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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

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The Endless Humiliation of Teachers | gadflyonthewallblog - https://wp.me/p4QD1W-3Fx via @StevenSinger3



AFT Launches Multiyear, Multimillion-Dollar ‘Reading Opens the World’ Campaign to Spark the Love of Reading | American Federation of Teachers - https://www.aft.org/node/19263 by aftunion

AFT’s Reading Opens the World campaign launch! - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS4ZAZ5INPk on @youtube



TeachRock - https://teachrock.org/?p=153272



How K-12 Spending Has Slipped as a Share of State Economic Output - Route Fifty - https://www.route-fifty.com/finance/2021/12/how-state-school-funding-has-fallen-over-past-two-decades/187320/ on @routefifty



Proud Boys Regroup, Focusing on School Boards and Town Councils - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/14/us/proud-boys-local-issues.html?smid=tw-share on @nytimes



New Book Includes Wonderful Retrospective Essay by the Late Mike Rose | janresseger - https://wp.me/p3JgEc-8w0 via @janresseger



glen brown THE DECEMBER DOZEN- https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/



Radical Eyes for Equity: Reading Matters | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/11191 on @NEPCtweet



The Most Important Article You Will Read About the Attempted Coup of January 6 | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-v7z via @dianeravitch



Teacher Tom: "The Opposite Of Love Is Not Hate, But Power" - http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-opposite-of-love-is-not-hate-but.html



Critical Race Theory: The Facts and Irony (for White People) – radical eyes for equity - https://wp.me/p2GmBR-aeI via @plthomasEdD



Louisiana: Homer Plessy Pardoned After 130 Years | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-v9M via @dianeravitch



CURMUDGUCATION: Education's Transparency Problem - https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2021/12/educations-transparency-problem.html



Black Teachers, Don't Neglect Your Health! - Philly's 7th Ward - https://phillys7thward.org/?p=2372



Statement by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona on NCES Release of Data Regarding Mode of Instruction and School Response to COVID-19 | U.S. Department of Education - https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/statement-us-secretary-education-miguel-cardona-nces-release-data-regarding-mode-instruction-and-school-response-covid-19

NCES Blog | National Center for Education Statistics - https://nces.ed.gov/blogs/nces/



Teachers Union Sues Against New Hampshire Law Limiting Race Education in Schools - https://www.businessinsider.com/education-teachers-union-lawsuit-against-race-sexism-law-new-hampshire-2021-12 on @PoliticsInsider



Six Gigantic Problems, Six Wrong Solutions in Public Education | Teacher in a strange land - https://wp.me/p1Wvaa-fU via @nancyflanagan



Seattle Schools Community Forum: Lawsuit Filed against the Seattle School Board And Seattle Schools over Homeless Encampment - https://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2021/12/lawsuit-filed-against-seattle-school.html



Jennifer Berkshire: Will “Parent Rights” Be a Winning Issue for the GOP? | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-v7L via @dianeravitch



Universal Meals Listening Session January 11, 2022 - Nutrition (CA Dept of Education) - https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/unvmlssy2023lsessjan2022.asp



$768 billion for an already bloated Pentagon - https://michaelklonsky.substack.com/p/a-768-billion-for-an-already-bloated



The NLRB cell phone ban. Amazon blames the dead workers. - https://fredklonsky.substack.com/p/the-nlrb-cell-phone-ban-amazon-blames



AFT’s Reading Opens the World campaign launch! - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS4ZAZ5INPk on @youtube

Threats and burnout pushed a Teacher of The Year to resign education post https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/12/14/former-teacher-of-the-year-ryan-vernosh-shares-struggles-during-pandemic via @mprnews

What Important Lessons Have You Learned From Your Students? (Opinion) - https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-what-important-lessons-have-you-learned-from-your-students/2021/12?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=soc&utm_campaign=edit by @Larryferlazzo on @educationweek

Choosing Democracy: Remembering Eric Vega - http://choosingdemocracy.blogspot.com/2021/12/remembering-eric-vega.html


Bill Ayers - https://wp.me/3AjC

Education Research Report: Classrooms with more Black and Latinx students receive lower quality of teaching - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2021/12/classrooms-with-more-black-and-latinx.html



Importance of pre-K takes center stage at Pennsylvania fair funding trial  https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/12/14/22836513/importance-of-pre-k-takes-center-stage-at-pennsylvania-fair-funding-trial via @ChalkbeatPHL

Easily follow websites that don’t have RSS feeds – Feedly Blog - https://blog.feedly.com/?p=16130 via @feedly

Mulgrew is Making Me Nervous south bronx school - http://southbronxschool.blogspot.com/2021/12/mulgrew-is-making-me-nervous.html




SEL Weekly Update | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=122401 on @Larryferlazzo

glen brown: 12 Poets I Have Read Over and Over Again - https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2021/12/12-poets-i-have-read-over-and-over-again.html

Jonathan Kantrowitz Political Blog: Nearly one-third (30%) of Americans skipped needed medical care in the past three months due to cost - https://wackywac.blogspot.com/2021/12/nearly-one-third-30-of-americans.html



America's First Freed Slaves Bought This Island – Now It’s A Luxury Resort | NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2021/12/americas-first-freed-slaves-bought-this.html via @NewBlackMan

AWKWORD INTERVIEWS: Carlton Williams, Movement Lawyer & Cornell Law Professor | NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2021/12/awkword-interviews-carlton-williams.html via @NewBlackMan

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









Covid’s deadly trade-offs, by the numbers: How each state has fared in the pandemic https://www.politico.com/interactives/2021/covid-by-the-numbers-how-each-state-fared-on-our-pandemic-scorecard/

California education official resigns amid criticism over East Coast residency, hiring process https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/12/14/california-education-official-resigns-amid-criticism-over-east-coast-residency-hiring-process-1400058

Feds scramble to assess security flaw that threatens 'hundreds of millions' of devices https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/14/cisa-cyber-no-sign-vulnerability-524429

California education agency reconsidering East Coast pandemic hire https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/12/14/california-education-agency-reconsidering-east-coast-pandemic-hire-9428028

Inside A Rural School District Suing State For More Equitable Funding https://popularresistance.org/inside-a-rural-school-district-suing-pa-for-more-equitable-funding/

Toronto High School Students Walk Out In Solidarity With Palestine https://popularresistance.org/toronto-high-school-students-walk-out/

La "humillante" escena de unos profesores recogiendo dinero en una escuela de EE.UU. para financiar sus clases - BBC News Mundo - https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-internacional-59647888 via @bbcmundo

Abcarian: A demeaning teacher scramble for cash is a symbol of what's wrong with education funding - Los Angeles Times - https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-12-15/sioux-falls-south-dakota-teacher-money-scramble-hockey by @AbcarianLAT on @latimes

A study on how genetics affects suicide risk is causing a scientific quarrel https://www.salon.com/2021/12/14/a-study-on-how-genetics-affects-risk-is-causing-a-scientific-tiff/

Lawsuit From Howard University Alumni Claims Governing Board is Excluding students, Alumni and Faculty Illegally https://www.theroot.com/lawsuit-from-howard-university-alumni-claims-governing-1848215168

After governor’s veto, parents now must opt-in for students to learn about dating violence, child abuse https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/15/child-abuse-dating-violence-education-texas/

Analysis: Some Texas lawmakers are worried about the wrong reading problem https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/15/texas-education-reading-books/

Death threats and doxxing: The outcomes of mask mandate and critical race theory fights at a Texas school board https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/15/texas-school-boards-political-fights/

Houston-area school district drops gender-based policy on long hair https://www.texastribune.org/2021/12/14/magnolia-isd-long-hair-policy/

How Privately Funded Recreation Centers Could Harm Children – Human Capital Finance In Brazil, Part One – Wrench in the Gears - https://wp.me/p7SU8W-2rA





How the Black Education Movement Took on the Racist Schools System https://popularresistance.org/how-the-black-education-movement-took-on-the-racist-schools-system/



Columbia Student Workers Begin Seventh Week On Strike, Defying University’s Strikebreaking Threats https://popularresistance.org/columbia-student-workers-begin-seventh-week-on-strike-defying-universitys-strikebreaking-threats/

Texas’s Fight Over School Books https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/texas-school-books.html

L.A. Schools Postpone Vaccine Mandate for Students Until Fall 2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/us/los-angeles-school-vaccine-mandate.html

US prep schools held student exchanges with elite Nazi academies https://www.rawstory.com/us-prep-schools-held-student-exchanges-with-elite-nazi-academies/

Ethnic Studies Trailblazers https://www.cta.org/educator/posts/ethnic-studies-trailblazers




Seattle Schools Community Forum: The Kids Are STILL Not Alright - https://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-kids-are-still-not-alright.html




Perspective | Renaming a school: No offense to the worthy gentlemen, but … https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/15/no-offense-to-men-but/?tid=ss_tw

Orleans Parish School Board continues search for a new superintendent https://thelensnola.org/2021/12/15/orleans-parish-school-board-continues-search-for-a-new-superintendent/

DeSantis targets critical race theory with bill that evokes Texas abortion bounties https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/12/15/desantis-targets-critical-race-theory-with-bill-that-evokes-texas-abortion-bounties-1400102

Howard County suspends school events with thousands in covid quarantine https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/15/dmv-school-omicron-outbreaks/

Frederick schools superintendent abruptly retires following DOJ probe https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/12/14/frederick-schools-terry-alban/

OPINION: Our child care industry is in free fall, and that’s bad news for all children https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-our-child-care-industry-is-in-free-fall-and-thats-bad-news-for-all-children/

Too many qualified students are shut out of UC, CSU. A new study offers some solutions https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-15/too-many-qualified-students-are-shut-out-of-uc-csu-a-new-study-suggests-how-to-help

New LAUSD Supt. Alberto Carvalho: 'We have to emerge from this crisis stronger' https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-14/new-lausd-supt-carvalho-l-a-trip

Youth mental health crisis: What parents should watch for https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-12-14/youth-mental-health-crisis-what-parents-should-watch-for

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







Los Angeles Pushes Back Student COVID Vaccine Deadline Until Fall 2022 | HuffPost Latest News - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/los-angeles-student-vaccine-mandate-schools_n_61b9ea55e4b03f82dd585f87 by @glowgow on @HuffPost

Ed Notes Online: UFT Election Committee Meets, Petition Dates Set, Unity (Paid) Election Committee Reps reject UFC call for electronic voting - https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2021/12/uft-election-committee-meets-petition.html



Florida Department of Education releases paychecks it withheld from school board members that implemented mask mandates - CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/14/us/florida-school-board-members-paychecks/index.html#new_tab

New proposal would allow DOE to boot parents from education panels - https://wp.me/pb3Qpq-1nX4E by @nypmetro on @nypost

Glastonbury Board of Education meeting over mascot ends with a fight | Connecticut News | wfsb.com - https://www.wfsb.com/news/glastonbury-board-of-education-meeting-over-mascot-ends-with-a-fight/article_d155eb62-5d5d-11ec-adfc-ebc91b42e684.html?block_id=994091#new_tab on @WFSBnews

Michigan lawmakers create a pathway for school support staff to substitute teach https://detroit.chalkbeat.org/2021/12/14/22836785/michigan-substitute-teacher-requirements-loosened via @ChalkbeatDET

Residents protest CRT, racial equity at Fort Worth school board | Fort Worth Star-Telegram - https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/education/article256552156.html#new_tab on @startelegram

‘Colorado’s public education system is in crisis … our students don’t deserve this.’ | Colorado Public Radio - https://www.cpr.org/2021/12/15/colorados-public-education-system-is-in-crisisour-students-dont-deserve-this/#new_tab

CCSD officials report 45% increase in suicide assessments, 50% rise in violent threats over 2 years - https://www.postandcourier.com/education-lab/ccsd-officials-report-45-increase-in-suicide-assessments-50-rise-in-violent-threats-over-2/article_c0ae3cb6-586b-11ec-8956-4b8c0c370229.html#new_tab on @postandcourier

Maryland Christian school wrongly denied voucher funding: court | U.S. News - https://www.christianpost.com/news/maryland-christian-school-wrongly-denied-voucher-funding-court.html#new_tab via @ChristianPost

Pandemic grades may hurt poor students in CPS high school admission | WBEZ Chicago - https://www.wbez.org/stories/low-income-students-may-be-further-squeezed-out-of-cps-elite-schools-because-of-weak-pandemic-grades/0fc50fd4-744d-4347-bed1-ea01f8258a3a

School enrollment drops again as COVID disruption continues : NPR - https://www.npr.org/2021/12/15/1062999168/school-enrollment-drops-for-second-straight-year#new_tab on @NPR

LAUSD board makes new Superintendent Alberto Carvalho – and his $440,000 salary – official – Daily News - https://www.dailynews.com/?p=4810871 on @ladailynews

At emotional Hillsborough schools meeting, calls for investigation into sexual harassment policies - https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2021/12/14/at-emotional-hillsborough-schools-meeting-calls-for-investigation-into-sexual-harassment-policies/#new_tab on TB_Times

Shooting threats and rumors have schools under pressure, and parents and students on edge - https://www.inquirer.com/news/shooting-threats-rumors-have-schools-under-pressure-parents-students-edge-20211212.html#new_tab via @PhillyInquirer

Noem introduces new bill to ban transgender women, girls from sports - https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/education/2021/12/14/gov-kristi-noem-introduces-south-dakota-legislation-ban-transgender-women-girls-sports/8894344002/#new_tab via @argusleader

New NYC schools boss doesn't plan to 'beat everyone over the head with race' https://nypost.com/2021/12/14/new-nyc-schools-boss-wont-beat-everyone-over-the-head-with-race/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons via @nypmetro

Florida science teacher fired for refusing to wear mask - https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2021/12/15/florida-science-teacher-fired-for-refusing-to-wear-mask/#new_tab on TB_Times



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Big Education Ape: CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: Quick Summer Day Edition (12/12) - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/12/catch-up-with-curmudgucation-icymi.html


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