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Biden’s school reopening drive fuels fourth surge of pandemic in the US https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/04/06/schl-a06.html
Los Angeles teachers will get child care stipend for young kids https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/04/05/los-angeles-teachers-will-get-child-care-stipend-for-young-kids-1371732
NYC Educator: UFT Executive Board April 5, 2021--We Are Back - http://nyceducator.com/2021/04/uft-executive-board-april-5-2021-we-are.html
Upper elementary students can return to Philadelphia’s public schools later this month https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/5/22368951/hl-upper-elementary-students-can-return-to-philadelphias-public-schools-later-this-month via @ChalkbeatPHL
Homeroom: My Daughter Is Lying to Me About School http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAtlantic/~3/XCcJL_bUgbw/
The Urgency of Vaccinating Kids http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAtlantic/~3/82Z1MOxtYhE/
Inside the Covid-Induced Collapse of American Higher Education - SUNY Albany associate professor Aaron Major takes stock of the academic labor movement and its post-pandemic future. https://inthesetimes.com/article/higher-education-covid-labor-unrest
Arkansas governor vetoes ban on youth transgender care https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/05/arkansas-governor-transgender-care-ban-veto-479062
Texas STAAR faces technical problems, leaving thousands of students unable to access test https://www.texastribune.org/2021/04/06/texas-staar-testing/
Biden Justice Department reverses Trump order -- LGBTQ students now protected by law http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRawStory/~3/UTVCqxj63rI/
Amid 'huge tension,' San Francisco set to formally suspend renaming of public schools http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/npcJ1Dq-ITw/san-francisco-reverse-decision-rename-public-schools
The NPR Student Podcast Challenge: Announcing Our College Winners https://www.npr.org/2021/04/06/984561899/the-npr-student-podcast-challenge-announcing-our-college-winners
COMIC: Teaching Preschoolers While Masked Up During The Pandemic https://www.npr.org/2021/04/06/983605880/comic-teaching-preschoolers-while-masked-up-during-the-pandemic
Standardized tests for NYC students will be ‘opt-in’ this year https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-state-tests-opt-in-20210406-puy56uvmtrdobajit2h4lesfpm-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/new-york/education/
NYC scraps ‘two-case’ COVID school closure rule but doesn’t yet have new policy https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-nyc-scraps-two-case-covid-school-closure-rule-20210405-u362rqsrr5ckzpuzxiuw7pdgle-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/new-york/education/
Anti-Asian attacks at a Philadelphia school led to landmark ruling over a decade ago. Did anything change? https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/4/6/22367983/anti-asian-attacks-in-philadelphia-led-to-landmark-ruling-over-a-decade-ago-did-anything-change
STUDENT VOICE: Here’s why my high school and others must address anti-Asian racism https://hechingerreport.org/student-voice-heres-why-my-high-school-and-others-must-address-anti-asian-racism/
Insolvent insurance? Oklahoma Schools Risk Management Trust could dissolve https://nondoc.com/2021/04/06/oklahoma-schools-risk-management-trust-could-dissolve/ via @nondocmedia
Washington Teachers Union President Killed in Easter Sunday Crash – NBC4 Washington - https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/washington-teachers-union-president-killed-in-easter-sunday-crash-in-maryland/2630111/ via @nbcwashington
Continued Conversations on Consent – Parenting for Liberation - https://wp.me/p7fXox-1P5 on @wordpressdotcom
One small idea in Biden’s infrastructure plan with big benefits: Electric school buses https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2021/4/6/22364385/one-small-idea-in-bidens-infrastructure-plan-with-big-benefits-electric-school-buses
New report examines how COVID has affected public education in Pa. https://www.readingeagle.com/coronavirus/new-report-examines-how-covid-has-affected-public-education-in-pa/article_7e895e0e-8cb7-11eb-a421-b7ce659e4157.html
End the hygiene theater, CDC says - https://www.yahoo.com/news/end-the-hygiene-theater-cdc-says-173440864.html#new_tab on @YahooNews
Teachers' union opposes NYC change to COVID school closure rules - https://wp.me/pb3Qpq-1cuU8 by @nypmetro on @nypost
Majority of Madison students chose to return to in-person learning but online option here to stay | Local Education | madison.com - https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/majority-of-madison-students-chose-to-return-to-in-person-learning-but-online-option-here/article_bddd61d3-fb1e-5b99-97ed-9dc8cd3082be.html#new_tab
In Malden and statewide, mixed emotions as elementary schools resume full-time in-person learning - The Boston Globe - https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/04/06/metro/malden-statewide-mixed-emotions-elementary-schools-resume-full-time-in-person-learning/#new_tab on @BostonGlobe
Florida Education Association ad campaign targets teacher 'paycheck protection' bill - https://wp.me/pcPG06-1KzP by @RenzoDowney on @Fla_Pol
What BYU and Jean Twenge say about online vs. in-class learning - Deseret News - https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/5/22363821/byu-study-with-jean-twenge-says-sleep-helps-mental-health-but-parents-kids-like-in-class-best#new_tab on deseretnews
Adults say yes to the vaccine — for themselves, not their kids - Axios - https://www.axios.com/adults-say-yes-to-the-vaccine-for-themselves-not-their-kids-a59af424-c312-4bcb-b4b2-94f3b88ec3ac.html#new_tab on @axios
Oklahoma Virtual School Finds Nighttime Is The Right Time For Learning - https://www.news9.com/story/606ba506f2ea2205d5e71806/oklahoma-virtual-school-finds-nighttime-is-the-right-time-for-learning-#new_tab
Biden administration announces next steps in overhauling Title IX campus sexual assault rules - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/biden-administration-announces-next-steps-overhauling-title-ix-campus-sexual-n1263113#new_tab by NBCNews on @NBCNews
81% of teachers vaccinated or have appointments, according to union survey - CBS News - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-teachers-81-percent/#new_tab on @CBSPolitics
Big Education Ape: Teacher Tom: Only Compassion Makes Hope Worth Something - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/teacher-tom-only-compassion-makes-hope.html
Big Education Ape: Ending the year with hope | Laura Bradley - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/ending-year-with-hope-laura-bradley.html
Big Education Ape: Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights Launches Comprehensive Review of Title IX Regulations + Secretary Cardona Continues “Help is Here” School Reopening Tour | U.S. Department of Education - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/department-of-educations-office-for.html
How Do Students Catch Up After a Lost Year? - The AtlanticReopening Schools Is the Easy Part Helping students catch up will be a much more difficult task . None of this will be cheap, and after a year of unexpected expenses—laptops for students, facilities upgrades—many districts have exhausted their reserve funds. School-finance experts estimate that districts have lost north of $200 billion during the pandemic. The recently enacted COVID-19 relief bi
Saving the Commons: This I Believe | Diane Ravitch's blogSaving the Commons: This I Believe Privatization of important parts of the public sector is a great scourge of our times. No institution is more fundamental to the American Dream than public education, and it is under assault by powerful and well funded forces. By billionaires who have dreams of lower taxes and libertarians who want to destroy whatever government provides. We must fight privatiz
South Carolina Republicans Seek to Politicize History – radical eyes for equitySouth Carolina Republicans Seek to Politicize History For over 40 years, George Graham Vest served first as a Missouri state Representative, next as a state Senator in the Confederacy, and finally as a U.S. Senator for Missouri from 1879 to 1903. In a speech from August 21, 1891, Vest included a claim about history that has been echoed by many : “In all revolutions the vanquished are the ones wh
A Few Thoughts about Classroom Technology Then and Now | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom PracticeA Few Thoughts about Classroom Technology Then and Now Two decades ago, research I had done on schools and classrooms in Silicon Valley during the 1990s was published as Oversold and Underused: Computers in Classrooms. In 2018, The Flight of a Butterfly or Path of a Bullet , another book researching 41 exemplary Silicon Valley teachers who had integrated technology appeared. Since then, I have v
Nationwide Waiver for CEP Deadlines - Nutrition (CA Dept of Education)Nationwide Waiver for CEP Deadlines Based on the public health emergency due to COVID-19, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) established a nationwide waiver to support the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) while schools are responding to COVID-19. This waiver makes the following adjustments to annual CEP deadlines: CEP Requirement: Data Used to Calcula
West Virginia Passes Sweeping Voucher Bill | Diane Ravitch's blogWest Virginia Passes Sweeping Voucher Bill Republicans in West Virginia passed a dramatic voucher bill that allows people to spend public education funds on almost anything. Governor Jim Justice, a billionaire, signed the bill into law. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Saturday signed into law the bill that school-choice advocates say will implement the nation’s broadest nonpublic school vouche
Memo in opposition to raising the cap on charters or allowing “zombie” charters | Class Size MattersMemo in opposition to raising the cap on charters or allowing “zombie” charters Just heard from a connected source that raising the charter cap and/or reviving the “zombie” charters is still on the table in Albany, so CSM and NYC Kids PAC sent in the following memo in opposition. Hope it’s not true but there have been too many unpleasant surprises in state budgets over the years, and the charter
CURMUDGUCATION: The Book Love FoundationThe Book Love Foundation Penny Kittle teaches freshman composition at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire and has logged a few decades in public school as a reading teacher and literacy coach. She's picked up some NCTE awards, written some books, and generally done pretty well professionally. But for my money, one of the coolest things she has done starts with this story: I stood in a mos
2021 Medley #5 – Vouchers, Testing, and Reading | Live Long and Prosper2021 Medley #5 – Vouchers, Testing, and Reading Vouchers, Testing, and Reading VOUCHERS Scholars show how to challenge voucher discrimination How many ways can we say it? School choice is not about parents choosing the school for their child. It’s about schools choosing which students to allow through their doors. Private schools get to choose their clients. The law may state that private and re
MORE CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON – Dad Gone WildMORE CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON “A leader is best When people barely know he exists Of a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, “We did this ourselves.” ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ch Hope y’all had a great Easter weekend. For us it was much needed opportunity to reconnect with family that we had spent significant time with since the onslaught of the pandemic. B
Russ on Reading: April Is Poetry Month! Here Are Some Poems to EatApril Is Poetry Month! Here Are Some Poems to Eat April is Poetry Month. April is the perfect time for celebrating poetry through read alouds. Actually, any time is the perfect time for reading poetry aloud. Poetry is meant to be read aloud and children love poetry. But April, with its symbols of rebirth, with the daffodils and cherry blossoms blooming and with dormant grass and barren trees com
My Broken Heart | Diane Ravitch's blogMy Broken Heart I was born in 1938. I’m in pretty good health, considering my age. But one of the valves in my heart has a leak. It must be repaired. On April 8, I am having open heart surgery. The surgeon will break open my breastbone to reach my heart, then wire it back together. He assures me I will be fine, but fatigued, when it’s over. I have tried to take it in stride, but it’s hard not to
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THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Monday, April 5, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #openonlywhensafe #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreformBig Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Idaho should not support private schools - https://idahoednews.org/67h2Q via @idahoednews Scholars show how to challenge voucher discrimination – School Matters - https://inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2021/04/05/scholars-
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