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Tuesday, August 24, 2021

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The Top Banana: Today's Education Headlines | Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/The-Top-Banana-Todays-Education-Headlines-730208504396249



DIY Air Filters For Classrooms? Experts Are Enthusiastic — And A Citizen Scientist Makes It Easy - https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2021/08/17/diy-air-filters-for-classrooms-experts-are-enthusiastic-and-a-citizen-scientist-makes-it-easy


School Finance 101: Charter Schooling in the Post-Espinoza & Fulton Era | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/11021 on @NEPCtweet


CURMUDGUCATION: Jeb Bush Gets It Wrong - http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2021/08/jeb-bush-gets-it-wrong.html


Individual Behavior and Community Safety: Cycling Edition – radical eyes for equity - https://wp.me/p2GmBR-a4t via @plthomasEdD


POLITICS OR VIRTUE? – Dad Gone Wild - https://wp.me/p4d08y-2R7 via @norinrad10


Saint Louis School Board Stalls Privatization Agenda | tultican - https://wp.me/p2txw0-16F on @wordpressdotcom


Masks,Vaccinations, and Opening Schools: Decisions amid a Culture War (Part 2) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - https://wp.me/pBm7c-8g2 via @CubanLarry


Pasadena, California, School Board Endorses High Standard for Vaccinations | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-uDK via @dianeravitch


Moving from “All Students Must” to “Each Student Deserves” – radical eyes for equity - https://wp.me/p2GmBR-a4J via @plthomasEdD


Philanthropy Is A Part Of The Black Legacy - Philly's 7th Ward - https://wp.me/p7sbg2-z1


New Guidance Reaffirms Importance of Full Implementation of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic | U.S. Department of Education - https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/new-guidance-reaffirms-importance-full-implementation-individuals-disabilities-education-act-amidst-covid-19-pandemic


NEA Head Demands More Lockdowns and Masks, Defends Anti-Vaccine Teachers - Capital Research Center - https://capitalresearch.org/?p=28778 on @capitalresearch


Expect National Vaccine Mandate for Teachers, AFT President Randi Weingarten Says: Video - Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-08-23/aft-president-expects-national-vaccine-mandate-for-teachers-video on @business


Teacher Tom: "Our Only True Wealth And Salvation" - http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2021/08/our-only-true-wealth-and-salvation.html


Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Downsizing School Reform After the Pandemic | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/11022 on @NEPCtweet


Discriminatory Enrollment Practices Are Pervasive In Charter Schools | Dissident Voice - https://dissidentvoice.org/?p=120277


Children Are Currently Required to Take Many Vaccines | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-uCS via @dianeravitch


NIH director: Vaccine approval for kids unlikely before late 2021 https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/24/vaccine-approval-kids-506750

James Loewen, Author Of 'Lies My Teacher Told Me,' Dies At 79 : NPR - https://www.npr.org/2021/08/23/1030442282/james-loewen-author-of-lies-my-teacher-told-me-dies-at-79?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr on @NPR

“I wanted to teach differently than I had been taught”: How some Texas educators practice anti-racist teaching https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/24/texas-schools-critical-race-theory-teaching

Texas' ban on critical race theory in schools proves the GOP still doesn't understand MLK's message - https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/texas-ban-critical-race-theory-schools-proves-gop-still-doesn-n1271101 by MSNBC on @MSNBC

George Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation (John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress) - https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/GW&smallpoxinoculation.html

Gary B. Nash, 88, Dies; Drew Ire for Trying to Update History Education - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/21/education/gary-b-nash-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare on @nytimes

Mike Klonsky's Blog: Why WHO wants us to forego booster shots - http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2021/08/why-who-wants-us-to-forego-booster-shots.html

Philly City Council members back call for more student COVID testing  - Chalkbeat Philadelphia - https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/8/23/22638648/most-city-council-members-back-philly-teachers-unions-call-for-wider-student-covid-testing on chalkbeat

ATRs Are About to Get Screwed - http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2021/08/atrs-are-about-to-get-screwed.html

What Will Delta Mean For the School Year? - The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/08/what-will-delta-mean-school-year/619873/

Why Parents Kept Their Kids Home From School http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAtlantic/~3/hj1mRiqMp4Q/

How 7 governors used American Rescue Plan funding the right way https://educationvotes.nea.org/?p=49554#.YSUKQfeYs2s.twitter via @EdVotes

NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/ via @NewBlackMan

AFT Endorsement of Shuler Viewed As Possible Long-Term Position | News of the Week | thechiefleader.com - https://thechiefleader.com/news/news_of_the_week/aft-endorsement-of-shuler-viewed-as-possible-long-term-position/article_e467e33a-0133-11ec-9655-af5a74840bfa.html on @thechiefleader

The Topic Of Masks In Schools Is Polarizing Some Parents To The Point Of Violence https://www.kosu.org/education/2021-08-20/the-topic-of-masks-in-schools-is-polarizing-some-parents-to-the-point-of-violence

Debate over mask mandates in schools continues as COVID-19 vaccination rates increase among teens - MarketWatch - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/debate-over-mask-mandates-in-schools-continues-as-covid-19-vaccination-rates-increase-among-teens-11629471237 by @jaimy_lee on @marketwatch

Teachers' Unions, Doctors Agree: Vaccines, Masks Crucial for Return-to-School | Health News | US News - https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-08-23/teachers-unions-doctors-agree-vaccines-masks-crucial-for-return-to-school on @USNews

NYSUT, NYS American Academy of Pediatrics Highlight Importance of All Students Returning to School In Person http://yonkerstimes.com/nysut-nys-american-academy-of-pediatrics-highlight-importance-of-all-students-returning-to-school-in-person/ via @Yonkers Times

Why National Teachers Unions Won’t Require Vaccine Mandates | Time - https://time.com/6091623/teachers-unions-vaccine-mandate/ on @TIME

'Somebody Had to Do It': Black Superintendent Challenges Mask Mandate Prohibition https://www.theroot.com/somebody-had-to-do-it-black-superintendent-challenges-1847539000

New Orleans schools report 453 cases and 4,657 quarantines among students, staff https://thelensnola.org/2021/08/23/new-orleans-schools-report-453-cases-and-4657-quarantines-among-students-staff/

Universities are finally acknowledging their complicity in slavery, but they must offer reparations, too https://hechingerreport.org/universities-are-finally-acknowledging-their-complicity-in-slavery-but-they-must-offer-reparations-too/

College life is back and loaded with COVID rules as students return to campuses http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/yfABphjvwIU/college-life-is-loaded-with-rules-as-tens-of-thousands-of-students-return-to-usc-cal-state

1,893 L.A. students, staff tested positive for coronavirus last week, group reports http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/g68kQDhM51s/frustrated-with-lausds-covid-19-reporting-system-a-parent-group-creates-their-own

District Partnerships with DonorsChoose - https://www.donorschoose.org/districtpartners

Tuesday’s New Articles & Videos On School Reopenings | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=120246 on @Larryferlazzo

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ on @Larryferlazzo

Fine Print: How health and safety guidelines for schools have been revised https://www.njspotlight.com/2021/08/health-safety-social-distancing-masks-nj-guidelines-schools-revised/

Murphy orders vaccinations for teachers, state employees https://www.njspotlight.com/video/murphy-orders-vaccinations-for-teachers-state-employees/

NJ’s teacher shortage adds to list of concerns in return to in-person learning https://www.njspotlight.com/video/njs-teacher-shortage-adds-to-list-of-concerns-in-return-to-in-person-learning/

Mayor de Blasio announces vaccine mandate for all NYC public schools staff https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-schools-vax-mandate-20210823-4oszhp6nfnbh7bexjftqflnhai-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/new-york/education/

The Delta Variant Meets ‘Open Schools Now’ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/obrag/IrDB/~3/Dc8XrKIcvYk/

COVID safety tops Philly students’ concerns before return to school: ‘I’m a little nervous’ https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/8/23/22638541/covid-safety-tops-philly-students-concerns-before-return-to-school-im-a-little-nervous

Vaccine mandates ordered in New York City, New Jersey schools as masking battle escalates in Florida https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/08/23/schools-open-vaccine-mandate-mask/

Education Research Report: Impact of Professional Development Incentives for Early Childhood Education Workforce - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2021/08/impact-of-professional-development.html

Will NJ teachers have to be the "mask police?" - https://nj1015.com/will-nj-teachers-have-to-be-the-mask-police/#new_tab

Dallas looking for 12,000 students who didn’t show up to school - https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2021/08/23/dallas-looking-for-thousands-of-students-who-didnt-show-up/#new_tab via @dallasnews

Many School Districts Keep Covid-19 Closure Thresholds Flexible - WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/many-school-districts-keep-covid-19-closure-thresholds-flexible-11629720000#new_tab by @chapmanreports on @WSJ

Covid in the Schools: Too Much Caution Will Hurt Children - Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-20/covid-in-the-schools-too-much-caution-will-hurt-children#new_tab on @bopinion

JCPS: Student-teacher altercation at Louisville school under review - https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/education/2021/08/23/jcps-marion-c-moore-school-teacher-student-fight-video/8245930002/#new_tab via @courierjournal

Chicago Police To Keep Officers In Schools That Rejected Them | WBEZ Chicago - https://www.wbez.org/stories/chicago-police-to-continue-sending-two-officers-to-schools-that-voted-to-have-just-one/ef3a89c3-434b-490d-b226-e7357d2b6915

Florida school mask mandate power struggle goes before judge - https://apnews.com/article/health-florida-coronavirus-pandemic-1bdc3de57aa418a6b65a89f29bae3d1f#new_tab on @ap

Many small districts complain California shorted their funding during the pandemic | EdSource - https://edsource.org/?p=660083 on @edsource

Masks, sex ed, CRT turn sleepy Nebraska school board meetings into culture war battlegrounds | State and regional news | siouxcityjournal.com - https://siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/masks-sex-ed-crt-turn-sleepy-nebraska-school-board-meetings-into-culture-war-battlegrounds/article_34f0407c-be10-5773-97a8-11c7c9cac7b1.html#new_tab on @scj

State puts 51 school districts on probation for not following mask mandate | Illinois | thecentersquare.com - https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/state-puts-51-school-districts-on-probation-for-not-following-mask-mandate/article_0cd4d288-0440-11ec-9400-175daf6c6ae9.html#new_tab on @thecentersquare

Report: Homeless students are undercounted and underserved in Detroit. Schools struggle to find them. https://detroit.chalkbeat.org/2021/8/23/22638418/homeless-students-undercount-detroit-schools-report-university-michigan-poverty via @ChalkbeatDET

Utah parents sue state for banning school districts from enacting mask mandates - https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2021/08/23/utah-parents-sue-state/#new_tab by https://www.facebook.com/saltlaketribune on @sltrib

Park Slope school lost a third of its students since pandemic: principal - https://wp.me/pb3Qpq-1iCmQ by @nypmetro on @nypost

Lawmakers continue probe of critical race theory in Missouri schools despite results of district survey https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/lawmakers-continue-probe-of-critical-race-theory-in-missouri-schools-despite-results-of-district-survey/

Online enrollment surges at CCSD in early days of school year | Las Vegas Review-Journal - https://wp.me/p8qdWm-ab4j on @reviewjournal

Millennial Money: Pandemic spurs school finance courses - https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-personal-finance-9c8ae5fd1cd69809cbb829fdb99e9041#new_tab on @ap

ACLU sues South Carolina over mask mandate ban | wltx.com - https://www.wltx.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/aclu-sues-state-of-south-carolina-over-mask-mandate-ban/101-97694dae-b987-4ef2-a29f-7471dc81e99d#new_tab on wltx

Joe Biden Tells Parents to Have Children Masked Whenever They Are Outside the Home - https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-tells-parents-have-children-masked-whenever-they-are-outside-home-1622362#new_tab on @newsweek

RI teachers union OKs records release in fight with SK school department | WPRI.com - https://www.wpri.com/?p=977719

Grade inflation in high school is rampant. Am I part of the problem? - https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2021/08/24/class-grade-inflation-high-school-teacher/8185250002/#new_tab via @usatoday

Perspective: The multi-million dollar pandemic mistake schools are reluctant to fix https://www.deseret.com/2021/8/23/22621979/remote-learning-the-multi-million-dollar-pandemic-mistake-that-schools-arent-fixing

Ed Notes Online: UFT Leaders Support Insurance Scams -- Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices - NYT - https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2021/08/uft-leaders-support-insurance-scams.html

The Dangers of Going Back to School After a Year of COVID-19 Lockdowns | Dissident Voice - https://dissidentvoice.org/?p=120284



Big Education Ape: THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Monday, August 23, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #TEACHtheTRUTH #CRT - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-top-banana-todays-education_23.html

Big Education Ape: THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Sunday, August 22, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #TEACHtheTRUTH #CRT - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-top-banana-todays-education_22.html

Big Education Ape: CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Stone Skipping Edition (8/22) - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/curmudgucation-icymi-stone-skipping.html


Big Education Ape: THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Saturday, August 21, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #TEACHtheTRUTH #CRT - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-top-banana-todays-education_21.html


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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/2021/08/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos_21.html



Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK Education Research Report - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-week-education-research-report_21.html




Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) #BLM #BLACKLIVESMATTER - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-week-with-newblackman-in-exile-blm_21.html


Big Education Ape: SSPI TONY THURMOND: STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/sspi-tony-thurmond-stuff-this-week-from_21.html



Big Education Ape: TEACHER TOM THIS WEEK IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/teacher-tom-this-week-in-early_21.html



Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-weeks-wildness-dad-gone-wild_21.html


Big Education Ape: Network for Public Education Blog Post of the Day This Week #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/network-for-public-education-blog-post_21.html


Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK NEWS FROM DR. MIGUEL CARDONA AND THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-week-news-from-dr-miguel-cardona_21.html



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