PROOF POINTS: Researchers pinpoint three elements of effective schools - The Hechinger Report - https://hechingerreport.org/?p=76317 by @jillbarshay on @hechingerreport
Curmudgucation: No, There Really Doesn't Need to be a Big Spring Test in 2021 | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/10682 on @NEPCtweet
Big Education Ape: Shawgi Tell: Charter Schools Have Fewer Nurses and More Inexperienced Teachers than Public Schools | Dissident Voice - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/shawgi-tell-charter-schools-have-fewer.html
Capitalism Is Your Daddy: “what sort of person to die as” From “you are what you eat” to “when you have sex with someone, you are having sex with all of their sexual partners,” we seem obsessed with fear-mongering in order to shape how people behave, and thus, who people become. About fifty pages into Keiichiro Hirano’s A Man , the reader experiences the first hints of what becomes one motif of
Laura Chapman: McKinsey’s Education “Expert” A few days ago, I posted Nancy Bailey’s critique of McKinsey & Company’s report claiming that it’s time for schools to get tough on students. As Bailey points out, when I worked in the Department of Education, the White House was crawling with McKinsey consultants, smart young things who knew everything about education but were seldom old enough to ha
Soon-to-be Secretary Miguel Cardona, the Time is Now for an Education Stimulus Originally published in USA Today. Congratulations on your nomination to be U.S. education secretary, Miguel Cardona. You are poised to take this position at a critical point in American history. As you know well, for generations we have lived through a system of separate and unequal education. COVID-19 has greatly ex
The Debate About School Safety Is No Longer Relevant Even in places where schools want to reopen, too many teachers are sick or quarantining for classrooms to operate, and substitutes cannot fill the void. For months, the debate about whether to open schools has centered on one question: Are schools safe? The only trouble is, this hardly matters anymore. Except in the few remaining regions with
Guarded Hope and 7 Concerns for Public Education this New Year Guarded Hope and 7 Concerns for Public Education this New Year We have a new President and a new education secretary and hope for the future of public education. Hope doesn’t come easy because schools face what appear to be insurmountable difficulties due to Covid-19. Also, wealthy individuals and groups who want school privatization
"This is a Little Princess" She had chosen a Disney princess book for me to read to her, but we were mostly just talking our way through the pages. I was pretty certain she hadn't seen the movie, but she nevertheless seemed to know a lot about the characters and the story. I turned a page and she remarked, "That's a little Snow White." "Yes, but she's bigger than the dwarfs." "They're little too
Jake Jacobs: End the Tax Breaks for Charter Schools and the Uber-Rich Jake Jacobs is a middle school art teacher in New York. He is the national co-administrator of the BadAss Teachers Association, an organization of militant activist teachers. He writes: Joe Biden’s recent nomination of Miguel Cardona as a relatively lesser-known, less controversial selection for Secretary of Education was tell
Montana’s Senator Jon Tester Says Democrats Can Win in Red States By Prioritizing Public Education In mid-December, the NY Times ‘ Jonathan Martin interviewed Montana Senator Jon Tester about his new book, Grounded: A Senator’s Lessons on Winning Back Rural America . Tester, a Democrat and U.S. Senator in his third term, represents a deep red state. Tester tells Martin: “Democrats can really do
Are Children Falling Behind? What Shall We Do About the Children After the Pandemic Teresa Thayer Snyder December 12, 2020 Diane Ravitch's BLOG I sincerely plead with my colleagues, to surrender the artificial constructs that measure achievement and greet the children where they are, not where we think they “should be.” Students line up to have their temperature checked before entering PS 179 el
Curriculum Associates, "Learning Loss," and Corporate Gain Curriculum Associates (CA) started in a garage in 1969 with four employees, and for twenty years the company marketed supplementary basic curriculum materials to K-12 school systems. In 1989, the original head of the company, Frank Ferguson, saw the testing accountability writing on the wall, and he expanded the focus of the company into
COVID AND SCHOOLS: THE DATA AND SCIENCE THEN AND NOW Early on in the pandemic the thinking was that masks were not necessary. In fact, there is a video circulating online that shows Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), saying “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” Fauci’s remarks
MO: GOP Rep Tells Teachers To Take A Hike So here's a jolly exchange from Twitter on Saturday. That's Justin Hill , a Missouri GOP rep from the 108th district, showing his love and support for teachers in his state. He was a cop before running for office, so you'd think he'd know something about public service, but maybe not so much. He's had a few ideas to offer before. While the Missouri legis
Larry 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.html SEL Weekly Update by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h I’ve recently begun this weekly po
CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: So I Guess This Is A New Year Edition (1/3) So I Guess This Is A New Year Edition I'm not sure I've ever felt less enamored of our habit of celebrating the passing of an arbitrary line in the sand that we drew ourselves, but it's not the most terrible human activity, either, so carry on. Also cross your fingers and say a prayer for everyone going back to school tomorrow. In
Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES COVID and Schools: The Data and Science Then and Now | Cloaking Inequity - https://wp.me/p2D92I-5Ln via @ProfessorJVH Teachers start
