A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

A VERY BUSY DAY

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

The latest news and resources in education since 2007

TODAY

My Latest BAM! Radio Show Is On “Five Good Reasons and Five Great Ways to Teach With Music”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h

Five Good Reasons and Five Great Ways to Teach With Music is the topic of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show. I’m joined by Denise Facey, Alycia Owen, Jennifer Schwanke, Rachelle Dene Poth and Sara Lev, who have also contributed written commentaries to my Ed Week Teacher column. I’m adding this show to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descriptions .

New Video: “Frederick Douglass’ Descendants Read His Famous ‘Fourth of July’ Speech”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h

I have other videos of Frederick Douglass’ famous speech at The Best Websites For Learning About The Fourth Of July , but this new one from NPR is definitely unique. You can also read his speech here.

“Q&A Collections: Implementing the Common Core”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 3h

Q&A Collections: Implementing the Common Core is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts sharing advice on Implementing the Common Core (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt:

July 11th Is World Population Day – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

geralt / Pixabay The United Nations has declared July 11th to be World Population Day . You might be interested in The Best Resources For Learning About Our World’s Population Of 7 Billion .

This Is Interesting: “21 Lessons From America’s Worst Moments”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

Wokandapix / Pixabay TIME Magazine often asks a bunch of historians questions like “Who were the most influential Americans?” or “Who were the 100 most significant figures in history?” You can find links to all them at The Best “Lists Of Lists” Of Influential People, Events & Ideas . I use them as models when I have my students answer similar questions in class. Today, TIME shared the answers to

New Resources On What The Next School Year Might – Or Might Not – Look Like

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

Maklay62 / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : NYC schools will reopen in the fall, the mayor says. The governor says not so fast is from CNN. Government should treat the need to reopen schools as an emergency. is from The NY Times. How schools across the globe are reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic is from Ed Source. Why a Pe

A Look Back: Nine Long-Term Changes I Think The Distance Learning Crisis Will – & Will Not – Bring To Our Schools

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from the first half of this year. You can see the entire collection of best posts from the past thirteen years here . Tumisu / Pixabay Yesterday, I shared my predictions of what the next school year might look like (see It’s Going To Be A New Classroom World In The Fall – Here Is What I Think It

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

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

It Will Have Been 100 Years In August Since Some Women Were Granted The Right To Vote – Here Are Teaching & Learning Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

August will mark one-hundred years since the passage of the 19th Amendment. There will be lots of new resources coming online between now and then like today’s NY Times article, My _____ Was a Suffragist. I’ll be 

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DID YOU MISS DIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG TODAY? A site to discuss better education for all

Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all

DID YOU MISS DIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG TODAY? 

A site to discuss better education for all

White House Defense of Trump: He Didn’t Know! No One Told Him

by dianeravitch / 49min

Ignorance is usually not a good defense when you get caught. In Trump’s case, it is the default response when things go wrong. You could write a book about what Trump doesn’t know. He doesn’t know that Greenland is not for sale. He doesn’t know that Finland is not part of Russia. He doesn’t know that Frederick Douglass is a historical figure, not someone living today. He doesn’t know that climate

Kevin Welner on the Radical Espinoza Decision

by dianeravitch / 1h

Kevin Welner, a lawyer and specialist in education policy, wrote about the Espinoza decision at Valerie Strauss’s Answer Sheet in the Washington Post: On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision that was once unthinkable. It required the state of Montana to set aside its own constitution’s ban on direct or indirect funding of religious private schools: “A State need not subsidize private

Some States and Superintendents Seek Deferral of Standardized Tests Next Year

31by dianeravitch / 2h

The National Superintendents Roundtable reports that Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina want to suspend testing next year . Other states may follow their lead. The most important priority must be the health and safety of students and staff. On June 18, Georgia became one of the first states to seek an assessment waiver. Gov. Brian P. Kemp and State School Superintendent Richard Woods jointly anno

SAVE THE DATE! July 8, 7:30 pm to Join Me and Andre Perry

by dianeravitch / 3h

On July 8, you are invited to join a ZOOM discussion with me and Andre Perry. Andre Perry has written a new book KNOW YOUR PRICE: VALUING BLACK LIVES AND PROPERTY IN AMERICA’S BLACK CITIES. He was the leader in the New Orleans charter sector, then became disillusioned and left. I am fascinated with people who have the courage to change. Listen in to this conversation. We will talk for an hour, th

A Clarification about Los Angeles Police in Schools V. New York City

by dianeravitch / 20h

Anna Bakalis of United Teachers of Los Angeles writes a clarification: Got this from the LASPD site: Los Angeles School Police Department (LASPD)is the largest independent school police department in the United States, with over 410 sworn police officers, 101 non-sworn school safety officers (SSO), and 34 civilian support staff dedicated to serving the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

Leonie Haimson: New York City Has the Largest Police Presence in Schools

by dianeravitch / 21h

Leonie Haimson, executive director of Class Size Matters, takes issue with the claim that Los Angeles has the largest police force in schools in the country. LAUSD does not have the “largest school police force in the country” as claimed above (in UTLA press release). NYC DOE has more than 5,000 School Safety Officers who work for the NYPD, at a cost of nearly $500M — more than seven times the co

UTLA Approves Reallocation of Funding for Police in Los Angeles Public Schools

by dianeravitch / 22h

https://www.utla.net/news/utla-statement-lausd-vote-defund-school-police-budget-35 For immediate release July 1, 2020 Media Contact: Anna Bakalis 213-305-9654 UTLA Statement on LAUSD vote to defund school police budget by 35% The LAUSD School Board yesterday approved an immediate 35% cut to the LAUSD school police, after weeks of protests organized by Students Deserve and Black Lives Matter-LA th

Nancy Bailey: 22 Reasons Why Schools Should Not Open This Fall

100+by dianeravitch / 23h

Nancy Bailey has 22 reasons why schools should not open this fall. Here are the first four: 1. Illness and Russian Roulette According to the CDC, the risk might seem low for children, but they still get sick, some seriously. Children and teenagers have died. Questions still surround the disease. It’s not worth the risk. Maybe the situation will improve by January, or next summer. Currently we’re

Peter Greene: Supreme Court Just Poked Another Hole in Wall of Separation Between Church and State

34by dianeravitch / 1d

Peter Greene worries that the Espinoza decision is another step in the movement to establish the principle that the public should fund religious schools. He believes this is ominous. I don’t disagree. That’s why Trump and DeVos celebrated the Court’s decision that all state scholarships for private schools must include religious schools. I was pleased that the Court did not take the final step th

Steve Hinnefeld: The Supreme Court’s Mistaken View of American History in the Espinoza Decision

41by dianeravitch / 1d

Steve Hinnefeld blogs about education. He is based in Indiana, which has funded charters and vouchers, the latter despite a state constitution that bans funding religious schools. He writes here about the Supreme Court’s Espinoza decision that held that religious schools must be included in state programs that fund private schools (almost all state voucher programs already fund religious schools,

Derek Black: Untangling the Supreme Court’s Espinoza Decision

38by dianeravitch / 1d

Derek Black is a law professor at the University of South Carolina who specializes in education, civil rights, and equity. His new book, which I have read and intend to review here, is Schoolhouse Burning. It is phenomenal. It is a new history of American education that documents the historic role of 

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