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TODAY

Watters: Toward a Future Of Humanity, Caring, and Grace

by dianeravitch / 16min

Audrey Watters gave a talk at the Academic Technology Institute. I am always interested in her writing because she is truly an original thinker. She sees the future of surveillance, control, and loss of human agency. She is our Cassandra. Some things never change. Some things seem to change despite our efforts. Audrey gives up hope in a desperate time that we can still stop the machines that seek

Audrey Watters: From Grief to Resistance

by dianeravitch / 1h

Audrey Watters summarizes the present crisis that grips the nation. Uncontainable. Inconsolable. Over the past few months, we have all experienced the grotesque failures of the state, and we’ve all lost something to the pandemic — directly or indirectly from the disease. But racism and white supremacy are the scourge that have destroyed so much more, for so much longer. “America Is Giving Up on t

Arkansas: Preparing to Sell the Children to Tech Entrepreneurs

80by dianeravitch / 2h

Cathy Frye is a veteran journalist who worked for the Arkansas Public School Resource Center, then quit when she decided she could no longer stomach being part of the Walton Goubdation machine. She writes here about the plan to outsource schooling this fall to a tech corporation that is under investigation. She writes: I got curious and took a little gander today at the Arkansas Public School Cen

Pennsylvania: Charter Leader Steps Down After Writing that Floyd Protestors “Disgust” Her

by dianeravitch / 3h

The Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools [sic] announced that its executive director had stepped down. This followed the controversy that erupted after she wrote on her Facebook page that the protests over George Floyd’s brutal killing disgusted her, then removed the post. Too late.

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Trump’s Goofiest Lie

by dianeravitch / 14h

Trump is desperate to justify his threat to send the military to “dominate” America’s cities. He is also shaken by his declining poll numbers. So he tweeted that the 75-year-old Buffalo man who was roughly shoved to the ground by police officers and got a bad head wound was actually part of an ANTIFA (“anti-fascist”) group of provocateurs, and he staged his own mishap, perhaps as a publicity stun

DeVos Insists on Denying Federal CARES Aid to Undocumented Students

33by dianeravitch / 22h

In another act of gratuitous cruelty, Betsy DeVos insists that undocumented students should get no emergency aid, although Congress did not pass such a restriction. Politico reports: DEVOS SEEKS TO ENFORCE RESTRICTIONS ON PANDEMIC RELIEF GRANTS THROUGH REGULATION: The Trump administration will roll out a new regulation this week that restricts which college students may receive emergency grants t

Trump Unilaterally Pulls Significant Number of U.S. Troops Out of Germany, to Spite Angela Merkel

23by dianeravitch / 23h

The editorial board of the Washington Post denounced Trump for abruptly withdrawing one-third of American troops from Germany, in retaliation for Chancellor Merkel’s rejection of his invitation to have a snap summit. IN A transparent attempt to boost his sagging political fortunes, President Trump proposed to stage a summit meeting of the Group of Seven nations in Washington this month, with Vlad

Jamaal Bowman for Congress in the Bronx!

by dianeravitch / 1d

I have known Jamaal Bowman as an enlightened educator and a fighter for social justice. Right now, he is running for Congress against a senior Democrat, Elliot Engel. Engel is a 16-term member of Congress and chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. Most people think of Jamaal as a long shot. But the times are changing. Jamaal has raised nearly $1 million. He was endorsed by AOC. He is young and e

Boston: “Here’s Monica, with a Sea of People Behind Her”

by dianeravitch / 1d

This is a story of a community organizer, Monica Cannon-Grant, who has used her character, determination, and passion to create a force on behalf of the black community of Boston. She is relentless. She demonstrates the power of one person to make change. She makes real the quote attributed to Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world: i

Colin Powell, GW Bush, Other GOP Leaderrs Will Not Vote for Trump

40by dianeravitch / 1d

Trump is losing the support of prominent Republican figures and military leaders. They can’t support the re-election of a man who is systematically destroying the country. WASHINGTON — It was one thing in 2016 for top Republicans to take a stand against Donald J. Trump for president: He wasn’t likely to win anyway, the thinking went, and there was no ongoing conservative governing agenda that wou

DeVos Illegally Seizes $2.2 Billion from Indebted College Students

100+by dianeravitch / 1d

Just when you think Betsy DeVos, like Trump, has hit rock bottom, she does another utterly vile deed to harm vulnerable students. Get this: in the middle of a global pandemic and an economic meltdown, with millions of people out of work, the DeVos Department of Education ilegally seized $2.2 billion from students who were in debt. Adam S. Minsky wrote in Forbes: In response to a class action laws

Insult of the Day in the Wall Street Journal

39by dianeravitch / 1d

The Wall Street Journal, which has a teacher-bashing, union-hating pro-privatization editorial board, published an editorial warning about the dangers of policing the police. The editorial included these sentences. “There’s a case for police reforms, in particular more public transparency about offenses by 

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Most Popular Posts Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3min

I’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 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 THIRTE

“Schools Should Be ‘Community Connecters’ When They Reopen”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h

Schools Should Be ‘Community Connecters’ When They Reopen is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Three educators share what they think school reopening should look like, including making it an opportunity to emphasize literacy and community connections. Here are some excerpts:

YESTERDAY

Ed Tech Digest

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

Eight years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2019 – PART TWO , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this

New Resources On Race & Racism

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

Events this week have – once again – highlighted why we (and I mean us white educators) need to emphasize anti-racist education. I’m adding these new resources to various “Best” lists. You can find links to all of those many lists that relate to race and racism at “Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources For Teaching & Learning About Race & Racism: There has been increasing demands to “Defund the Poli

June 19th Is “Juneteenth” – Here Are Related Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

Here’s a description of Juneteenth from TIME : Juneteenth is a contraction of the date “June Nineteenth.” On that day in 1865 in Galveston (then Texas’ largest city), Union General Gordon Granger issued General Order Number 3, which stated: “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.” Coming 10 weeks after

CA Dept. Of Education Release Not-Very-Helpful Guidelines For Reopening Schools

by Larry Ferlazzo / 14h

Pexels / Pixabay The California Department today released a 62 page guidebook for school districts about how to reopen schools in the fall. It’s different from the state health guidelines released last week (see STATE OF CALIFORNIA RELEASES SCHOOL REOPENING GUIDELINES – IT’S GOING TO BE A HELL OF A FALL ) and, to tell the truth, probably less helpful. This new document is primarily a list of ques

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

by Larry Ferlazzo / 19h

BiljaST / 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 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO. A

This Week’s Resources To Support Teachers Coping With School Closures

by Larry Ferlazzo / 19h

Wokandapix / Pixabay I have a number of regular weekly features (see HERE IS A LIST (WITH LINKS) OF ALL MY REGULAR WEEKLY FEATURES ). This is a relatively new addition to that list. Some of these resources will be added to The Best Advice On Teaching K-12 Online (If We Have To Because Of The Coronavirus) – Please Make More Suggestions ! and the best will go to The “Best Of The Best” Resources To

Hong Kong Protest Began One Year Ago Today – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 20h

StockSnap / Pixabay The amazing Hong Kong pro-democracy protests began one year ago today. There are many related resources at The Best Sites For Learning About Protests In History .

“Visions for the Next School Year”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Visions for the Next School Year is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators offer suggestions for how to reopen schools in the fall, including highlighting the importance of “outside-of-the-box” 

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