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More Colleges Say They'll Require Students To Have COVID-19 Vaccines For Fall https://www.npr.org/2021/04/11/984787779/should-colleges-require-covid-19-vaccines-for-fall-more-campuses-are-saying-yes

Southern California community plunged into turmoil after popular teacher filmed at Capitol riot http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRawStory/~3/uBewgaiyypA/

Parents, community members fight plan to close Bronx elementary school https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-bronx-elementary-school-closure-20210411-kcpv5rvpebf4xhjlb24lku5tuy-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/new-york/education/

Teachers union impressed with COVID-19 safety measures after touring Rio Rancho school | KOB 4 - https://www.kob.com/new-mexico-news/teachers-union-impressed-with-covid-19-safety-measures-after-touring-rio-rancho-school/6069767/ on @KOB4

Sacramento City Unified School District set to return to in-person learning https://www.abc10.com/video/news/local/sacramento/sacramento-city-unified-school-district-set-to-return-to-in-person-learning/103-f88fe5b7-a59f-4ab0-9702-3e6ca5c2bed1

A Once-in-a-Century Crisis Can Help Educate Doctors https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/opinion/sunday/covid-medical-school-humanities.html

Yes, Let’s Stop Talking About A “Lost Year” – And “Learning Loss” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=116825 on @Larryferlazzo

Big Education Ape: CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: Spring Might Be Here Edition (4/11) - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/catch-up-with-curmudgucation-icymi_11.html

Big Education Ape: Parents, Stop Talking About the ‘Lost Year’ - The New York Times - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/parents-stop-talking-about-lost-year.html

Big Education Ape: EdAction in Congress April 11, 2021 - Education Votes - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/edaction-in-congress-april-11-2021.html

Big Education Ape: Students didn't just learn nothing during school closures — they actually regressed, study says | Salon.com - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/students-didnt-just-learn-nothing.html

Big Education Ape: John Thompson: How Corporate Reform Devastated My School | Diane Ravitch's blog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/john-thompson-how-corporate-reform.html

Big Education Ape: Yong Zhao and William McDiarmid: Time to Rethink Standardized Testing | Diane Ravitch's blog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/yong-zhao-and-william-mcdiarmid-time-to.html

Education Matters: Now that the testing EO has come out, the big question is what will DCPS do?

by Mike Simpson / 2h

Now that the testing EO has come out, the big question is what will DCPS do? If the past is prologue, the answer to that question is the opposite of what is right. They will still use the tests to bludgeon teachers and save money. Who wants to make a bet what they will do? First, some random thoughts. Executive orders from the state diminish the power of localities. They make Corcoran a de facto

How Teachers Handle the Death of George Floyd (Dan Levin) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

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How Teachers Handle the Death of George Floyd (Dan Levin) Dan Levin writes for the New York Times . “He was a foreign correspondent covering Canada from 2016 until 2018. From 2008 to 2015, Mr. Levin was based in Beijing, where he reported on human rights, politics and culture in China and Asia. @globaldan “ This article appeared April 7, 2021. At this point in the school year, Lacrissha Walton t

A year ago today, another loss | JD2718

by Mike Simpson / 2h

A year ago today, another loss A UFT Executive Board Meeting is wrapping. I’m not sure when. Not in the last two years. I’d disagreed with Mulgrew. Or Weingarten. Or Michael Mendel (I miss Michael). Or maybe a DR meeting, and I had spoken sharply. Whatever. The meeting is over, and a slight figure, smiling, comes over, to explain that I spoke well, but that there really was no disagreement. Well

Upper West Side Mommies Sue to Reopen Schools - south bronx school com

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http://www.southbronxschool.com Upper West Side Mommies Sue to Reopen Schools Those "open the schools" folks are starting to bore me. According to today's New York Post, three Upper West Side mommies (Allison Weinger, Natalya Murakhver, and Stephanie Kokinos ) put word through Go Fund me to raise $20k for a lawyer to take the DOE to court to force schools to go 100% in person. As of yesterday, Ap

Choosing Democracy: Teaching Ethnic Studies in Sacramento

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Teaching Ethnic Studies in Sacramento On March 16, 2021, we invited a panel of teachers from SCUSD to share about the teaching of Ethnic Studies. We invite you to view the powerful presentations, Hosted and sponsored by the Black Parallel School Board. Teachers at work. e BPSB landing page for the video: https://blackparallelschoolboard.com/teaching-ethnic-studies/ Excellent discussion of the is

NYC Public School Parents: Carranza's new gig with IXL Learning, and its defective and stressful product that DOE has paid millions for & subjected NYC students to use

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Carranza's new gig with IXL Learning, and its defective and stressful product that DOE has paid millions for & subjected NYC students to use In the NY Post today, Sue Edelman wrote an expose of an ed tech company , IXL Learning, that recently hired former DOE Chancellor Richard Carranza two weeks after he left office. As I was quoted as saying, "I have no gripe about Carranza getting whatever jo

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TOP POSTS THIS WEEK Saturday, April 10, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #openonlywhensafe #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform

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Big Education Ape TOP POSTS THIS WEEK 4/10/21 Biden promised to end federal funding of for-profit charter schools. A new report explains how they operate. - The Washington Post Huge cash influx pouring into Kansas City school board races | The Kansas City Star Secretary of Education Joins Senator Warren and Senator Schumer for Discussion With Student Loan Borrowers and Advocates + HBCU Capital Fi

THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Saturday, April 10, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #openonlywhensafe #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform

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Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES President Biden calls for historic investment in Title I https://educationvotes.nea.org/2021/04/09/president-biden-calls-for-historic-

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Parents, Stop Talking About the ‘Lost Year’ - The New York Times

Parents, Stop Talking About the ‘Lost Year’ - The New York Times

Parents, Stop Talking About the ‘Lost Year’

Teenagers and tweens will be fine, experts say — if adults model resilience.

They’re calling it a “lost year.”

On and offline, parents are trading stories — poignant and painful — about all of the ways that they fear their middle schoolers are losing ground.

“It’s really hard to put my finger on what happened exactly,” said Jorge Gallegos, whose son, Eyan, is in the seventh grade in Washington, D.C.

When Eyan was in fifth grade, he had a lot of friends, Mr. Gallegos said. He was home schooled for sixth grade, and he seemed to thrive.

But spending this year at home because of the pandemic has just been too much.

Eyan transferred to a new middle school for seventh grade, where nearly all of the other students had started in the sixth grade, prepandemic. He hasn’t met any of his classmates in person, and he hasn’t made a single friend.

Eyan has told his parents that he’s lonely. So lonely, in fact, that he has started posting on Discord and Reddit. Sometimes, when he’s bored, he even starts chatting with those strangers during class time.

His dad is sympathetic. “He wants to talk to people, and he doesn’t have anybody,” Mr. Gallegos said in a recent phone interview. But he’s also worried.

As a teenager, Mr. Gallegos went off the rails for a time. He was kicked out of high school, withdrew from community college twice and spent years fighting his way back, ultimately graduating from college and building a successful career with the federal government. There’s no way he’ll let the pandemic similarly spin his son’s life out of control.

“I’m going to make sure that we’re on top of this stuff,” he said. “I think as a parent, I have to do more.”

Virtually everyone has waded through hardships this past year — job losses, relationship struggles, chronic stress and, in the worst of all cases, the loss of loved ones to Covid-19. And parents with school-age children have battled the demands of combining their usual work and family responsibilities with at least some degree of CONTINUE READING: Parents, Stop Talking About the ‘Lost Year’ - The New York Times