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TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES
CURMUDGUCATION: Why My Children Are Not Scholars - http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2021/06/why-my-children-are-not-scholars.html
Oklahoma: Judge Orders Charter Founders to Turn Financials Over to State | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-uej via @dianeravitch
Opposition to bill that would allow College Board/ACT to keep on selling student data | Parent Coalition for Student Privacy - https://studentprivacymatters.org/?p=2723
Teacher Tom: To Err Is Human, To Repair Devine - http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2021/06/to-err-is-human-to-repair-devine.html
Teacher Tom: "We Have to Liberate Ourselves First" - http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2021/05/we-have-to-liberate-ourselves-first.html
Doctoring, Like Teaching, Is a Helping Profession (Joel “Yus” Merenstein) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - https://wp.me/pBm7c-88Z via @CubanLarry
Two Popes: Will the Incumbent and the Winner of the Democratic Primary Collaborate to Build a New Department of Education or Vie for Power? | Ed In The Apple - https://wp.me/p2zCG-2Ry via @edintheapple
Jan Resseger: Time to Abolish the Federal Charter Schools Program | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-ueb via @dianeravitch
Education Research Report: High school students in the United States unable to discern quality information from sham online - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/
Grassroots Education Network- May 2021 Newsletter - Network For Public Education - https://networkforpubliceducation.org/grassroots-education-network-may-2021-newsletter/ via @Network4pubEd
Our Collective Lesson Plan [On Teachers of Color In This Moment] | The Jose Vilson - https://wp.me/p5MpX-4OQ via @thejlv
Class Size Matters & Shino Tanikawa Testimony on the FY 2022 budget: In Support of $250 million to lower class size | Class Size Matters | A clearinghouse for information on class size & the proven benefits of smaller classes - https://classsizematters.org/?p=9654
Seattle Schools Community Forum: 36th Democrats Endorsement Committee Interviews with School Board candidates - https://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2021/05/36th-democrats-endorsement-committee.html
CURMUDGUCATION: Tulsa and Teaching History - http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2021/05/tulsa-and-teaching-history.html
Closing the Digital Divide Requires Everyone to Come to the Table by Donna Rattley Washington | NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2021/05/closing-digital-divide-requires.html
Voice of the People: Bill allows voucher schools to scam parents - https://www.theledger.com/story/opinion/letters/2021/05/08/voice-people-bill-allows-voucher-schools-scam-parents/4989319001/ via @theledger
How a national student database could cheapen the college experience - https://theconversation.com/how-a-national-student-database-could-cheapen-the-college-experience-161228
Academic Freedom Is on the Ropes - https://www.chronicle.com/article/academic-freedom-is-on-the-ropes by @@AlexanderKafka on @chronicle
Homeroom: Should I Force My Kid to Do Summer Reading? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAtlantic/~3/rPSOrnMlTpk/
Nation’s first school mandate on AAPI history heads to Illinois governor https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/31/aapi-history-education-illinois-491324
“Badass Teachers” Facebook group administrators uphold ban on WSWS writer Evan Blake https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/01/bats-j01.html
Is it time to rethink the value of college? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21279216/higher-education-college-america-student-debt
New Report Compares State Performance Standards Using NAEP http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/
Public colleges shock students by sending them to costly debt collection agencies https://hechingerreport.org/public-colleges-shock-students-by-sending-them-to-costly-debt-collection-agencies/
No Early Retirement Incentive This Year https://jd2718.org/2021/06/01/no-early-retirement-incentive-this-year/
Are You There? http://nyceducator.com/2021/06/are-you-there.html
Heated graduation speech gets Stagg Principal Nakamura booted off campus - https://www.recordnet.com/story/news/local/2021/05/27/heated-graduation-speech-gets-stagg-principal-nakamura-escorted-off-campus/7476520002/#new_tab via @recordnet
Known for its 100% college acceptance rate among seniors, Urban Prep staff say they are underpaid and face poor working conditions. https://www.wbez.org/stories/teachers-at-high-profile-all-boys-charter-school-in-chicago-authorize-a-strike/03265dac-fb58-4e81-adb5-d5f401dd5b50
Chicago Public Schools to train students to identify and report racism and bias - Chalkbeat Chicago - https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/27/22457774/chicago-schools-will-train-students-to-identify-and-report-racism-and-bias-incidents#new_tab on chalkbeat
Is remote learning here to stay? Many, but not all, Colorado schools will offer online classes this fall. - https://coloradosun.com/2021/05/31/colorado-education-schools-students-remote-learning-coronavirus/#new_tab via @coloradosun
SFUSD lost touch with 8,800 students during the pandemic - https://sfbayview.com/?p=95056 via @sfbayview
Illinois Dramatically Limits Use of Seclusion and Face-Down Restraints in Schools — ProPublica - https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-dramatically-limits-use-of-seclusion-and-face-down-restraints-in-schools#new_tab via @propublica
Tay Anderson to step back from ‘everyday’ duties but keep voting - Chalkbeat Colorado - https://co.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/30/22461387/tay-anderson-stepping-away-from-denver-school-board-duties-during-sexual-misconduct-investigation#new_tab on chalkbeat
Seattle Schools Community Forum: Board Meeting on Wednesday Night. - https://saveseattleschools.blogspot.com/2021/05/board-meeting-on-wednesday-night.html
Arizona teachers' union affiliate ripped for tone deaf 'Game of Thrones' tweet on Memorial Day weekend https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-teachers-union-ripped-tone-deaf-game-of-thrones-tweet-suffering-pandemic #FoxNews
Unpacking Nonsense: Knowledge as Commodity – radical eyes for equity - https://wp.me/p2GmBR-9Zj via @plthomasEdD
Nation’s skeletal school mental health network will be severely tested - https://hechingerreport.org/?p=79174 via @hechingerreport
Why huge wave of teacher retirements won’t break schools | CalMatters https://calmatters.org/education/2021/06/california-teacher-retirement/