This Is Probably A Good Time To Learn (& Teach) About The Work Of Stacey Abrams & Her Colleagues – Here’s A Good Start | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=114596 on @Larryferlazzo
ACTION ALERT: Delaware Superintendents & Boards MUST NOT Send Students & Staff Into Hybrid Learning Next Monday | Exceptional Delaware - https://wp.me/p4JboV-5KH via @ExcptlDelaware
Connecticut will become the first state to require high schools to offer Black and Latino studies in fall 2022 | KNBR-AF - https://www.knbr.com/?p=819583
Answer Sheet: What Public Education Advocates Want to See in Biden’s Pick to Succeed Betsy DeVos | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/10684 on @NEPCtweet
Why Are Schools Opening When Covid-19 is Surging? Why Are Schools Opening When Covid-19 is Surging? It has become a cruel joke. Shut everything down! Stay home! Cancel the holidays! Close everything! But open schools! Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious diseases expert, told Americans to stay home throughout the holiday season, avoid groups, wash hands, wear masks, and stay so
State’s Poor Pandemic Response Takes Toll on Teachers – Tennessee Education Report RESPONSE TAKES TOLL ON TEACHERS The Tennessee Education Association (TEA) today released the results of a statewide survey of teachers regarding the experience of teaching during the pandemic. According to the report, 74% of teachers rated the state’s handling of the issues surrounding schools and COVID-19 as “poor
The Lives They Lived (personal edition) COVID-19 was responsible for the deaths of hundreds and hundreds of teachers in 2020 , enough alone to make the year an ‘annus horribilis,’ to borrow Queen Elizabeth II’s phrase. But the world of education also lost Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John Lewis, Sir Ken Robinson, Jim Lehrer and Les Crystal of the PBS NewsHour, the Reverend Darius L. Swann, David K. Cohe
NewBlackMan (in Exile) NewBlackMan (in Exile) TODAY Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/this-week-with-newblackman-in-exile-blm.html Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Season 7 of 'Finding Your Roots' by Mark Anthony Neal / 2min 'Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. joins CBS This Morning to discuss his popular PBS series, "Fin
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/2021/01/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos.html This Is Probably A Good Time To Learn (& Teach) About The Work Of Stacey Abr
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Some Questions for 2021 If you are reading this, you might know me. And if you know me, you know I can ask questions that are not really questions. That’s not these. Real questions for the New Year (in the order in which I expect us to learn the answers) November – January: How will the national elections turn out? January 5 – what happens in the Georgia Senate runoffs? 2 Republicans, 2 Democrat
USING DATA AND RESEARCH TO UNLEARN CHAIT’S FALSE OPINION ABOUT CHARTER SCHOOLS In this blog I respond to Chait’s grossly unfounded opinions in the New York Magazine article entitled Unlearning an Answer with data, peer reviewed research and by highlighting the work of scholars who have conducted extensive research about charter schools. I will also recognize when the predominance of the research
What Do We Know about Our Next Education Secretary, Dr. Miguel Cardona? Today Congress will meet to certify the electoral college vote and confirm Joe Biden as our next president. Biden’s election guarantees Betsy DeVos’s exit as Secretary of Education. It looks as though, by nominating Dr. Miguel Cardona, currently Connecticut’s state Commissioner of Education, President-Elect Biden has fulfill
Thinking Beyond Bean Dad: A Reader First, Bean Dad (as he would become known) posted a Twitter thread about teaching his daughter a lesson. The thread was flippant, snarky—and about a child not knowing how to use a can opener. I was, frankly, surprised that Bean Dad took a beating on this because his approach to his child is essentially the foundational belief system in the U.S. about child rear
John Ewing: “Learning Loss” is an Absurd Concept John Ewing, president of Math for America, skewers the concept of “learning loss” in this article in Forbes. I have been a fan of Dr. Ewing ever since I read his article “Mathematical Intimidation: Driven by the Data,” in which he eviscerated the idiotic idea of rating students by the test scores of their students. If you have not read it, you sho
Isn't This Belittling to Children? There was an old hamster wheel in our classroom. Most of the children had no idea what it was, but it was nevertheless an endlessly popular plaything. Someone was forever spinning it or turning it upside down to roll on the floor or otherwise employing it in their games. Over the years, I saw it used as a part of block castles, as a bulldozer in the sensory tab
Desperation, Thy Name Is De Blasio In the face of an exploding epidemic, and in the face of a new more virulent strain, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has decided that quarantine needs to be cut rather than extended. The mayor just decided that rather than quarantine for 14 days, as recommended by CDC, he will cut it to ten, because they said it was allowable. It's remarkable in this day and age to fi
About Teachers4OpenSchools You may have run across a shiny new group on line that is agitating for teachers to be back in the classroom-- Teachers4OpenSchools . The arguments are the usual ones, from the legitimate concern about mental health to the learning loss baloney. There's not much of anything new here, and not the kind of balance we find in a piece like this one . But I'm always curious
A TEACHER’S PREDICTIONS FOR 2021 Some of these predictions are educated guesses that I hope don’t come true, and some may be pipe dreams. Check them out, let me know which ones are off-base, and share your own! You can see the predictions I’ve made in previous years at the end of this post. *The new stimulus package will be a much-needed boost for schools. However, it won’t be sufficient to deal
Poor leadership is destroying the district I want to acknowledge that being a superintendent is undoubtedly a hard job, and the powers that be in Florida often work to undermine public education. That being said, I can’t imagine a superintendent doing worse than Greene. Her leadership is just plain bad, and don’t take my word for it, take the Times Unions. The indifference to the pandemic. Addin
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