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Community schools implementation and administration: Policy opportunities - https://brook.gs/3qBcyRx on @BrookingsInst
Stream #133 What Should Schools Do About Climate Change? by Have You Heard | Listen online for free on SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/haveyouheardpodcast/climate-change?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
EHT charter school founder allegedly misrepresented contracts to his own company – BreakingAC - https://wp.me/p8bPsH-fPl on @breakingac
Network For Public Education The goal of NPE is to connect all who are passionate about our schools – students parents teachers and citizens We share information and research on vital issues that concern the future of public education - https://networkforpubliceducation.org/ on @Network4pubEd
Carol Burris: What the Proposed Regulations for the Federal Charter Schools Program Really Say | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-vP9 via @dianeravitch
President Biden’s Proposed FY 2023 Federal Budget Increases Funding for Key Federal Responsibilities Including Title I, IDEA, and the Office for Civil Rights | janresseger - https://wp.me/p3JgEc-8Q6 via @janresseger
Nutrition - Learning Support (CA Dept of Education) - https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/
Is the Great Resignation really more about anti-immigration and the border wall? - https://fredklonsky.substack.com/p/is-the-great-resignation-really-more?s=r
CURMUDGUCATION: How To Innovate On Assessment (And Why States Won't) - https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2022/04/how-to-innovate-on-assessment-and-why.html
STREET LIFE | DCGEducator: Doing The Right Thing - https://wp.me/p4qzB1-Cj via @dcgmentor
Some skepticism around latest war crimes stories. - https://michaelklonsky.substack.com/p/some-skepticism-around-latest-war?s=r
Teacher Tom: "Save The Earth Green Deal" - http://teachertomsblog.blogspot.com/2022/04/save-earth-green-deal.html
CURMUDGUCATION: MI: DeVos and Far Right Team Up To Crush Public Ed (And Voting, And A Few Other Things) - https://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2022/04/mi-devos-and-far-right-team-up-to-crush.html
Tom Ultican: D.C. Educators Fired for Opposing Relay “Graduate School” Ideology | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-vNL via @dianeravitch
NYC Educator: Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle - http://nyceducator.com/2022/04/putting-genie-back-in-bottle.html
WandaVision: Pastiche, Past, and Present (A Course) – academic freedom isn't free - https://wp.me/p2GmBR-ass via @plthomasEdD
Did we really learn anything about schools in the pandemic? - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/06/did-we-learn-anything-schools-pandemic/
What Biden’s proposed reforms to charter school program really say - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/06/biden-reforms-charter-school-funding/
The Horrors of Bucha | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-vPu via @dianeravitch
“In the Public Interest”: Time to Regulate the Federal Charter School Slush Fund | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-vLX via @dianeravitch
2022 Model School Attendance Review Board Awardees - Year 2022 (CA Dept of Education) - https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr22/yr22rel19.asp
VICIOUSLY BIGOTED BUTT OFFICIALLY IN FOR MAURY MAYOR – THE TENNESSEE HOLLER - https://tnholler.com/?p=6527 Fighting Disinformation | Union of Concerned Scientists - https://ucsusa.org/resources/fighting-disinformation via @UCSUSA
Blog Posts Archive - Network For Public Education - https://networkforpubliceducation.org/best-posts/ on @Network4pubEd
Event: Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic and student mental health https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2022/4/6/23013718/philadelphia-gun-violence-epidemic-mental-health-event-chalkbeat-resolve-philly via @ChalkbeatPHLStudent Loans are a Burden for Black Educators. Cancel Them. https://inthesetimes.com/article/student-debt-cancellation-black-educators-labor-chicago-teachers-union
10 Essential Books About Writing https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/10-essential-books-about-writing
NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/ via @NewBlackMan
Robin Thede Teases ‘Epic’ Return of ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ on Variety’s ‘Through Our Lens’by Mark Anthony Neal / 13h
' Robin Thede , writer, comedian and creator of A Black Lady Sketch Show , joins Variety ’s Angelique Jackson on Through Our Lens to discuss how her perspective as a Black woman has shaped her comedy career and outlook as a creator and showrunner.'
Dr. Cornel West: Philosophy in Our Time of Imperial Decayby Mark Anthony Neal / 13h
'American philosopher, political activist, social critic, and educator Dr. Cornel West offers the public lecture, "Philosophy in Our Time of Imperial Decay." Dr. West is The New School's 2021-2022 Presidential Visiting Scholar and is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. Dr. West teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer , as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, Afr
Why Everyone has This Chairby Mark Anthony Neal / 13h
'This two-legged chair, Cesca (also known as a B32), has been famous for almost 100 years. It was designed nearly 100 years ago by an architect named Marcel Breuer , while he was a student at the Bauhaus, the famed German art school. This somewhat unassuming two-legged chair is the realization of a manifestos-worth of utopian ideals about design and functionality. So maybe it’s no surprise it has
Legendary Musician Daryl Hall Brings 'Timeless Quality' Back to the Stageby Mark Anthony Neal / 13h
' Daryl Hall , a giant of the music industry who is best known for being one-half of the iconic group Hall & Oates, is now 75 and still trying to make his fans' "dreams come true." And with a new tour he shows no signs of slowing down. Geoff Bennett sat down with the iconic musician.'
Live from the Whitney | A Conversation with Jennifer Packerby Mark Anthony Neal / 1d
'On the occasion of her survey exhibition, The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing , Jennifer Packer speaks in conversation with Jane Panetta , Nancy and Fred Poses Curator and Director of the Collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art . Their dialogue touches on Packer’s approach to painting, her influences and inspirations from the history of art, and her engagement with the politics of repr
HOT 97: Dr. Treva B. Lindsey On 'America Goddam', Serena Williams and Violence Against Black Womenby Mark Anthony Neal / 1d
' Dr. Treva B. Lindsey sat down with Ebro in the Morning with her book America, Goddam Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice and have a great discussion on how Black women are treated in this country, how Serena Williams was not believed when it came to the pain experienced before the birth of her child, and much more.'
Jackson on precipice of historic Supreme Court confirmation https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/07/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-00023732
Education Department Continues Push to Invest in Highly Effective Educators and Address Teacher Shortage | U.S. Department of Education - https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/education-department-continues-push-invest-highly-effective-educators-and-address-teacher-shortageThe wisdom of children https://www.vox.com/vox-conversations-podcast/22999708/vox-conversations-david-spangler-childhood-parenting-spirituality
A survey on global mental well-being shows that the kids are not all right https://www.vox.com/23013483/mental-health-pandemic-young-people-sapien-labs
Georgia Senate Introduces Its Own Version of 'Don't Say Gay' Bill https://www.theroot.com/georgia-senate-introduces-its-own-version-of-dont-say-g-1848763438
Outrage after school board blocks Black journalist: ‘Public meetings are public meetings. Period.’ https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-johnson-ankeny-schools/
Emails indicate Ron DeSantis lied about a school changing a child’s gender without parental consent https://www.rawstory.com/ron-desantis-gay-parents-lie/
This school board can’t stop fighting. A Maryland bill aims to fix it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/04/07/prince-georges-county-school-board/?
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 -
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Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELLBiljaST / Pixabay Six years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2021. Also, check out A Collection Of My Best Resources On Teaching English Language Learners. In additi
A Look Back: Over 250 Of My Ten-Minute BAM! Radio Shows On Different Teaching TopicsFor the past several years, I’ve been doing ten-minute podcasts with multiple guests to accompany my Education Week columns. I’ve usually done about forty each year, though I’ve that by about half since the pandemic started just to bring a little more sanity into my life. I hope to go back to my regular schedule in the fall. You can see them all at All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Description
A Collection Of Tweeted Excerpts From Our New Book, The 2nd Edition Of “The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide”Katie and I did a “slow Twitter chat” about our book last week, where we and others who contributed to the book shared excerpts. Here are a few of the tweets from that chat: Today is the first day of the slow Twitter chat about the new 2nd edition of the ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide. Just a reminder that you can still access tons of free materials from first edition here: https://t.co/gGy3dAZ
All Student Handouts From Our New Book – Plus Five Bonus Chapters – Are Now Available For Free DownloadAs most readers know, the second edition of The ESL/ELL Teacher’s Survival Guide came out last week. Today, the publisher unveiled a website that allows anyone – without any needed registration – to download the zillions of student hand-outs in the book, plus download five bonus chapters: Distance Learning, which Katie and I wrote Teaching English Internationally, by Tan Huynh Non Native English
Research Studies Of The WeekI often write about research studies from various fields and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature . By the way, you mig
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: Power Lesson: Poetry Gallery Walk is from Cult of Pedagogy. I’m adding it to The Best World Poetry Day Resources – Help Me Find More .
Graduation rates high, but signs of trouble in school report cards https://www.njspotlightnews.org/2022/04/nj-education-school-performance-report-cards-test-learning-loss-performance-enrollment-district-spending-absentee-numbers-jumped/Education : NPR - https://www.npr.org/sections/education/ on @NPR News brief: NATO meets on Ukraine, Judge Jackson vote, student loansSecretary of State Blinken meets with European foreign ministers. The Senate is to vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. Some student loan borrowers have gotten good news.
The student loan pause has been extended until the end of AugustNPR's Leila Fadel talks to Mike Pierce of the Student Borrower Protection Center, about plans to extend the student loan payment pause and a reset for roughly 7 million borrowers who are in default.
A dad who moved into his daughter's dorm room is convicted of abusing her friends100+by The Associated Press / 17h
Weeks of testimony chronicled Lawrence Ray's psychologically manipulative relationship with young people he met in fall 2010 at Sarah Lawrence College and then exploited for the next decade. (Image credit: U.S. Attorney's office via AP)
As Kansas celebrates victory, a years-long NCAA investigation hangs over the schoolThe University of Kansas just won the NCAA men's basketball championship, but the results of an investigation into recruiting violations may spoil the party. (Image credit: Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona discusses the student loan pause extensionNPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona about the extension on the student loan pause. Also, roughly 7 million borrowers who are in default right now will get a fresh start.
The student loan pause has been extended until the end of the summerThe Biden administration extended the freeze on student loan payments yet again, this time until September, and announced a reset for borrowers in default. (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
NYC advocates, educators push for more school arts funding after pandemic setbacks https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-nyc-school-arts-funding-20220406-bhducuj6zfdx7ohimrgnhidhkm-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/new-york/education/As Book Banning Efforts Surge, These 10 Received the Most Challenges https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/04/books/banned-books-libraries.html
June Shagaloff Alexander, School Desegregation Leader, Dies at 93 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/us/june-shagaloff-alexander-dead.html
Tight labor market hits after school https://hechingerreport.org/tight-labor-market-hits-after-school/
Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all -
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The Horrors of BuchaAs the Russian military regroups and moves to attack Ukrainian cities in the East, it is withdrawing from towns it controlled for more than a month. The evidence of sadism, torture, and war crimes against civilians shocks the conscience of everyone but the man who started the war, Vladimir Putin. He and he alone has the power to stop the killing. By now, we have all seen the trrrible carnage on t
“In the Public Interest”: Time to Regulate the Federal Charter School Slush FundThe nonprofit, nonpartisan group “In the Public Interest” explains the need to regulate the $440 million federal Charter Schools Program, which is awash in waste, fraud, and abuse. Did you know that the federal government spends $440 million every year to help start privately run charter schools? Did you know that some of that money ends up in the hands of people who never actually open schools o
Tom Ultican: D.C. Educators Fired for Opposing Relay “Graduate School” IdeologyTom Ultican, chronicler of the Destroy Public Education movement and retired teacher of physics and advanced mathematics, investigated a strange occurrence in the District of Columbia: Two respected, experienced black educators were fired for refusing to adopt the practices of the so-called Relay “Graduate School” of Education. Relay is not a real graduate school. It has no campus, no research, n
Carol Burris: What the Proposed Regulations for the Federal Charter Schools Program Really SayCharter school lobbyists have poured out lamentations about the U.S. Department of Education’s proposals to regulate the federal Charter Schools Program, which gives out $440 million to open new charter schools or expand existing charter schools. These lamentations are false, because the regulations have no effect at all on the 7,000+ existing charter schools. They are a good faith effort to clea
Boston to spend $7M to electrify 20 school buses as city heads toward fleet electrification https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/04/06/boston-to-spend-7m-to-electrify-20-school-buses-as-city-heads-toward-fleet-electrification/ California school board bans critical race theory - https://bayareane.ws/3jcidte on @mercnews
FBI arrests Mass. school official accused of texting 99 threats about police chief candidate https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-arrests-mass-school-superintendent-accused-texting-99-threats-poli-rcna23280 via @nbcnews Safe2Say school tip line shows mental health, bullying are top concerns, attorney general’s office says - https://www.inquirer.com/news/student-mental-health-hotline-pennsylvania-safe2say-statistics-20220406.html#new_tab via @PhillyInquirer Students with dyslexia could get private school vouchers under Tennessee bill https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/4/6/23014026/school-voucher-iea-expansion-dyslexia-tennessee via @ChalkbeatTN Austin ISD would lay off hundreds of staff to give teachers raises, under proposed budget https://www.kut.org/education/2022-04-07/austin-isd-is-laying-off
Generational – Not Partisan – Differences Tell the Story on Education Policy https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2022-04-06/generational-not-partisan-differences-tell-the-story-on-education-policy?src=usn_twSouth Carolina House passes transgender sports bill despite Democratic stall tactic of introducing 1,000 amendments https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-carolina-transgender-sports-ban-passes-house/ via @CBSPolitics First Person: To teach is to martyr. It shouldn’t be that way. - Chalkbeat - https://www.chalkbeat.org/2022/4/6/23010638/teacher-mental-health-schools-traumatic#new_tab on chalkbeat
Big Education Ape: THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Wednesday, April 6, 2022 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #StandWithUkraine️ - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-top-banana-todays-education_6.htmlBig Education Ape: THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Tuesday, April 5, 2022 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #StandWithUkraine️ - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-top-banana-todays-education_5.html
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Big Education Ape: CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: Can It Be April Already Edition (4/3) - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/04/catch-up-with-curmudgucation-icymi-can.html
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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/2022/04/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos.html
Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK Education Research Report - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/04/this-week-education-research-report.html
Big Education Ape: SSPI TONY THURMOND: STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/04/sspi-tony-thurmond-stuff-this-week-from.html 
