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Education Matters: School Board members in line for huge raises - https://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2021/01/school-board-members-in-line-for-huge.html

Why Students Should Learn To Use Tech Tools http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2021/01/why-students-should-learn-to-use-tech.html

4 signs that food pantries improve the diets of low-income people https://www.salon.com/2021/01/02/4-signs-that-food-pantries-improve-the-diets-of-low-income-people_partner/

Latest Health Research https://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2021/01/02/latest-health-research-148/

Former Students Remember Joe Clark, Educator Who Inspired 'Lean On Me' https://www.npr.org/2021/01/02/952806833/former-students-remember-joe-clark-educator-who-inspired-lean-on-me

Anxiety and depression can affect your learning ability https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/depression-anxiety-learning

Young people are managing relationships and starting new ones. In a pandemic, it’s not easy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/coronavirus-young-relationships-students/2021/01/01/e7211012-408e-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html?tid=ss_tw

Peter Greene: Democrats Need a Major Restart for Education | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-sX7 via @dianeravitch

Nevada: Charter Schools Cashed in on PPP Money | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-sW8 via @dianeravitch

Disney, Pixar and Netflix are teaching your children the wrong messages about pain | Salon.com - https://www.salon.com/2021/01/02/disney-pixar-and-netflix-are-teaching-your-children-the-wrong-messages-about-pain_partner/

From IQ tests and sperm banks to "The Queen’s Gambit": a history of gifted children | Salon.com

by Mike Simpson / now

From IQ tests and sperm banks to "The Queen’s Gambit": a history of gifted children While identifying gifted children has helped some receive needed attention, it has sent us down a dangerous path I n Netflix hit "The Queen's Gambit," we see young orphan Beth Harmon discover her talent for competitive chess. During a game played in the orphanage basement, Harmon's chess tutor, the janitor, tells

Steve Hinnefeld: Indiana Legislators Preparing to Expand Failed Voucher Program | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / now

Indiana Legislators Preparing to Expand Failed Voucher Program Steve Hinnefeld warns that Republican legislators in Indiana are laying the groundwork to expand the state’s failed voucher program. The research on 

Nevada: Charter Schools Cashed in on PPP Money | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 36min

Nevada: Charter Schools Cashed in on PPP Money Last spring, you may recall, the CARES Act included $13.2 billion for public and charter schools. In addition, $660 billion was allocated to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for small businesses and nonprofits that were struggling to survive due to the pandemic. Public schools were not allowed to apply for PPP. However, many charter schools lea

NYC Educator: Today in PTA (Pass Them All)

by Mike Simpson / 36min

Today in PTA (Pass Them All) Yesterday, I got a prescient comment from SC Math Teacher, and I'll repost it here. The first part is a quote from me, but he comes to an inescapable conclusion directly afterward: “The last I heard, the DOE was holding individual teachers responsible this year for NX students. That means that next semester we could be burdened with not only our regular caseload, but

El Paso Teacher, 35, Dies of COVID-19 | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 36min

El Paso Teacher, 35, Dies of COVID-19 Zelene Blancas, who taught in the public schools of El Paso, died of COVID-19 . She was 35. She taught first grade, and she emphasized kindness. Her 2018 video of her children saying goodbye with a hug at the end of each day was viewed more than 22 million times. Blancas tested positive for coronavirus October 20 and days later, she was hospitalized, her bro

States: Ask Biden Administration to Waive Spring 2021 Testing | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

by Mike Simpson / 36min

States: Ask Biden Administration to Waive Spring 2021 Testing This is a school year fraught with quarantine disruption, turnstile attendance, distancing and sanitizing burdens, and spotty internet capabilities. The very idea that most schools and districts could somehow pull off federally-mandated standardized testing in the spring of 2021 and that the testing outcome would evidence anything oth

Private schools pull students away from public schools - Axios

by Mike Simpson / 36min

Private schools pull students away from public schools Private institutions are attracting wealthy families who are frustrated with public schools' flip-flopping on remote and in-person learning. Why it matters: The trend is weakening public schools, which will lose funding as they lose students, and deepening the divide between how rich and poor kids are educated. What's happening: In districts

Mike Klonsky's Blog: Big changes needed if we are to control the global pandemic and open schools here.

by Mike Simpson / 36min

Big changes needed if we are to control the global pandemic and open schools here As we head into the new year, I'm thinking like everyone else, good riddance to Trump and 2020. I've had the words to the old Merle Haggard song, If We Make It Through December , buzzing through my brain. But by yesterday afternoon, I've had reset my expectations to... if we make it through the '20s... NBC reports

Saturday, December 26, 2020 THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it. + TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT

by Mike Simpson / 36min

Dad Gone Wild – Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it. THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it . A 360 DEGREE VIEW by TC Weber / 1d “Investigations, meditations, careers, relationships were much the same, he mused. They failed because no one thought to ask the right question.” ― Eliot Pattison, The Skull Mantra It’s taken 364 days to get here, but we have arrived. T

TEACHER TOM THIS WEEK IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

by Mike Simpson / 36min

Teacher Tom Reflections on This First Day of 2021 93 23h An Education That Emerges From Those Things That Most Affect Us 200+ 1d They Say There are No Stupid Questions. I Beg to Differ. 1K 3d I Know the Secret to Making Your Dreams Come True 100+ 4d Life Itself 2K 5d This Cursed and Blessed Year 81 9d Teacher Tom

SSPI TONY THURMOND: STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

by Mike Simpson / 36min

California Department of Education SSPI TONY THURMOND STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION USDA Foods List and Material Price Report 2021–22 8d The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently published the USDA Foods Available List and the USDA Foods Processor Material Prices for School Year (SY) 2021–22. COVID-19 Guidance Web Page: Updates to FAQs 10d California Departm

THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) #BLM #BLACKLIVESMATTER

by Mike Simpson / 36min

NewBlackMan (in Exile) THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) Food Writer On The Future Of Black-Owned Restaurants In The Bay Area by Mark Anthony Neal / 9h 'NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Justin Phillips , a food writer for the San Francisco Chronicle , about the potential demise of many Black-owned restaurants in the Bay Area.' Viola Davis: The 60 Minutes Interview by Mark Anthony Neal / 9h ' Vio

THIS WEEK Education Research Report

by Mike Simpson / 36min

Education Research Report Computer simulation to the identification of symptoms in children with ADHD by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d The introduction of computer simulation to the identification of symptoms in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has potential to provide an additional objective tool to gauge the presence and severity of behavioral problems, Ohio State Unive

THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

by Mike Simpson / 36min

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 I Created My Own News Aggregator With AllTop – You Can Use Mine Or Create Your Own by Larry Ferlazzo / 9h AllTop has been around awhile. It’s a “news aggregator” – it identifies a number of topics and then creates pages on them with updated stories from different sites specializing in those topics. Th

KEEP UP/ CATCH UP WITH DIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG A site to discuss better education for all #REDFORED #tbats #COVIDVACCINE #newyear #BestOf2020

by Mike Simpson / 36min

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all KEEP UP/ CATCH UP WITH DIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG A site to discuss better education for all Peter Greene: Democrats Need a Major Restart for Education by dianeravitch / 50min You know the old line, “Failure is not an option.” Well, we have federal education policy built on the idea that failure doesn’t matter. Failure is not only an opt

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THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES #REDFORED #tbats #COVIDVACCINE #newyear #BestOf2020

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Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES All Twenty-Eight Annual Education-Related “Best” Lists! | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=114477 on @Larryferlazzo Welcome 2021! Go Away, 2020! | Diane Ravitch's blog - 

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