Continuous improvement: Rethink how we measure student progress - https://hechingerreport.org/?p=75771 via @hechingerreport
Betsy DeVos 'made a mess of the student loan program': potential Biden pick for education secretary - https://money.yahoo.com/heres-what-bidens-possible-education-secretary-pick-plans-to-do-173505627.html on @Yahoo
New Yorkers who could fill Biden’s cabinet | City & State NY - https://www.cityandstateny.com/node/10976
D.C. chancellor Ferebee says schools will reopen in February - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-school-reopening-plan/2020/12/03/88251930-34a1-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_local-education
Texas teachers should be among first to receive COVID-19 vaccine, superintendents say - https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2020/12/02/texas-teachers-should-be-among-first-to-receive-covid-19-vaccine-superintendents-say/#new_tab via @dallasnews
About 25% of kids in this N.J. school district are ditching remote learning every day, superintendent says - nj.com - https://www.nj.com/education/2020/12/about-25-of-kids-in-this-nj-school-district-are-ditching-remote-learning-every-day-superintendent-says.html#new_tab on @njdotcom
Sheriff: Woodbridge Elementary Student Dies By Suicide During Online Class https://cbsloc.al/36zzXtb#.X8kqoKY8ldQ.twitter
Virginia lawmaker pushes for bill offering education vouchers | WFXRtv - https://www.wfxrtv.com/?p=541635
Mayor to NYC students: Show up or risk losing in-school spot - New York Daily News - https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-in-person-learning-attendance-20201202-tuqnsubnqndz5glumtg672zhra-story.html#new_tab via @nydailynews
Mich. school must comply with mask mandate by Friday or face closure - https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/12/01/michigan-school-must-comply-mask-mandate-friday-face-closure/6476887002/#new_tab via @detroitnews
School closings threaten gains of students with disabilities - https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-fd26be67a40112130b59f946577c86d8#new_tab on @ap
COVID-19 in Indiana: Teachers could be in second group for the vaccine - https://www.indystar.com/story/news/education/2020/12/03/covid-19-indiana-teachers-could-second-group-vaccine/3807466001/#new_tab via @indystar
Top Lightfoot aide apologizes for scotch-and-cigars joke that ‘fell flat’ during teachers strike - Chicago Sun-Times - https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2020/12/2/22149182/mayor-lightfoot-bet-scotch-cigars-chicago-teachers-union-strike-frisch-email#new_tab
Ohio's online students must take state tests in person — many aren't - https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2020/12/02/despite-learning-online-ohio-students-taking-state-standardized-tests-in-person-but-many-arent/6463840002/#new_tab via @DispatchAlerts
Kentucky COVID-19 school restrictions: Kavanaugh asks Beshear to reply - https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/education/2020/12/02/kentucky-covid-19-school-restrictions-kavanaugh-asks-beshear-reply/3799510001/#new_tab via @courierjournal
There are 23,000 fewer students enrolled in Mississippi public schools this year. It's unclear where they went. | Mississippi Today - https://mississippitoday.org/?p=898573 by @kayanneskinner on @MSTODAYnews
Nancy MacLean: How the Koch Network Fosters Disinformation If you have not read Duke Professor Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains , you should. I reviewed it for the New York Review of Books here. It describes in great detail how the Koch brothers created an academic foundation for their extremist libertarian views. In this paper, MacLean goes into new detail about the workings of the Koch netw
As COVID-19 Continues, Classroom Learning Gaps Between Haves And Haves-Nots Are Getting Wider They attend the same schools and have the same teachers, but some kids have started to fall behind their wealthier classmates. As soon as schools reopened in September, it was apparent that the gaps in her son’s classroom between the haves and the have-nots had grown, says parent Amina Scott. Scott susp
The Complete Education We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character -- that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of soci
Houston: Why HISD Should Have the Best Teachers in the Nation By Now Audrey Amrein Beardsley writes here about Houston’s experience with value-added evaluation of its teachers . The Houston Independent School District (HISD) contracted with William Sanders’ SAS to provide a model to calculate the “value-added” of its teachers from 2007-2017. Teachers objected that the method of calculating their
How a soccer club won a $1.2 million grant from DeVos’s Education Department to open a charter school Here’s a new, rather remarkable story about charter school grants recently awarded by the Education Department — including one for more than $1 million that went to a soccer club in Pennsylvania that had no experience running a school. This is one of a number of pieces I have run in recent years
Election Polling and the Big Standardized Test From the Washington Post to the Wall Street Journal to the Atlantic and beyond, writers weeks after the election castigating the pollsters for yet another less-than-stellar year. But education writer Larry Ferlazzo moved on to another question—” Could Polling Errors in the 2020 Election Teach Us Something About The Use Of ‘Data’ In Education. ” He’s
Politics in the Zoom Room The pandemic pivot to online learning has amped up accusations that teachers are indoctrinating students, as parents “see” what their kids are being taught. We talk to teacher Christina Torres about why politics belongs in the classroom now more than ever. And historian Jon Zimmerman walks us through the long tradition of parents pushing back against classroom content –
LESS TEAM FIDELITY AND MORE TEAM WORK WOULD BE WELCOME “I’m stuck on this planet with you. And honestly, I’m glad. I’ve been exposed to a lot of awful people in the last few months, but I’ve met so many more that are amazing, thoughtful, generous, and kind. I honestly believe that is the human condition. And if the Carls are testing us, this final test is the hardest to accomplish. If you pay at
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 Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007 - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2020/11/this-week-i
Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Master Plan for Early Learning and Care - Year 2020 (CA Dept of Education) - https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr20/yr20rel97.asp Critics fault California's blueprint for early education - Los Angeles Times -
Nancy MacLean: How the Koch Network Fosters Disinformation
If you have not read Duke Professor Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains, you should. I reviewed it for the New York Review of Bookshere. It describes in great detail how the Koch brothers created an academic foundation for their extremist libertarian views. In this paper, MacLean goes into new detail about the workings of the Koch network and its efforts to undermine democracy. The Koch network knows that it does not have popular support so it has developed ways to “work around” the will of the majority. Currently, its major project is to block any effort to confront climate change.
The paper is titled “Since We Are Greatly Outnumbered: Why and How the Koch Network Uses Disinformation to Thwart Democracy.” The essay appears in a publication called The Disinformation Age,published by Cambridge University Press.
Thanks to “Unkoch My Campus” for bringing this paper to a large audience.
As COVID-19 Continues, Classroom Learning Gaps Between Haves And Haves-Nots Are Getting Wider
They attend the same schools and have the same teachers, but some kids have started to fall behind their wealthier classmates.
As soon as schools reopened in September, it was apparent that the gaps in her son’s classroom between the haves and the have-nots had grown, says parent Amina Scott. Scott suspects that some kids had access to enrichment programs and hands-on help during the many months that schools and summer camps were shut down, and some, like her third-grade son, had not.
Scott’s son, Yasin, attends a public school in the affluent suburb of Newton, just outside Boston. He is bused from their home in the Roxbury neighborhood to the suburbs through a voluntary desegregation program called METCO. Yasin has always been at grade level or even ahead of his classmates, especially excelling in reading, says Scott. But this year, while attending in-person classes two times a week on a hybrid schedule, the dynamic shifted.
After months away from school, some of his classmates seemed to have mysteriously advanced, easily reciting concepts he says they were never taught. In the early weeks of class, Yasin came home upset, questioning where his classmates could have learned such material. He used to indulge his mom’s questions about what he was learning and how his day was, but he soon stopped wanting to talk about school, telling Scott that he had finished his homework even when he had skipped questions.
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character -- that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living.
If we are not careful, our colleagues will produce a group of closed-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, brethren! Be careful, teachers! ~MLK
It's a small wonder, a miracle indeed, when they discover an aspect of "we," often at first stumbling across it like over a super cool toy left in the middle of the living room floor.
Even if it's as simple as saying, "We are going up here now." Even that gives me confidence about our future.
The ones with siblings just a little bit older tend to learn it first, the joy of connecting with another child, and find their classmates a little slow sometimes. These are the ones who CONTINUE READING: Teacher Tom: The Complete Education
