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TODAY’S UPDATE On New Resources To Help Educators

Figuring Out How To Support Students During School Closures 

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BIG Update Of New Useful Resources To Support Teachers At Closed Schools

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

photosforyou / Pixabay Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences What a day, and it’s still 9:30 in the morning! It’s the first day of our closure, we’re supposed to learn from the district later today their plan going forward, the Remind app I use to communicate with students is down, a zillion things are hap

New Wash. Post Video: “What the 1918 influenza pandemic can teach us about the coronavirus outbreak”

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Alexey_Hulsov / Pixabay When teaching about the Coronavirus, this new Washington Post video could be useful. I’m adding it to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS. Especially in the second half of that list, you’ll find useful resources about the history of epidemics and about xenophobia.

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Monday’s Resources To Support Teachers Dealing With School Closures

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

TerriAnneAllen / Pixabay Here are new additions to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! : Powerful Learning Practice is offering a free Remote Learning Webinar Series . Slate talked about Scholastic’s BookFlix service….Scholastic has created a generic login and password (username: Learning20 / password: Clifford) to unl

“Reflections on Our Favorite Teachers”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

Reflections on Our Favorite Teachers is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators reflect on their own favorite teachers and the support and encouragement those past models provided to them. I also include this COVID-19 commentary: Editor’s Note: Obviously, the main thing on all of our minds is not the qualities of our favorite teachers—it’s the coronavirus and its i

Google Is Providing Free Chromebooks To Students Without Devices In Closed Japanese Schools – How About Here?

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PhotoMIX-Company / Pixabay I just learned that Google recently began a program called Google for Education Distance Learning Support Program: Google for Education offers distance learning support programs for schools that are closed. The contents include a Chromebook free loan, G Suite for Education new registration support, and online content for distance learning. Google mentioned it in a post

The Four Best Tools For Taking Existing Videos & Making Them Interactive For Online Learning

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

StartupStockPhotos / Pixabay I’ve obviously been spending a lot of time on online teaching and learning issues lately ( The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! ), and I’m not the only one. Interactive videos can be one helpful instructional tool. Here are my choices for the best – and easiest – ways taking any existing vid

Wow – Ohio Governor Says He Wouldn’t Be Surprised If Schools Don’t Reopen This Year

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I’m obviously spending a lot of time thinking about school closures, and the thought of closing down for the rest of the school year had not even occurred to me: The odds are “this is going to go on a lot longer and it would not surprise me at all if schools did not open again this year,” Ohio @GovMikeDeWine says about the long-term impact of the coronavirus. #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/i0luWcQVzX —

Sunday’s Update On New Resources To Help Educators Figuring Out How To Support Students During School Closures

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geralt / Pixabay I’ve just been sharing the resources that I feel to be particularly helpful and adding them to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions! At a certain point, however, it just gets to be too much. I’m probably approaching that time, and will likely begin reducing the number of related resources I’ll be sharing

Let Me Know If You’re Teaching K-12 Students Online Because Of COVID-19 & Would Like To Write A Guest Post About Your Experiences

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

pixelcreatures / Pixabay I’ve been publishing a series of posts to assist teachers who might need to teach online if their schools are closed because of the Coronavirus. You can see them all at The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 

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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Millions of students could be home for the rest of academic year because of coronavirus, officials warn

Millions of students may remain out of school for the rest of the academic year in an effort to stop the spread of a deadly coronavirus that has reached pandemic status around the world, officials in several states are warning.

As of late Sunday, 33 states and the District of Columbia had decided to close public schools, according to a tally maintained by Education Week. When combined with the closure of specific school districts in other states at least 32.5 million public school students attending at least 64,000 schools have seen their education interrupted because of the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 6,000 people worldwide.

With the country facing an unprecedented public health crisis, schools have been ordered closed for days or weeks or even a month.

But officials in several states are now warning the closures could be longer, even through the end of the school year. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday morning that it was even possible that schools would be shut even longer. CONTINUE READING: Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

States waive mandated standardized tests; SAT cancels May exam, and April’s ACT is rescheduled

by Valerie Strauss / 1h

Here's what's happening -- and where.

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Millions of students could be home for the rest of academic year because of coronavirus, officials warn

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At least 32.5 million U.S. public school students have had their educations interrupted.

How long should schools close during coronavirus pandemic? Here’s exactly what the CDC says.

1Kby Valerie Strauss / 1d

There has been some confusion about its guidance.

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National Education Association, nation’s largest union, endorses Joe Biden for president

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Here's why it made the decision -- even though Bernie Sanders has received a lot of support from teachers.

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Standardized tests — including the SAT — are being canceled or delayed amid coronavirus pandemic

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Now whole states are closing schools, possibly wreaking havoc with testing schedules.

Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Shanker Blog: Interpreting School Finance Measures | National Education Policy Center

Shanker Blog: Interpreting School Finance Measures | National Education Policy Center

Shanker Blog: Interpreting School Finance Measures

Last week we released the second edition of our annual report, "The Adequacy and Fairness of State School Finance Systems," which presents key findings from the School Finance Indicators Database (SFID). The SFID, released by the Shanker Institute and Rutgers Graduate School of Education (with my colleagues and co-authors Bruce Baker and Mark Weber), is a free collection of sophisticated finance measures that are designed to be accessible to the public. At the SFID website, you can read the summary of our findings, download the full report and datasets, or use our online data visualization tools.

The long and short of the report is that states vary pretty extensively, but most fund their schools either non-progressively (rich and poor districts receive roughly the same amount of revenue) or regressively (rich districts actually receive more revenue), and that, in the vast majority of states, funding levels are inadequate in all but the most affluent districts (in many cases due to a lack of effort).

One of the difficulties in producing this annual report is that the our "core" measures upon which we focus (effort, adequacy, and progressivity) are state-level, and it's not easy to get attention for your research report when you basically have 51 different sets of results. One option is assigning states grades, like a school report card. Often, this is perfectly defensible and useful. We decided against it, not only because assigning grades would entail many arbitrary decisions (e.g., where to set the thresholds), but also because assigning grades or ratings would risk obscuring some of the most useful conclusions from our data. Let's take a quick look at an example of how this works.

The scatterplot below is taken directly from our report. Each red dot represents a state. The measure on the vertical axis is the adequacy of states' spending on K-12 education in its highest poverty districts. More specifically, it represents actual spending divided by the spending level that would be required for the highest poverty districts (i.e., the 20 percent highest poverty districts) in that state to achieve CONTINUE READING: Shanker Blog: Interpreting School Finance Measures | National Education Policy Center