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The Top Banana: Today's Education Headlines | Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/The-Top-Banana-Todays-Education-Headlines-730208504396249

CURMUDGUCATION: Did We Get Anything Out Of NCLB Accountability? - http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2021/08/did-we-get-anything-out-of-nclb.html

Censoring “Persepolis” | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-uyO via @dianeravitch

NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/ via @NewBlackMan

Peter Greene: What’s Wrong with For-Profit Charter Schools? | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-uAC via @dianeravitch

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ on @Larryferlazzo

EdAction in Congress August 15, 2021 - Education Votes - https://educationvotes.nea.org/2021/08/15/edaction-in-congress-august-15-2021/

deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog | Mostly Education; a Smattering of Politics & Pinch of Personal - https://wp.me/36Q2R on @wordpressdotcom

janresseger | "That all citizens will be given an equal start through a sound education is one of the most basic, promised rights of our democracy. —Senator Paul Wellstone — March 31, 2000 - https://wp.me/3JgEc via @janresseger

Big Education Ape: CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: Not Out Of The Woods Yet Edition (8/15) - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/sunday-august-8-2021-catch-up-with.html

Howard Lisnoff: The Charter School Juggernaut - Network For Public Education - https://networkforpubliceducation.org/blog-content/howard-lisnoff-the-charter-school-juggernaut/ on @Network4pubEd

Biden praises superintendents for school district mask mandates https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/08/14/biden-praises-superintendents-for-school-district-mask-mandates-1390041

Jill Biden on Her Teaching Experience, Community Colleges and Teacher Appreciation - https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a37198717/jill-biden-teacher-experiences/ on @goodhousemag

NEA announces support for educator vaccine and testing requirement | NEA - https://www.nea.org/about-nea/media-center/press-releases/nea-announces-support-educator-vaccine-and-testing on @NEAToday

Medical Professionals Call on Oakland School Leaders to Increase COVID-19 Protections for Children, Teachers and Families | Post News Group - https://www.postnewsgroup.com/?p=665448

Education Department sends letters to Texas and Florida governors amid school mask mandate fight - CNNPolitics - https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/politics/education-department-covid-miguel-cardona-florida-texas-schools-mask-mandate/index.html

Principals union says schools won't be able to fully reopen with DOE distancing policy - https://wp.me/pb3Qpq-1idSM by @nypmetro on @nypost

Paulo Freire Charter School staff picket, file labor charges - https://www.gazettenet.com/Paulo-Freire-Social-Justice-Charter-School-staff-picket-file-labor-charges-41953551 on @dailyhampgaz

DeSantis, Abbott face new challenges to bans on mask mandates as Biden administration steps in and parents head to court - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/14/desantis-abbott-biden-mask-mandate-challenges/

Opinion | The pandemic has become more dangerous for children. Here’s how to help keep them safe. - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/11/pandemic-has-become-more-dangerous-children-heres-how-help-keep-them-safe/

Death Rates Rise for Mississippi Children and Teens | Jackson Free Press | Jackson, MS - https://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/jun/19/death-rates-rise-mississippi-children-and-teens/ on @jxnfreepress

8th Grader Dies With COVID Hours After Reeves Downplays Child Cases - https://www.mississippifreepress.org/?p=14800 via @msfreepress

Pearl River High School Quarantines 40% Of Students In First Week - https://www.mississippifreepress.org/?p=14689 via @msfreepress

A Word … with Jason Johnson: Tuskegee’s Ghosts Haunt COVID Fight | NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2021/08/a-word-with-jason-johnson-tuskegees.html via @NewBlackMan

Tribal Leaders React To Removal Of Native Americans in Curriculum https://popularresistance.org/tribal-leaders-react-to-removal-of-native-americans-in-curriculum/

COVID-19 Cases Surge In US As Schools Reopen - https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/covid-19-cases-surge-in-us-as-schools-reopen-7334891.html via @moneycontrolcom

Q&A Collections: Administrator Leadership (Opinion) - https://www.edweek.org/leadership/opinion-q-a-collections-administrator-leadership/2021/08 by @Larryferlazzo on @educationweek

Amid mask and vaxx debates, US Jewish schools prepare for a third year of COVID | The Times of Israel - https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-mask-and-vaxx-debates-us-jewish-schools-prepare-for-a-third-year-of-covid/ on timesofisrael

Georgia County Shuts Down All Schools Amid Major Student COVID Outbreak https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ware-county-georgia-schools-shut-covid-delta_n_6118377fe4b0454ed70e5c52

With coronavirus cases rising, D.C. schools prepare to outline safety protocols for new academic year https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-schools-covid-quarantine-safety-protocols/2021/08/14/435cce64-fc57-11eb-943a-c5cf30d50e6a_story.html

Sunday’s New Articles & Videos On School Reopenings | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=119928 on @Larryferlazzo

3 Florida Educators Die Of COVID-19 Within 24 Hours As Schools Prepare To Reopen https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/08/14/1027730035/broward-county-florida-teachers-covid-coronavirus-deaths

Doubts, Anger and Anxiety: What It’s Like to Go to School Amid Covid-19 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/us/covid-school-reopening-anxiety.html

Child pandemic hospitalizations hit all-time high: 'This is not last year's COVID' http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRawStory/~3/qp0dqh_yxHo/

As California schools reopen, will there be a surge in independent study? http://edsource.org/?page_id=658998 via @edsource

School mask mandates spark protests from parents as COVID cases rise - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/08/15/school-mask-mandates-spark-protests-parents-covid-cases-rise/8124375002/ via @usatoday

Biden praises superintendents for school district mask mandates https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/14/biden-superintendents-district-mask-mandates-504531

Washington Heights Block Party Celebrates Victory In Decades-Long Fight For Quality Education – CBS New York - https://cbsloc.al/3mib9OH on /CBSnewyork

Mask mandate bans in schools: Here's what teachers want you to know - CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/15/us/teachers-mask-mandates-trnd/index.html

The Little School That Could: P.S. 25 Eubie Blake Will Remain Open - Bklyner - https://bklyner.com/the-little-school-that-could-p-s-25-eubie-blake-will-remain-open/

Will We Ever Be Able to Travel With Young Kids as Delta Spreads? - Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-25/will-we-ever-be-able-to-travel-with-young-kids-as-delta-spreads on @bopinion

'Your child will wait for another child to die.' Amid Covid-19 surge, Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left, county judge says - CNN - https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/us/dallas-county-no-pediatric-icu-beds-left/index.html

A High School Spanish Teacher’s Journey from Traditional Grades — Teachers Going Gradeless - https://www.teachersgoinggradeless.com/blog/high-school-spanish

How Not To Start Teachers’ New School Year - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2021/08/13/how-not-to-start-teachers-new-school-year/?sh=584654564303 by @palan57 on @forbes

Further Evidence That Common Core Did Real Harm To U.S. Education - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2021/08/09/further-evidence-that-common-core-did-real-harm-to-us-education/?sh=64065ec888d8 by @palan57 on @forbes

Can Universal Curriculum Help Our Schools? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2021/08/06/can-universal-curriculum-help-our-schools/?sh=37266d2d2b4c by @palan57 on @forbes

Purdue University Renames 2 Residence Halls After Sisters Who Fought for Black Students' Right to Live on Campus https://www.theroot.com/purdue-university-renames-2-residence-halls-after-siste-1847490263

One Question: How Can Public Schools Emerge from the Pandemic Better Than Before? https://progressive.org/magazine/one-question-public-schools-emerge-pandemic/ #press #feedly

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Big Education Ape: Saturday, August 7, 2021 TOP POSTS THIS WEEK Saturday, August14, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #TEACHtheTRUTH #CRT - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/saturday-august-7-2021-top-posts-this.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 - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos_14.html

Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK Education Research Report - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-week-education-research-report_14.html

Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) #BLM #BLACKLIVESMATTER - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-week-with-newblackman-in-exile-blm_14.html

Big Education Ape: SSPI TONY THURMOND: STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/sspi-tony-thurmond-stuff-this-week-from_14.html

Big Education Ape: TEACHER TOM THIS WEEK IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/teacher-tom-this-week-in-early_14.html

Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-weeks-wildness-dad-gone-wild_14.html

Big Education Ape: Network for Public Education Blog Post of the Day This Week #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/network-for-public-education-blog-post_14.html

Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK NEWS FROM DR. MIGUEL CARDONA AND THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-week-news-from-dr-miguel-cardona_14.html

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CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: Not Out Of The Woods Yet Edition (8/15)

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Not Out Of The Woods Yet Edition (8/15)

Take a deep breath and push on. In the meantime, here's some reading from the week.

Deep Divisions in Americans’ Views of Nation’s Racial History

Yeah, you'd already figured this out on your own, but the Pew Research people have some survey results to show just how different we are on how to view, deal with, and teach about our racial history. 

‘How Can I Follow a Law I Believe Endangers My Students?’

In states where the governor (one of those anti-big government overreach and local control guys) have imposed anti-anti-mask mandates, some school leaders are standing up anyway. In Ed Week, a defiant superintendent in Texas explains why.

A majority of parents favor mask mandates

From the Washington Post, info about a survey showing that mask mandates are preferred by the silent majority.

Furious mom demands school board revote

However, the really loud minority continues to be really loud.

Angry anti-masker punches teacher

And more than just loud...

Behind the Critical Race Furor

Is the crt panic another Koch-funded enterprise? Jasmine Banks at The Nation.

How Ohio's budget creates a path out of state takeover

Regular readers have heard about Ohio's school takeover law and the havoc it has wrought on Lorain, among others. Now there's a light at the end of that tunnel. Jan Resseger has done the reading.

How corporate school reforms and ed tech cause dangerous distrust about Covide-19

Nancy Bailey peels back the layers of chaos and distrust in the pandemic crisis.

The end of ed reform

At the Progressive, Jeff Bryant argues that modern ed reform is dead, and some other bad things are moving to takes its place.

The problem with private school vouchers

It has been a big year for pushing vouchers. Also in The Progressive's back-to-school issue, Jessica Levin runs through the various incursions of voucher policy in 2021.

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How Not To Start Teachers’ New School Year - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2021/08/13/how-not-to-start-teachers-new-school-year/?sh=584654564303 by @palan57 on @forbes

Further Evidence That Common Core Did Real Harm To U.S. Education - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2021/08/09/further-evidence-that-common-core-did-real-harm-to-us-education/?sh=64065ec888d8 by @palan57 on @forbes

Can Universal Curriculum Help Our Schools? - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2021/08/06/can-universal-curriculum-help-our-schools/?sh=37266d2d2b4c by @palan57 on @forbes

Did We Get Anything Out Of NCLB Accountability?

by Peter Greene / 19h

We're in the midst of the 20th anniversary of No Child Left Behind , a legislative offspring of bipartisan consensus that has itself been left behind by virtually everybody. The bill was proposed in March of 2001, spent the rest of the year wending its way through the process, to be signed into law at the very beginning of 2002. So pretty much any time this year is fair game for a 20 year retrosp

Speaking of Indoctrinatin' Literature: Ayn Rand in the Classroom

by Peter Greene / 3d

So here comes the umpteenth set of protests/complaints/caterwauling over literature in schools "promoting critical race theory," aka "any books with Black people in them." The Northampton Area School District of Northampton, PA was offered a a stack of books by The Conscious Kid , an organization that plans to donate 120,000 books "that foster anti-racist conversations and action" to 3,000 school

Where Is A Teacher's Staff?

by Peter Greene / 4d

I read about Penn State sports--not because I particularly care, and not even because my non-sporty daughter graduated from there, but because my nephew is a sports writer whose beat is mostly PSU. He's a good guy and the only person in my family who actually supports himself by writing. He recently dropped this piece about the coaching staff for Penn State football , and the stories of how they

Charter Schools Are Not Public Schools (Ex. #152,377)

by Peter Greene / 4d

In North Carolina, Charter Day School back in 2016 was sued by parents who objected to a dress code requiring girls to wear skirts, jumpers, or skorts. They just won that suit, sort of, but revealed somethiung about themselves in the winning. This is a school whose mission involves communicating through the arts and sciences. Charter Day School is part of the network of charters operated by Roger

Do 3rd Grade Tests Predict Anything?

by Peter Greene / 6d

The National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) is a program of the American Institute for Research (AIR) along with an assortment of universities. They've just released a working paper version of some research that some people think is pretty significant. I've read it so you don't have to. Let me explain what they found, and why nobody needs to get excited ab

ICYMI: Counting Down To School Edition (8/8)

by Peter Greene / 7d

Yes, the clock has started at our house. I'll be heading off to be a trombone consultant for an old friend/student's band camp starting tomorrow, and my wife's summer days are numbered. Here it comes, lurching towards us like a misaligned tractor with a flat tire and three bales of hay stuck in the wheel well. In the meantime, here are some reads from the week. Dyslexia Industry Scores California

FL: Bullying By Mask

by Peter Greene / 7d

Florida (state motto: Death to public education!) has been leaping to capitalize on the current COVID disaster, as witnessed by this extremely on-point headline: Florida Will Pay for Parents to Move Kids Into New Schools if They Experience ‘COVID-19 Harassment’ That's a very apt way to characterize a voucher program--the state will pay you to pull your kid out of public schools. You may have been

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