THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Friday, January 8, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #COVIDVACCINE #DEVOSRESIGNS

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Teachers Union Burns Betsy DeVos With 2 Memorable Words After Resignation https://www.huffpost.com/entry/betsy-devos-good-riddance_n_5ff7d626c5b66f3f795c708f

DeVos Jumps Ship After Trump Foments Riot, Cites ‘Moral Obligation’ Without Any Irony | Talking Points Memo - https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/devos-jumps-ship-after-trump-foments-riot-cites-moral-obligation-without-any-irony via @TPM

Health director calls for hard 3-week school shutdown in L.A. county amid deadly COVID surge http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/YyMmX1qOpS4/amid-la-covid-surge-ferrer-school-shut-down

Social media users hope Congress takes school shootings seriously after mob storms Capitol - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/social-media-users-hope-congress-takes-school-shootings-seriously-after-n1253315?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma by NBCNews on @NBCNews

‘Good riddance’ and other reactions to resignation of Education Betsy DeVos - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/01/08/good-riddance-other-reaction-education-secretary-betsy-devoss-resignation/

2020 National ESEA Distinguished Schools Announced - Year 2021 (CA Dept of Education) - https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr21/yr21rel01.asp

Fixing Connecticut School Finance: The Time is Now – School Finance 101 - https://wp.me/pojtG-1Th via @SchlFinance101

Choosing Democracy: The Attempted Coup Against Democratic Elections - http://choosingdemocracy.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-attempted-coup-against-democratic.html

DeVos Resigns As Education Secretary, Says, 'Impressionable Children Are Watching' | 89.3 KPCC - https://www.scpr.org/news/2021/01/07/96050/devos-resigns-as-education-secretary-says-impressi/

‘They are running away’: Clyburn blasts DeVos, Chao for resigning without invoking 25th Amendment https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/08/clyburn-devos-chao-resigning-before-invoking-25th-amendment-456454

Paterson regains local control of school district after three decades https://www.njspotlight.com/video/paterson-regains-local-control-of-school-district-after-three-decades/

Lehigh University Revokes President Trump's Honorary Degree https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/08/954883159/lehigh-university-revokes-president-trumps-honorary-degree

What U.S. Educators Think Of Getting A COVID-19 Vaccine https://www.npr.org/2021/01/07/954562167/what-u-s-educators-think-of-getting-a-covid-19-vaccine

NYC teachers educate students about Capitol insurrection https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-teachers-insurrection-lesson-plans-20210107-l3twynxe3vclrjelny2bgnpvhu-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/new-york/education/

'Hateful' Tweet About Stacey Abrams Costs UT-Chattanooga Football Coach His Job https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/coach-fired-stacey-abrams.html

Oklahoma public school enrollment drops significantly https://nondoc.com/2021/01/07/oklahoma-public-school-enrollment-drops-significantly/ via @nondocmedia

How To Talk To Kids About The Riots At The U.S. Capitol https://www.scpr.org/news/2021/01/07/96044/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-the-riots-at-the-u-s-cap/ via @kpcc

DeVos Resigns As Education Secretary, Says, 'Impressionable Children Are Watching' https://www.scpr.org/news/2021/01/07/96050/devos-resigns-as-education-secretary-says-impressi/ via @kpcc

More colleges and universities outsource services to for-profit companies https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/colleges-outsourcing-services/2021/01/07/c3f2ac6a-5135-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html?tid=ss_tw

Jonathan Haidt on the changing culture of college campuses - Big Think - https://bigthink.com/institute-for-humane-studies/jonathan-haidt-campus

Betsy DeVos rips Trump’s rhetoric as ‘unconscionable’ in brutal resignation letter: report https://www.rawstory.com/betsy-devos/

Betsy DeVos receives brutal send-off from teachers — and her own governor https://www.rawstory.com/betsy-devos-2649786777/

NOLA Public Schools will roll out rapid testing; school nurses to receive vaccinations | The Lens https://thelensnola.org/2021/01/07/nola-public-schools-will-roll-out-rapid-testing-school-nurses-to-receive-vaccinations/

Voucher Vultures Face FBI Raid – Tennessee Education Report - http://tnedreport.com/?p=5078 via @TNEdReport

As infections climb, NY avoids closures by shifting metrics - Midland Daily News - https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/As-infections-climb-NY-avoids-closures-by-15853406.php on @StamAdvocate

Teachers across the country work to explain an unforgettable day in American history https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/teachers-students-capitol-riots/2021/01/07/2bb4c8ba-511d-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html?tid=ss_tw

Betsy DeVos, Education Secretary, is Second Cabinet Member to Resign. - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/politics/betsy-devos-resigns.html

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigns, citing violence at the Capitol - POLITICO - https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/07/education-secretary-betsy-devos-resigns-456294

BETSY DEVOS RESIGNS | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog - https://wp.me/p36Q2R-6hc on @wordpressdotcom

OPINION: Confused and angry, young teachers seek guidance on discussing current events with students - The Hechinger Report https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-confused-and-angry-young-teachers-seek-guidance-on-discussing-current-events-with-students/

Teachers change lessons for students after deadly US Capitol siege | GMA - https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/family/story/teachers-change-lessons-students-deadly-us-capitol-siege-75110818#new_tab by @NicoleABCNews on @GMA

TEA appoints conservators to oversee Houston ISD special ed department - HoustonChronicle.com - https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/TEA-appoints-conservators-to-oversee-Houston-ISD-15853910.php on @houstonchron

Declining enrollment, increased absences threaten public school funding | Mississippi Today - https://mississippitoday.org/?p=978614 by @krroyals on @MSTODAYnews

Broward Teachers Union Sues School District Over Return To In-Person Teaching For Medically High Risk Educators https://cbsloc.al/3s02CQK#.X_ipW5-FFU8.twitter

1 in 5 NYC high schoolers received incomplete grades last spring. They have until this month to make up the work. https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2021/1/7/22219009/nyc-high-school-grades-incomplete via @ChalkbeatNY

Moving California teachers to the front of the vaccine line might not be enough to reopen schools - SFChronicle.com - https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Parents-want-California-s-teachers-vaccinated-15853920.php#new_tab on @sfchronicle

Parenting and polling in education's new normal | TheHill - https://thehill.com/node/532934

Janresseger: Public Schools Need the Modest Dollars in Current Fiscal Relief Package, But Addressing Educational Injustice Will Take Much More | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/10701 on @NEPCtweet

‘Good riddance’ and other reactions to resignation of Education Betsy DeVos - The Washington Post

by Mike Simpson / now

‘Good riddance’ and other reactions to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s resignation Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has turned in her resignation , effective Friday, and after four years of her highly controversial tenure, the reaction is coming in thick and fast. DeVos, a Michigan billionaire who called public schools a “dead end” before she became education secretary in 2017, was a hero to co

Mitchell Robinson: Betsy DeVos Resigns | Eclectablog

by Mike Simpson / now

Betsy DeVos Resigns | Eclectablog Betsy DeVos Resigns I wish I could find more satisfaction in something I’ve hoped would happen for 4 years. But as usual, Ms. DeVos did the absolute least she could do (resign), well past the time when it could have made a difference (with 13 days left in her lamest of all duck terms), and is probably only doing it to avoid doing something she doesn’t want to do

Teacher Tom: Unstructured Play Outdoors Should Be the Foundation of Childhood

by Mike Simpson / now

Unstructured Play Outdoors Should Be the Foundation of Childhood The central purpose of every human community that has ever existed is to care for children. As I wrote previously, the only question is "How?" Generally speaking, modern society has answered that question in a way that gives children a raw deal. While it's certainly true that we're good at keeping them alive by historic standards,

2021 Medley #1: Bye, Bye Betsy and other stories | Live Long and Prosper

by Mike Simpson / now

BYE, BYE BETSY Betsy DeVos Resigns I was ready to publish the rest of the articles in this post on Wednesday, but I got sidetracked by the horrible events in Washington D.C. Since then I have paused, while I figured out what I wanted to say. Then, last night, Betsy DeVos resigned… I am against nearly everything DeVos has done during her term as Secretary. She has pushed her agenda of privatizati

New Education Secretary, Dr. Miguel Cardona, Should Not Require Annual Standardized Testing in This COVID-19 School Year | janresseger

by Mike Simpson / now

New Education Secretary, Dr. Miguel Cardona, Should Not Require Annual Standardized Testing in This COVID-19 School Year Last weekend, the NY Times editorialized to demand that President Elect Joe Biden’s new Secretary of Education promptly “clear the wreckage” from Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education. The newspaper is correct to criticize Betsy DeVos’s abandonment of the department’s mission

Americans’ Secular Faith in Schooling (Part 3) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

by Mike Simpson / now

Americans’ Secular Faith in Schooling (Part 3) With Part 3, readers have now seen most of the draft Introduction to my next book. Comments welcomed. For those readers wanting citations, please contact me. Perverse outcomes of school reforms Consider the massive effort by civil rights reformers to desegregate schools between the 1960s and 1980s following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown decision (1

Betsy DeVos Resigns, Citing Trump’s Support for Insurrection | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / now

Betsy DeVos Resigns, Citing Trump’s Support for Insurrection With only a few days left in Trump’s term of office, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos resigned. She says she objected to his rhetoric in inciting the insurrection of his devoted loyalists. This is certainly an anti-climax. DeVos had to clear out anyway, but by resigning now she avoids the painful decision about forcing Trump to resig

CURMUDGUCATION: Betsy DeVos Bails Out

by Mike Simpson / now

Betsy DeVos Bails Out Well, she finally had enough. DeVos blamed Trumpian rhetoric for the riots, called it an "inflection point" for her, and became one more GOP Trump-fluffer to suddenly discover her shock and outrage for exactly the same kind of shit that he's been doing for four years. I mean, there's something deeply disingenuous about watching someone throw gasoline and matches around for

What I Told My Students About Yesterday’s Attempted Trump Coup | gadflyonthewallblog

by Mike Simpson / now

What I Told My Students About Yesterday’s Attempted Trump Coup The moment I had been dreading happened. Student names started popping up on my screen waiting to be admitted into this morning’s first Zoom meeting. What was I going to say to them? Yesterday in Washington, DC, thousands of Trump supporters charged into the Capitol Building at his urging in an attempt to stop Congress from certifyin

NYC Educator: The Chancellor Responds to Current Events

by Mike Simpson / now

The Chancellor Responds to Current Events Dear Colleagues, Like so many other days in the past ten months, yesterday we experienced an alarming and frightening moment that was unprecedented in our lifetimes. And l have to tell you, I was relieved to see the breach of the U.S Capitol, I was absolutely certain that something like this would make you think about something other than my forcing you

Education Matters: Greene just doesn't get it.

by Mike Simpson / now

Greene just doesn't get it Greene just doesn't get it, and please don't take my word for it. Take hers. Greene penned yet another letter to the staff, and in it, she points out how completely tone-deaf she is. Bold is my commentary. Team Duval, As we begin this new year, I am once again calling on you to be the voice of calm and the hand of stability during uncertain times. Our students are cert

Cuomo’s Dishonest Math | JD2718

by Mike Simpson / now

Cuomo’s Dishonest Math Pitcher is getting shelled. “When you going to take him out?!?!” scream the fans. The manager says “when they have more hits than at bats” Huh? He just said he’s never taking the pitcher out. Idiot. And dishonest. Hits are never more than at bats. Why not just say what he means? Repression’s getting bad in a far off country. People ask an NGO when they are getting added to

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/2021/01/this-week-with-newblackman-in-exile-blm.html White Purity, Black Sexuality, and Their Roles in America’s History of Racism: A Conversation with Historians Jane Dailey and Nell Painter by Mark Anthony Neal / 16h 'In her new book, White Fright: T

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/2021/01/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos.html Depressing Quote Of The Day: Teachers At The Capitol Insurrection 22 by Larr

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Betsy DeVos Resigns as Education Secretary - WSJ.com

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Betsy DeVos Resigns as Education Secretary Education Secretary Betsy DeVos submitted her resignation to President Trump on Thursday night, becoming the second member of Mr. Trump's cabinet to resign since pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday. "We should be highlighting and celebrating your Administration's many accomplishments on behalf of the American people," Mrs. DeVos wrote in

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

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Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Valerie Strauss: Growing Number of States Want Waivers from Annual Testing | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-t1u via @dianeravitch Iowa Legislature to consider ‘parental choice’ in requiring in-person learning | 

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