It's Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... A VERY BUSY 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

It's Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... A VERY BUSY DAY 

The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Atlantic Begins Photo Series On Each State

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

pinkzebra / Pixabay The Atlantic Magazine recently began publishing a series of photos about each U.S. state. Unfortunately, they also began a metered “Paywall,” so you can only access a few of their articles each month without buying a subscription. They certainly could come in handy when teaching Geography. So far, they’ve done slideshows on: Wyoming Georgia Indiana Hawaii South Carolina

New Simon’s Cat Video For Valentine’s Day – I’ll Be Showing It To My Class!

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

biancamentil / Pixabay This new Simon’s Cat video for Valentine’s Day joins several others at The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day . They’re great to show to ELLs, who then have to talk and write about what they saw. I’ll be showing them on Friday!

Classroom Instruction Resources Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

Each week, I publish a post or two containing three or four particularly useful resources on classroom instruction, and you can see them all here. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES ON CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION IN 2019 – PART TWO. Here are this week’s picks: The Secret To Giving Great Feedback is a new and short TED Talk that offers a simple, but useful, formula to keep in mind when g

Great Video: “My Vote Don’t Count”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

Tumisu / Pixabay Thanks to Jenn Binis , I learned about this great video from YelloPain. It would obviously have to be played at a slow-speed for ELLs, but all students could do an analysis of it:

Most Popular Posts Of The Week

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

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

A Look Back: “Idolizing Just One Person Undermines The Struggle”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 12h

I thought that new – and veteran – readers might find it interesting if I began sharing my best posts from over the years. You can see the entire collection here . I originally shared this series of posts in 2010. You might also be interested in The Best Sites To Teach About African-American History . In addition, you might also find these related posts useful: Researchers Find That Science Textb

My New BAM! Radio Show Is On Culturally Responsive Instruction

by Larry Ferlazzo / 15h

12 Ways to Make Culturally Responsive Instruction Work in Your Classroom is the topic of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio show. I’m joined in the conversation by Lisa Stringfellow, Rocio P. del Castillo, Maurice McDavid, and Valentina Gonzalez, who have also all contributed written commentaries to my Education Week Teacher column. I’m adding this show to All My BAM Radio Shows – Linked With Descri

English Language Proficiency Assessments – What’s Happening Here In California & Elsewhere

35by Larry Ferlazzo / 19h

geralt / Pixabay English Language Learners in the United States are required to regularly take an English Language Proficiency Assessment to….assess their progress towards learning English. Several years ago, the federal government funded two separate state consortia to develop new versions of these tests (you can read many articles about that saga in the second-half of The Best Resources For Lea

Animated Video: “How a Young Girl Survived a Brutal Journey To the U.S. to Find Her Mother”

35by Larry Ferlazzo / 23h

Free-Photos / Pixabay This New Yorker animated video might provide a powerful language experience for English Language Learners to watch and then write about what they saw, as well as potentially connect to writing about 

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Bloomberg Blocks Release of His Comments at Aspen About Minorities and Guns

by dianeravitch / 18min

Four years ago, Michael Bloomberg spoke candidly in Aspen about his stop-and-frisk policies that targeted young black and Hispanic men, but he immediately requested that it not be released to the public. Although he was proud of his policy, he knew there was something that wasn’t right about targeting young minority males. Charles Blow of the New York Times wrote about the racist, disastrous poli

Tim Slekar and I Discuss My Book on “Busted Pencils”

by dianeravitch / 1h

Tim Slekar, one of the pioneers of the Resistance invited me to talk with him on his podcast Busted Pencils. We talked about SLAYING GOLIATH.

SomeDAM Poet: College Ready in Kindergarten

by dianeravitch / 2h

When Arne Duncan was Secretary of Education, he touted the idea that every student should be college ready. There has been considerable debate about which was Arne’s most memorable utterance. Some say it was his claim that Hurricane Katrina “was the best thing that ever happened to the schools of New Orleans,” despite the deaths of over 1,000 people. Others think it was his crack that the reason

Trump’s Budget for Education Eliminates the Scandal-Ridden Federal Charter School Program

44by dianeravitch / 2h

To the shock and consternation of charter school advocates, the Trump budget proposal abandons the controversial federal Charter Schools Program, turning it into a state bloc program that turns the money over to the states. The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools issued a scathing denunciation of the axing of the federal charter school programs, which has enriched the big corporate chart

Laura Chapman: EdReports is NOT Independent!

by dianeravitch / 2h

Laura Chapman writes: “EdReports, an independent curriculum review nonprofit, rates curriculum on three gateways: Text Quality, Building Knowledge, and Usability. Amplify CKLA earned a green rating in all three.” This should not be regarded as a trustworthy endorsement. Here is Why. Recall that the Common Core State (sic) Standards were first marketed as if they were not intended to be about curr

Trump Proposes Deep Cuts to Social Programs, Including Education

100+by dianeravitch / 3h

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) is in charge of the appropriations for most social programs. She released this list of the programs that the Trump administration wants to slash or gut. She stands in his way, which illustrates the 

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Education Reform De-professionalizes Women Educators – radical eyes for equity

Education Reform De-professionalizes Women Educators – radical eyes for equity

Education Reform De-professionalizes Women Educators

Who were your teachers?

In elementary school, nearly 9 of 10 teachers are women; by high school, about 6 of 10 are women. And nearly all of your teachers, 80%, were white (see NCES data).

As a student and a teacher, then, I have spent a great deal of my life in spaces where women are the overwhelmingly majority; often I am the only man in the room.

Recently, while I was presenting at two education conferences (South Carolina Council of Teachers of English and Wisconsin State Reading Association), I had several important experiences with recognizing teaching as a profession constituted by mostly women.

At SCCTE, I attended a session led by SC for Ed, making eye contact with one of the organization’s leaders at one point in recognition that I was the only man in the room. This session was on teacher activism and the need to inform state legislators about education while the state considers a major education bill.

As the discussion focused on many of the state representatives being condescending, I offered to the group that many of the problems faced in CONTINUE READING: Education Reform De-professionalizes Women Educators – radical eyes for equity