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'Parents are powerless': Students face being held back after a year of remote learning - POLITICO

THE BLACK SCREAM AND THE AMERICAN DREAM Black people have been screaming forever yet in higher pitches since 2020. Given technological advances, we get to show you our lived experience of pain on camera. You get to see on live footage the murder of our people by some bad apples in blue uniforms. We get to share our own personalized trauma on social media platforms and maybe for once receive empa

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'Parents are powerless': Students face being held back after a year of remote learning Pandemic-related learning loss means some parents are weighing whether their children should repeat a grade. In 18 states, they won’t have a choice. David Scruggs Jr. has spent most of the pandemic at his second-grade son’s side, helping him with virtual learning as their Nashville, Tenn., home became a school

A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007 #tBATs

NewBlackMan (in Exile) NewBlackMan (in Exile) TODAY Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/this-week-with-newblackman-in-exile-blm_17.html Uneasy: Vijay Iyer's New Album by Mark Anthony Neal / 14h " Uneasy is the latest album from pianist, MacArthur fellow, and Harvard professor in the departments of music and African and African Ame

CURMUDGUCATION: A Powerful Call To Teach

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A Powerful Call To Teach Sharif El-Mekki is the founder of the Center for Black Educator Development , a group that's doing important work. He blogs at Philly's 7th Ward , and recent post is worth attention. I suspect that El-Mekki and I disagree on some education issues, but his view of the teaching profession is inspiring and powerful. Here's a bit from the post " Why We Need Black Men (And Wo

Schools Matter: Dear Sen. Bennet: The best way to help "high poverty schools" is to eliminate "high poverty schools."

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Dear Sen. Bennet: The best way to help "high poverty schools" is to eliminate "high poverty schools." Call me excited about the many billions of dollars that Team Biden is planning to invest in new and renewed education initiatives, from pre-K through college. Even more exciting is the total absence (so far) of systemic efforts to bribe and/or extort states to adopt corporate policies favored by

NANCY BAILEY: Will America Invest in Public School Buildings, Finally?

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Will America Invest in Public School Buildings, Finally? Will America Invest in Public School Buildings, Finally? How will the Biden administration manage a public school facelift? Is $100 billion enough? Will communities see a windfall of funding dedicated to this purpose? Will corporate partnerships help? Will Americans see it as an equity issue? Covid-19 showed Americans the importance of publ

Samuel Abrams: Why Does the New York Times Repeatedly Exaggerate the Selectivity of NYC’s Top High schools? | Diane Ravitch's blog

Dismantling the “Science of Reading” and the Harmful Reading Policies in its Wake – radical eyes for equity

Samuel Abrams: Why Does the New York Times Repeatedly Exaggerate the Selectivity of NYC’s Top High schools? Samuel Abrams was a teacher at Beacon High Schools and is now a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. He wrote a few days ago in the Columbia Journalism Review about the insistence by the New York Times that admissions to schools like Beacon are even harder than they are. Anx

Teacher Tom: Eight in Ten Youths Believe the Adults in Their Lives Value Achievement Over Caring for Others

Dismantling the “Science of Reading” and the Harmful Reading Policies in its Wake After emailing me about new reading legislation being proposed in North Carolina—next door to my home state of South Carolina that also has jumped on the “science of reading” bandwagon— Ann Doss Helms of WFAE (NPR, Charlotte, NC) interviewed me by phone. I have given dozens of interviews about education over the la

State of Siege: What the Free State Project Means for New Hampshire’s Public Schools – Have You Heard

Eight in Ten Youths Believe the Adults in Their Lives Value Achievement Over Caring for Others Here's the good news: in a national survey conducted by Harvard University , roughly two-thirds of youth listed kindness as one of their top three values and 64 percent included fairness in their top three. Here's the bad news: Approximately 80 percent of these same kids report that their parents and t

Emails Show Bush-Led Organization’s ALEC-Like Role in State Policymaking - In the Public Interest

State of Siege: What the Free State Project Means for New Hampshire’s Public Schools Two decades ago, the Free State Project announced an audacious plan to make New Hampshire a utopia for libertarians. Now one of their central goals – privatizing education – appears within reach. Have You Heard heads to the Granite State to explore New Hampshire’s shifting political terrain and why what began as

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Foundation for Excellence in Education and Chiefs for Change Records Requests - In the Public Interest Foundation for Excellence in Education and Chiefs for Change Records Requests Emails Show Bush-Led Organization’s ALEC-Like Role in State Policymaking Emails between the Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE), founded and chaired by former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and state education officia

Education Matters: Greene is a fox in the hen house, joins Jeb Bush's anti-public education club

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Greene is a fox in the hen house, joins Jeb Bush's anti-public education club In case you were wondering why Greene had been such a disappointment, it turns out it is by design as she has joined Jeb Bush's Chiefs for Change, a group that pushes corporate reforms, i.e., high stakes testing, punish the teacher evaluations, and scabs as teachers, and privatization, the expansion of charter schools

NYC Public School Parents: The City Council has proposed $250 million for smaller classes next year!

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The City Council has proposed $250 million for smaller classes next year! The NYC Council has now proposed in its preliminary budget response that DOE allocate $250M next year for class size reduction. This amount would be used to hire 2500 new teachers, which could then reduce class size in as many as 10,000 smaller classes citywide, since each new teacher and class creates smaller classes for

FAQ: Why NYC Schools should use infusion of new federal & state funds to lower class size next year | Class Size Matters

2021 Civic Learning Awards Announced - Year 2021 (CA Dept of Education)

FAQ: Why NYC Schools should use infusion of new federal & state funds to lower class size next year Check out the fact sheet here or below. If you support smaller classes, please urge your CEC or community group to support this resolution . Please also sign our petition here . FAQ: Why NYC Schools should use infusion of new federal & state funds to lower class size next year | Class Size Matters

CURMUDGUCATION: Chris Evans (And Partners) Create A Useful Civics Tool

State Superintendent Tony Thurmond Announces 2021 Civic Learning Award Recipients SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond announced today that 32 schools won this year’s Civic Learning Awards, which celebrate public schools’ efforts to engage students in civic learning. This year, the awards emphasize school-based efforts that went uninterrupted despite the pandemic.

I’m Back, Almost! | Diane Ravitch's blog

Chris Evans (And Partners) Create A Useful Civics Tool So this is how you do it. Chris Evans has entered the world of celebrity education support, and he's done it up right. There's a companion post to this one over at Forbes that explains in a little more detail what the site does; in this post, I want to explain why I think Evans and his partners are setting an example for how the rich and fam