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Mitchell Robinson for State School Board - https://www.mitchellrobinsonforstateschoolboard.org/
New report shows significant & beneficial declines in citywide class sizes that will increase once again if Mayor’s budget cuts are made | Class Size Matters | A clearinghouse for information on class size & the proven benefits of smaller classes - https://classsizematters.org/?p=10370
SCTA Agrees to Fact-Finder's Recommendation - Sacramento City Teachers Association - https://sacteachers.org/?p=3915
MGT Consulting and Somerset Academy: A Florida Case Study in Ed Reform Working for Itself. | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog - https://wp.me/p36Q2R-6Iz
FOP flop in Chicago - by Michael Klonsky - https://michaelklonsky.substack.com/p/fop-flop-in-chicago?s=r
BBC News: The Wounded. Children of Putin’s War | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-vJL via @dianeravitch
NYC Educator: Don't Forget to Vote for Unity - http://nyceducator.com/2022/03/dont-forget-to-vote-for-unity.html
Oklahoma: The Long Battle to Destroy Public Schools | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/s2odLa-oklahoma via @dianeravitch
Teacher Tom: "Guys, Guys, I Got A Plan" - http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2022/03/guys-guys-i-got-plan.html
USA Today: Charter Schools Collected $1 Billion in COVID Funds They Did Not Need | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-vJd via @dianeravitch
Newark: Black Students Walk Out of North Star Charter to Protest Mistreatment | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-vJI via @dianeravitch
State Fiscal Austerity Agency Says 11 School Districts Face Similar Fate as OUSD | Post News Group - https://www.postnewsgroup.com/?p=668877 via @OaklandPostNews
USA Today Exposes Charter School Abuse of Small Business PPP Funds - Network For Public Education - https://networkforpubliceducation.org/usa-today-exposes-charter-school-abuse-of-small-business-ppp-funds/ via @Network4pubEd
Propaganda Techniques to Justify Putin’s War on Ukraine | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-vIM via @dianeravitch
Former Athens principal convicted for role in $10 million fraud scheme - https://www.alreporter.com/2022/03/21/former-athens-principal-convicted-for-role-in-10-million-fraud-scheme/
Schools primed for 'militant teacher strikes' over post-COVID pay, benefits and respect - https://news.yahoo.com/schools-primed-militant-teacher-strikes-090059476.html#new_tab on @YahooNews
Ed Notes Online: Handicapping the 2022 UFT Election: Can United for Change Win? Part 1 - UFC Unique Coalition, Unity on the Attack, Will UFC Hold Together? - https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2022/03/handicapping-2022-uft-election-can.html
Work Won't Love You Back: What Teachers Can Teach Us About Work - Progressive.org - https://progressive.org/magazine/teachers-teach-us-about-work-jaffe/
Academic Freedom Isn't Free: Curriculum as Windows, Mirrors, and Maps | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/11327 on @NEPCtweet
CURMUDGUCATION: Read This Series About Hillsdale College and the Dismantling of Public Education - https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2022/03/read-this-series-about-hillsdale.html
WHAT IS ALL REALLY ABOUT? – Dad Gone Wild - https://wp.me/p4d08y-38J via @norinrad10
This school wasn't built for the new climate reality. Yours may not be either https://www.npr.org/2022/03/21/1084912552/climate-change-schools?
Opinion | Why Are We Letting Republicans Win the School Wars? - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/opinion/democrats-public-education-culture-wars.html?smid=tw-share on @nytimes Reading: Any US School - https://education-consumers.org/?p=410
Opinion: Teachers don’t need a task force. We need a new governor. - https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/Opinion-Teachers-don-t-need-a-task-force-We-17009099.php on @houstonchron
Blog Posts Archive - Network For Public Education - https://networkforpubliceducation.org/best-posts/ on @Network4pubEd
Pretrial juvenile detention leads to a 31% decline in the likelihood of graduating high schoolby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2h
Roughly one in four juveniles arrested in the U.S. spend time in a detention center prior to their court date. To study the consequences of this practice for youth, this paper links the universe of individual public school records in Michigan to juvenile and adult criminal justice records. Using a combination of exact matching and inverse probability weighting, the authors estimate that juvenile
The Higher Education-Innovation Gapby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2h
This paper documents differences across higher-education courses in the coverage of frontier knowledge. Comparing the text of 1.7M syllabi and 20M academic articles, the authors construct the "education-innovation gap," a syllabus’s relative proximity to old and new knowledge. They show that courses differ greatly in the extent to which they cover frontier knowledge. More selective and better fun
Students exposed to additional funding during elementary school were substantially less likely to be arrested in adulthoodby Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2h
This paper asks whether improving the quality of public schools can be an effective long-run crime-prevention strategy in the U.S. Specifically, the paper
NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/ via @NewBlackMan
Left of Black S12 · E16 | Boyz n the Void: a mixtape to my brother with G'Ra Asimby Mark Anthony Neal / 17h
What does it mean to be Black and punk? How does this intersection impact how African American youth express themselves while confronted with the expectations of society and community? G'Ra Asim , assistant professor of creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis and a punk rocker, joins Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal to discuss his book, Boyz n the
Samuel L. Jackson: "Movie sets are my playground"by Mark Anthony Neal / 20h
'Actor Samuel L. Jackson , nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction," will receive an honorary Oscar for a stellar career that includes more than 150 films. He talks with Sunday Morning contributor Kelefa Sanneh about his love of popcorn movies, the business of Hollywood, and his new TV miniseries, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey , based on the book by
Faith Evans Shares Stories From The Infamous 1995 Source Awardsby Mark Anthony Neal / 20h
'In this clip from People's Party with Talib Kweli , Kweli and co-host Jasmin Leigh talk with singer and songwriter Faith Evans about the 1995 Source Awards.'
Tank And The Bangas - Black Folk ft. Alex Isley, Masego (Official Video)by Mark Anthony Neal / 20h
"Black Folk", the video from from Tank and the Bangas ' "Red Balloon" featuring Alex Isley .
Amina Gautier in The Black Writer's Studioby Mark Anthony Neal / 20h
' Amina Gautier is the author of three short story collections: At-Risk , Now We Will Be Happ y, and The Loss of All Lost Things . More than one hundred and thirty of her stories have been published, appearing in Agni, American Short Fiction, Boston Review, Callaloo, Cincinnati Review, Glimmer Train, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, Joyland, Kenyon Review, Kweli, Latino Book Review, Los Angeles Re
From GOAT to ghost: Here are America’s 30 most Googled slang terms
https://www.salon.com/2022/03/20/from-goat-to-ghost-here-are-americas-30-most-googled-slang-terms_partner/
Harvard Law Appoints First Black Dean of Students
https://www.theroot.com/harvard-law-appoints-first-black-dean-of-students-1848679292
The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Makes School Even Less Safe for Black Students https://sacobserver.com/2022/03/the-dont-say-gay-bill-makes-school-even-less-safe-for-black-students/
Non-Tenure Howard Faculty Threaten to Strike https://sacobserver.com/2022/03/non-tenure-howard-faculty-threaten-to-strike/
PROOF POINTS: $1.5 billion in recovery funds go to afterschool https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-1-5-billion-in-recovery-funds-go-to-afterschool/
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ on @Larryferlazzo
This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy IssuesHere are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here ): Op-Ed: How can we make more students fall in love with math? is by JO BOALER. Unprecedented federal funding is on the way. High-poverty schools are starting to reckon with how to spend it. is from Chalkbeat. "10,000 students do
Most Popular Posts Of The WeekI’m making a change in the content of the regular feature. In addition to sharing the top five posts that have received the most “hits” in the preceding seven-to-ten days (though they may have originally been published on an earlier date), I will also include the top five posts that have actually appeared in the past week. Often, these are different posts. You might also be interested in IT’S THE
A Look Back: This Is Interesting: Hattie Says Jigsaw Strategy Hits a HomerunI thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . This post originally appeared in 2017: Katrina Schwartz has written an excellent article over at MindShift headlined How Do You Know When A Teaching Strategy Is Most Effective? John Hattie Has An Idea. She’s done a masterful job of exp
Classroom Instruction Resources Of The WeekEach week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON INSTRUCTION IN 2021 – PART ONE . Here are this week’s picks: Creating Authentic Writing Opportunities in the Science Classroom is from Edutopia. I’m adding it to The Best Resources For Writing In Sc
NYC Education Dept.’s newly-created division to support kids in foster care still hasn’t hired any staffers
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-new-division-foster-care-hasnt-hired-staffers-20220321-3pmlrbabibga3nryhsbiy5u7me-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/new-york/education/Slow progress on NYC’s $200 million “universal curriculum” - New York Daily News - https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-mosaic-curriculum-slow-progress-20220320-dd5zmx67mjfoll3c2arcvvkpae-story.html via @nydailynews
California CHARTER SCHOOL teacher under fire for leading pre-schoolers in an anti-Biden chant: report
https://www.rawstory.com/a-2656995956/
Biden-Harris Administration Partners with Aspen Institute on Latino Regional Economic Summits to Connect Local Latino Community Members with Federal Leaders and Resources | U.S. Department of Education - https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/biden-harris-administration-partners-aspen-institute-latino-regional-economic-summits-connect-local-latino-community-members-federal-leaders-and-resources
More money for Chicago schools next year, but shrinking campuses see cuts - Chalkbeat Chicago -
https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2022/3/18/22985243/chicago-public-schools-budgets-pedro-martinez-290-million-campus-funding#new_tab on chalkbeatLexington-Richland 5 school board member files libel suit over social media comments | Columbia News | postandcourier.com - https://www.postandcourier.com/columbia/news/lexington-richland-5-school-board-member-files-libel-suit-over-social-media-comments/article_903e8552-a48a-11ec-af4c-67b72e7545ff.html#new_tab on @postandcourier 'Ghost guns' showing up in school shootings, experts fear trend will get worse - ABC News - https://abcnews.go.com/US/ghost-guns-showing-school-shootings-experts-fear-trend/story?id=83346844#new_tab Bill to ban books with descriptions of sex from Arizona schools moves forward https://www.azmirror.com/2022/03/16/bill-to-ban-books-with-descriptions-of-sex-from-arizona-schools-moves-forward/ via @ArizonaMirror Applications to SFUSD schools stagnate, a worrying sign as district struggles with declining enrollment - https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Applications-to-SFUSD-schools-stagnate-a-17012205.php#new_tab on @sfchronicle
Luring Covid-cautious parents back to school
https://hechingerreport.org/luring-covid-cautious-parents-back-to-school/
Where in the world is Vermont’s public tuition money going? - VTDigger - https://vtdigger.org/2022/03/20/where-in-the-world-is-vermonts-public-tuition-money-going/#new_tab via @vtdigger We Demand Better for Our Black Children - The Santa Barbara Independent - https://www.independent.com/?p=376974
Big Education Ape: THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Sunday, March 20, 2022 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #StandWithUkraine️ - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-top-banana-todays-education_20.htmlBig Education Ape: THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Saturday, March 19, 2022 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #StandWithUkraine️ - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-top-banana-todays-education_19.html
Big Education Ape: TOP POSTS THIS WEEK Saturday, March 19, 2022 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #TEACHtheTRUTH #CRT - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/top-posts-this-week-saturday-march-19.html
Big Education Ape: THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Friday, March 18, 2022 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #StandWithUkraine️ - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-top-banana-todays-education_18.html
Big Education Ape: KEEP UP/ CATCH UP WITH DIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG A site to discuss better education for all #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/keep-up-catch-up-with-diane-ravitchs_19.html
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/2022/03/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos_19.html
Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK Education Research Report - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/this-week-education-research-report_19.html
Big Education Ape: SSPI TONY THURMOND: STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/sspi-tony-thurmond-stuff-this-week-from_19.html 
