthday Ride! | The Merrow Report

NO Television for My Birthday Ride!

3PM, Monday, June 8:  This morning was a perfect day for my birthday ride, so I called ESPN to discuss plans for live-streaming on ESPN-27, the channel devoted to amateur athletes.  I recorded the conversation.

ESPN:  Good morning, ESPN. How may I help you?

ME: May I speak to the Executive Producer at your ESPN-27 Channel please? I’m calling about the live-streaming of my attempt to bike my age.

ESPN: There is no ESPN-27 channel. We have ESPN, ESPN-2, and ESPN-3. That’s it.l

ME: But I was told……

ESPN: Sir, there’s no such channel.  You’ve been tricked.

ME: Then perhaps ESPN would be interested in live-streaming my effort on ESPN-3.  I know you are desperate for live sporting events.

ESPN: I don’t think we’re that desperate, sir.

ME: It might draw an audience. After all, my effort is sanctioned by ABBA. CONTINUE READING: NO Television for My Birthday Ride! | The Merrow Report

CURMUDGUCATION: No Teachers Teach Average Students

CURMUDGUCATION: No Teachers Teach Average Students

No Teachers Teach Average Students

The average height of the staff here at the Curmudgucation Institute is about 4.5 feet (the Board of Directors really pulls the average down). Yet if you buy clothes that fit a 4.5 foot frame, those clothes will not fit anyone here.

The average guy named Peter Greene has made at least one major film. And yet, here I sit, with no IMDB entry or residual checks coming in for my work.

So here's one reason that a lot of educational research is that it is the findings are about average students. And nobody teaches an average student. Each student is a very specific individual with a specific complex of specific characteristics, strengths, weaknesses, history, etc.

So something like the widely-circulating NWEA "research" (aka "wild-ass guess") about the Covid-19 slide that everybody is kind of expecting to be a major feature of school in the fall. And really, three's no reason that the testing company can't make an edu-WAG; right now, WAG is pretty much all anyone has. But from a classroom teacher perspective, I have to ask what earthly good aa piece of research like that could be. From the classroom perspective, it boils down to, "Each of your CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: No Teachers Teach Average Students

Now is the Time (whether you want it to be, or not) | JD2718

Now is the Time (whether you want it to be, or not) | JD2718

Now is the Time (whether you want it to be, or not)

I attended a NYSUT virtual vigil just now. It was mostly local presidents. The overall thrust was for reform and electing better people, but especially as some hearkened back to the civil rights movement, or to their own personal experiences, there was a current of long-term struggle as well.

Interesting, for me, was Michael Mulgrew, who was brief and sharp – the speech was prepared, and well-prepared. This is not the rambling Mulgrew we see (or hear) at the Delegate Assembly. His opening (and check this out, I’m quoting Mulgrew approvingly) “There is an original sin that stains the soul of our country.” The message was not revolutionary, but a revolutionary message might have started similarly.

More interesting, the comments. Most echoed the speakers, highlighted important points. At first. But then the issue of the police came up. And dominated the comments for a huge chunk of the vigil.

NYSUT did not organize the event to discuss police. But the role of the police, the future of the police, that is what we – and by “we” I mean everyone who is trying to make change – that is what we are CONTINUE READING: Now is the Time (whether you want it to be, or not) | JD2718

UTLA Calls For School Board To Defund The Police (LASPD) – Los Angeles Education Examiner

UTLA Calls For School Board To Defund The Police (LASPD) – Los Angeles Education Examiner

UTLA Calls For School Board To Defund The Police (LASPD)

Yesterday, the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) Board of Directors voted on a motion demanding that the school board de-fund the Los Angeles Schools Police Department (LASPD), the largest school police department in the country. While the full details of the motion and its reach are not public information as of this writing, UTLA has a long history of supporting major reforms in school policing and the Black Lives Matter movement in Los Angeles.

The vote can be understood as support for the Black Lives Matter protests. Concern for the experience of our BIPOC students everywhere – in our schools and on our streets – has taken over the discourse across the country following the murder of George Floyd and the eruption of police brutality in response to protests.

The UTLA is hardly alone in calling for radical changes, or even a complete abolition, of the LASPD. Groups such as the Community Corporation of South Los Angeles, the ACLU, Black Lives Matter, Students Deserve, and the Labor Community Strategy Center (known for projects such as Taking Action Social Justice Clubs in L.A. High Schools and the Bus Riders Union) have been working for change in how middle and high schools mediate behavioral issues with students for years. And that change would include CONTNUE READING: UTLA Calls For School Board To Defund The Police (LASPD) – Los Angeles Education Examiner

Pissed Off: Our Students and the NEW MATH

Pissed Off: Our Students

Our Students and the NEW MATH

Internet learning is not working. I spoke to the dad of a ninth grader today.  The student has two concerned bright parents and a stay at home mom.  The parents  try and try but they can’t get her to do much school work,  her schedule is screwed up.  She is awake at night and then sleeps all day.  The dad told me many of his friends are seeing the same things with their children.

I don’t have an answer.  I can’t see schools going back and they will never be the same.  If kids with concerned, educated parents are not getting education, imagine what is going on with others.  I fear for the future.

Pissed Off: Our Students

Save the date! and please answer our survey on reopening schools | Class Size Matters

Save the date! and please answer our survey on reopening schools | Class Size Matters Save the date! and please answer our survey on reopening schools | A clearinghouse for information on class size & the proven benefits of smaller classes

Save the date! and please answer our survey on reopening schools

June 7, 2020

Dear friends —

Class Size Matters and NYC Kids PAC are holding a conference on Saturday, June 20 from 11 AM to 1 PM called Sharing Ideas & Solutions for Reopening Schools: The Path Forward. The conference will be co-sponsored by CEC 4, CEC 8, CEC 14 and CEC 28. Please save the date!

During this conference, we will seek ideas from parents, guardians, teachers and concerned New Yorkers about the reopening of our schools. If schools reopen this fall, it must be done the right way to ensure health and safety of students and staff and to maximize academic and emotional support. We will present our proposals at the end of the conference to city and state decision-makers.

The Governor and the Mayor have appointed advisory boards on reopening schools, but with few parents or educators as members.

We want to gather ideas from you before the conference, to collect questions, concerns, and suggestions to help frame our discussions. To do so, please fill out our brief survey posted here, no later than Monday June 15 at 5 PM.  
Thanks!

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SPECIAL EDITION PROTEST AND EDUCATION Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

SPECIAL EDITION PROTEST AND EDUCATION

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... 

The latest news and resources in education since 2007

TODAY

“Visions for the Next School Year”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h

Visions for the Next School Year is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators offer suggestions for how to reopen schools in the fall, including highlighting the importance of “outside-of-the-box” thinking and leading with identifying goals first. Here are some excerpts:

YESTERDAY

There Is A Discussion Worth Having About Reading Instruction, But Using The Murder Of George Floyd To Support Your Point Is Not The Way To Do It

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

OpenClipart-Vectors / Pixabay I agree with some of what Natalie Wexler writes – there’s a lot of good stuff in the book, she co-authored, The Writing Revolution , and she makes an important point about the need to help our students learn broad background knowledge to enhance reading comprehension. I’m not as enthusiastic about some of her other stances in the so-called “Reading Wars” (see The Bes

Important Article About The Hmong Community

by Larry Ferlazzo / 16h

The Hmong American community, power, privilege and a place in Asian America seems like a good and important overview of the Hmong community today. As you probably know, there’s been an increased level of coverage of the Hmong because one of the police officers charged in Mr. Floyd’s death is Hmong (see tweets below). I’m adding this post to The Best Websites To Learn About Hmong Culture & History

Father’s Day Is Coming Up – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 16h

AnnaliseArt / Pixabay Father’s Day is on the third Sunday of June. You might be interested in The Best Father’s Day Sites .

Three Good Resources On The Role Of Protests In Social Change

by Larry Ferlazzo / 16h

geralt / Pixabay I’m adding these three new resources to The Best Sites For Learning About Protests In History : What Protests Can Do is from Five Thirty Eight. Other Protests Flare and Fade. Why This Movement Already Seems Different. is from The NY Times. You might also be interested in The Best Posts & Articles On Building Influence & Creating Change.

National Superintendents Organization Estimates The Added Costs Of Reopening Schools & It Looks Bad

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Report: No Way to Reopen Schools Safely Without Federal Bailout is the headline of a new article in U.S. News. It talks about a new report from the School Superintendents Association that estimates that in order to reopen under the CDC guidelines, “the additional expenses for an average school district of about 3,700 students total $1.8 million.” For a district like ours in Sacramento, that could

“Teachers ‘Cannot Stop at Conversations’ About Racism”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Teachers ‘Cannot Stop at Conversations’ About Racism is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Three educators discuss what teachers can do in response to George Floyd’s death, including not stopping at conversations and instead moving to action.

JUN 07

The Best Online Tools For Remote Teaching – Share Your Own

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

geralt / Pixabay Here are my choices for the best online tools for remote teaching. This list is divided into three sections: 1.The tools I used teaching ELLs and my Theory of Knowledge classes this past year and which I expect to continue to use next fall. 2. The tools I plan on using when I teach ELL U.S. History next year. 3. Tools I’m exploring over the summer to determine if I want to use th

Guest Post: “My Year As An ELL Peer Tutor”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Editor’s Note: Elizabeth Venegas is graduating from our school, Luther Burbank High School, this week. She is an amazing student and person. She volunteered as a peer tutor all last summer and in previous summers to help Newcomers, and did the same during the school year – including working as a peer tutor in our virtual daily live classroom. She wrote this guest post. You might also be intereste

Video: Barack & Michelle Obama’s Commencement Addresses Today For High School Graduates

20by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Barack and Michelle Obama gave commencement addresses today as part of Dear Class of 2020 . They were both good, though I think Michelle’s was a bit better and more useful as a teaching tool with students. Here are both of them. Let me know if you disagree! I’m adding this post to The Best Commencement Speeches .

“Four Ways Schools Can Support Teachers to Become ‘Actively Anti-Racist’

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Four Ways Schools Can Support Teachers to Become ‘Actively Anti-Racist’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Three educators share what schools should and should not do to support teachers to become anti-racists, such as lifting up black student voices and bypassing prepackaged “character-building” lessons that don’t address racism. Here are some excerpts:

What Advice Would You Offer For Having Online Asynchronous Class Discussions When Teaching Remotely?

35by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

pencilparker / Pixabay I didn’t really have any asynchronous online discussions this year – my ELL classes met live daily, and my IB Theory Of Knowledge classes focused on preparing and giving live Oral Presentations, as well as writing a final essay. However, there’s no time like the present for preparing for the future! I know many teachers have used Google Classroom to facilitate asynchronous

Research Studies Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

I often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature . By the way, you mig

June 12th Is The World Day Against Child Labor – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

PublicDomainArchive / Pixabay The United Nations has declared June 12th to be The World Day Against Child Labor . You might be interested in The Best Resources For The World Day Against Child Labor .

Helpful Resources For Teaching About George Floyd’s Death

20by Larry Ferlazzo / 2d

Wokandapix / Pixabay I’ve been sharing lots o resources about George Floyd’s murder (see PART SIX: IMPORTANT TWEETS ABOUT THE MURDER OF GEORGE FLOYD ). I thought it would be useful to take the resources from those lists, and new ones, that I think are most useful for 

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