Declining enrollment, increased absences threaten public school funding | Mississippi Today - https://mississippitoday.org/?p=978614 by @krroyals on @MSTODAYnews
Broward Teachers Union Sues School District Over Return To In-Person Teaching For Medically High Risk Educators https://cbsloc.al/3s02CQK#.X_ipW5-FFU8.twitter
Janresseger: Public Schools Need the Modest Dollars in Current Fiscal Relief Package, But Addressing Educational Injustice Will Take Much More | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/10701 on @NEPCtweet
‘Good riddance’ and other reactions to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s resignation Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has turned in her resignation , effective Friday, and after four years of her highly controversial tenure, the reaction is coming in thick and fast. DeVos, a Michigan billionaire who called public schools a “dead end” before she became education secretary in 2017, was a hero to co
Betsy DeVos Resigns | Eclectablog Betsy DeVos Resigns I wish I could find more satisfaction in something I’ve hoped would happen for 4 years. But as usual, Ms. DeVos did the absolute least she could do (resign), well past the time when it could have made a difference (with 13 days left in her lamest of all duck terms), and is probably only doing it to avoid doing something she doesn’t want to do
Unstructured Play Outdoors Should Be the Foundation of Childhood The central purpose of every human community that has ever existed is to care for children. As I wrote previously, the only question is "How?" Generally speaking, modern society has answered that question in a way that gives children a raw deal. While it's certainly true that we're good at keeping them alive by historic standards,
BYE, BYE BETSY Betsy DeVos Resigns I was ready to publish the rest of the articles in this post on Wednesday, but I got sidetracked by the horrible events in Washington D.C. Since then I have paused, while I figured out what I wanted to say. Then, last night, Betsy DeVos resigned… I am against nearly everything DeVos has done during her term as Secretary. She has pushed her agenda of privatizati
New Education Secretary, Dr. Miguel Cardona, Should Not Require Annual Standardized Testing in This COVID-19 School Year Last weekend, the NY Times editorialized to demand that President Elect Joe Biden’s new Secretary of Education promptly “clear the wreckage” from Betsy DeVos’s Department of Education. The newspaper is correct to criticize Betsy DeVos’s abandonment of the department’s mission
Americans’ Secular Faith in Schooling (Part 3) With Part 3, readers have now seen most of the draft Introduction to my next book. Comments welcomed. For those readers wanting citations, please contact me. Perverse outcomes of school reforms Consider the massive effort by civil rights reformers to desegregate schools between the 1960s and 1980s following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown decision (1
Betsy DeVos Resigns, Citing Trump’s Support for Insurrection With only a few days left in Trump’s term of office, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos resigned. She says she objected to his rhetoric in inciting the insurrection of his devoted loyalists. This is certainly an anti-climax. DeVos had to clear out anyway, but by resigning now she avoids the painful decision about forcing Trump to resig
Betsy DeVos Bails Out Well, she finally had enough. DeVos blamed Trumpian rhetoric for the riots, called it an "inflection point" for her, and became one more GOP Trump-fluffer to suddenly discover her shock and outrage for exactly the same kind of shit that he's been doing for four years. I mean, there's something deeply disingenuous about watching someone throw gasoline and matches around for
What I Told My Students About Yesterday’s Attempted Trump Coup The moment I had been dreading happened. Student names started popping up on my screen waiting to be admitted into this morning’s first Zoom meeting. What was I going to say to them? Yesterday in Washington, DC, thousands of Trump supporters charged into the Capitol Building at his urging in an attempt to stop Congress from certifyin
The Chancellor Responds to Current Events Dear Colleagues, Like so many other days in the past ten months, yesterday we experienced an alarming and frightening moment that was unprecedented in our lifetimes. And l have to tell you, I was relieved to see the breach of the U.S Capitol, I was absolutely certain that something like this would make you think about something other than my forcing you
Greene just doesn't get it Greene just doesn't get it, and please don't take my word for it. Take hers. Greene penned yet another letter to the staff, and in it, she points out how completely tone-deaf she is. Bold is my commentary. Team Duval, As we begin this new year, I am once again calling on you to be the voice of calm and the hand of stability during uncertain times. Our students are cert
Cuomo’s Dishonest Math Pitcher is getting shelled. “When you going to take him out?!?!” scream the fans. The manager says “when they have more hits than at bats” Huh? He just said he’s never taking the pitcher out. Idiot. And dishonest. Hits are never more than at bats. Why not just say what he means? Repression’s getting bad in a far off country. People ask an NGO when they are getting added to
NewBlackMan (in Exile) NewBlackMan (in Exile) TODAY Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/this-week-with-newblackman-in-exile-blm.html White Purity, Black Sexuality, and Their Roles in America’s History of Racism: A Conversation with Historians Jane Dailey and Nell Painter by Mark Anthony Neal / 16h 'In her new book, White Fright: T
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 Depressing Quote Of The Day: Teachers At The Capitol Insurrection 22 by Larr
Betsy DeVos Resigns as Education Secretary Education Secretary Betsy DeVos submitted her resignation to President Trump on Thursday night, becoming the second member of Mr. Trump's cabinet to resign since pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday. "We should be highlighting and celebrating your Administration's many accomplishments on behalf of the American people," Mrs. DeVos wrote in
Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Valerie Strauss: Growing Number of States Want Waivers from Annual Testing | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-t1u via @dianeravitch Iowa Legislature to consider ‘parental choice’ in requiring in-person learning |
