THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #COVIDVACCINE #IMPEACHED #TWICEBig Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES How the New Variant Could Affect Kids and Schools https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/us/how-the-new-variant-could-affect-kids-and-schools.html Ducey says parents should pressure districts to reopen Arizona classrooms - https://ktar.com/?p=3851535 by @DannyShapiro13 on @ktar923 Why Billions In Food Aid Hasn't Gotten To Needy Families htt
Sara Stevenson: Our “Lord of the Flies” Moment | Diane Ravitch's blogSara Stevenson: Our “Lord of the Flies” Moment Sara Stevenson was a middle school teacher and librarian in Austin, Texas, for many years. She wrote this post in response to the current crisis, which reminded her of Lord of the Flies . She begins like this: Several editorialists have compared recent events to the 1954 classic and bane of high school students for decades, The Lord of the Flies by
Another F – Tennessee Education ReportANOTHER F T he Education Law Center recently published its annual analysis of school funding in the states. Once again, Tennessee received a grade of “F” in both funding level and funding effort. I could actually write this exact same story every single year. Tennessee doesn’t adequately fund our schools. The bipartisan group TACIR – Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations –
Hack Education: Behaviorism, Surveillance, and (School) Work | National Education Policy CenterHack Education: Behaviorism, Surveillance, and (School) Work I was a speaker today at the #AgainstSurveillance teach-in , a fundraiser for Ian Linkletter who is being sued by the online test-proctoring software company Proctorio . I am very pleased but also really outraged to be here today to help raise money for Ian Linkletter's defense and, more broadly, to help raise awareness about the dange
Will Public School Budget Cuts Boost Charter Movement? - LA ProgressiveWill Public School Budget Cuts Boost Charter Movement? The Charter Schools Movement Sees Public Schools Preparing for Deep Funding Cuts as a Growth Opportunity Apromotional message on the website of the Minnesota Math and Science Academy (MMSA), a K-12 charter school in Saint Paul, Minnesota, boasts that since the school was founded in 2014, it has been “growing exponentially.” In the span of ju
Biden to ask for tens of billions of dollars to help open schools - The Washington PostBiden, aiming to reopen schools, set to request infusion of cash President-elect Joe Biden will ask Congress for $130 billion to help K-12 schools reopen, plus billions more to implement rapid coronavirus testing in schools, a far more aggressive response than anything lawmakers have approved to date. Another plank of Biden’s proposal, announced Thursday, aims to mount a national vaccination pla
Teacher Tom: The Magnificence of HumansThe Magnificence of Humans As I rounded the corner, I saw her at the end of the block, a woman on roller blades. She spun like a ballet dancer, then started heading my way, her arms swinging to build momentum. With a snap she turned her back toward me, then raised her right leg into an arabesque, toes pointed sharply, one arm over her head, which was, like her raised leg, parallel to the ground.
MLK Jr. Day Reader 2021 – radical eyes for equityMLK Jr. Day Reader 2021 From 1984 until 2002, 18 years, I taught high school English in the town and school where I grew up and graduated, moving into the classroom of my high school English teacher, Lynn Harrill, where I had sat as a student just six years earlier. My first few years were overwhelming and at times terrifying; I taught five different preparations—managing fifteen different textb
Education Matters: Just how bad was the DCPS Covid dashboardJust how bad was the DCPS Covid dashboard So DCPS has changed the dashboard AGAIN. Supposedly to increase transparency. I think anything THIS district does to improve transparency is a good thing, but I wonder why now. It's probably because most people have known the dashboard has been tragically wrong, and this gives them the opportunity to pass the bunch to the DOH. From the Times Union, Wedne
Back By Unpopular Demand! My Kindle E-Book About My Life | Gary Rubinstein's BlogBack By Unpopular Demand! My Kindle E-Book About My Life Anyone who reads this blog knows that I’m a math teacher. Math and teaching are two of my life passions and they are two things that I have some talent for. I would say that I’m a ‘very good’ teacher but merely a ‘good’ mathematician. I’m also a writer. I’ve written 7 books (4 math books, 2 books on teaching, and co-authored 1 children’s b
Biden’s Education Plan Addressed Lagging School Funding: Now with a Democratic Senate Majority, He Needs to Act | janressegerBiden’s Education Plan Addressed Lagging School Funding: Now with a Democratic Senate Majority, He Needs to Act President Elect Joe Biden prioritized public school funding as the center of his education plan during his campaign to be the Democratic nominee for President. Why did he prioritize public school finance and why is it so urgently important in 2021? Here are Jack Schneider and Jennifer
Rebecca Klein: These Textbooks In Thousands Of K-12 Schools Echo Trump’s Talking Points | HuffPostThese Textbooks In Thousands Of K-12 Schools Echo Trump’s Talking Points | HuffPost These Textbooks In Thousands Of K-12 Schools Echo Trump’s Talking Points Their religion-centered, anti-Democrat, anti-science, anti-multicultural message mirrors the Christian nationalism seen at the U.S. Capitol riot. Christian textbooks used in thousands of schools around the country teach that President Barack
A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007Larry 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_9.html A Lot Is Going On! Here’s Everything (Well, ALMOST Everything) You Need Fo
THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Thursday, January 14, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #COVIDVACCINE #IMPEACHED #TWICEBig Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Bill Banning Locked Seclusion and Face-Down Restraints in Illinois Schools Stalls as Lawmakers Run Out of Time http://feeds.propublica.org/link/9499/14215389/illinois-seclusion-restraint-bill-stalls Education Matters: The Duval County school board just doesn't get it - https://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-duval-county-school-b
David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Research | National Education Policy CenterDavid Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing: Do No Harm: Reflections on the Impact of Educational Research This post is a short piece I wrote in 2011 for a special issue of the journal Teacher Education and Practice on “Enhancing Teaching and Learning Through Scholarship.” My one take is that research in education is not necessarily well positioned to enhance education; on the contrary, it
The Riot at the Capitol: Classroom Lessons?* | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom PracticeThe Riot at the Capitol: Classroom Lessons?* In an earlier post , I pointed out the obvious fact that tax-supported public schools were political institutions. Not in the partisan sense of Republican and Democrat but in serving the community in socializing community values in the next generation including respect for and pride in the nation. When taxpayers want their schools to instill core valu
Republicans Usher in the Land Free from the Truth: Free Speech v. Free Markets – radical eyes for equityRepublicans Usher in the Land Free from the Truth: Free Speech v. Free Markets We know of course there’s really no such thing as the “voiceless.” There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. ARUNDHATI ROY: THE 2004 SYDNEY PEACE PRIZE LECTURE Labeled as “surreal” by Emilia Petrarca , Marjorie Taylor Greene (R – Georgia) wore as “censored” face mask while speaking from the
