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Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Education Research Report: Condition of Education 2021 IES NCES National Center for Education Statistic

Education Research Report: Condition of Education 2021

Condition of Education

The Condition of Education contains indicators on the state of education in the United States, from prekindergarten through postsecondary education, as well as labor force outcomes and international comparisons. Beginning with the 2021 edition, the Condition of Education also includes indicators from the former Indicators of School Crime and Safety. This year’s edition also includes two Spotlight indicators, which use experimental data from the Household Pulse Survey to examine preliminary educational impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, particularly related to online learning at both the K-12 and postsecondary levels.

Readers can browse the Condition of Education Indicator System online and download PDFs of individual indicators. The new, more user-friendly Report on the Condition of Education, which highlights and synthesizes key findings from the Condition of Education, is now available in PDF format.

Key findings from the report include:

Among adults with children under 18 in the home enrolled in public or private school, two-thirds reported in September 2020 that classes had been moved to a distance learning format using online resources.
Among adults with at least one household member planning to take postsecondary classes in fall 2020, 45 percent reported that classes for at least one household member would be in different formats.
In fall 2018, public charter school enrollment accounted for 7 percent (3.3 million students) of public enrollments, more than doubling from 3 percent (1.6 million students) in 2009.
In 2018–19, the U.S. average adjusted cohort graduation rate (ACGR) for public high school students was 86 percent, the highest rate since ACGR was first measured, in 2010–11.
Of the 3.2 million high school completers who graduated in the first 9 months of 2019, some 2.1 million, or 66 percent, were enrolled in college in October 2019.
At the international level, the United States ranked in the top 25 percent of participating education systems in both mathematics and science at both the 4th and 8th grade levels in the 2019 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).

Education Research Report: Condition of Education 2021

Board of UNC-Chapel Hill Denies Tenure to Distinguished Journalist | Diane Ravitch's blog

Board of UNC-Chapel Hill Denies Tenure to Distinguished Journalist

The faculty at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill selected the highly accomplished Nikole Hannah-Jones to serve as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism at the UNC Haussmann School of Journalism and Media.

She was quite a catch: she has won a Pulitzer Prize, a coveted MacArthur Fellowship, has worked for major newspapers. She’s even an alumna of UNC. The committee that interviewed her was impressed. They offered her the chair and tenure. All previous holders of the chair at UNC were awarded tenure.

But the board of the university withdrew the offer of tenure. They said she lacked academic qualifications. They made that lie up on the spot, because the position CONTINUE READING: Board of UNC-Chapel Hill Denies Tenure to Distinguished Journalist | Diane Ravitch's blog

NEWS FROM SSPI TONY THURMOND AND THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

California Department of Education

NEWS FROM SSPI TONY THURMOND

AND THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Child Nutrition Programs Questions and Answers

This USDA policy memo provides guidance to clarify CNP oversight and administrative questions for State agencies and program operators.

CACFP At-Risk Nationwide Waiver Clarification

Provides guidance on the questions that CACFP At-Risk centers have from April's Town Hall. The main focus is if serving the At-Risk Afterschool Program meals/snacks over the summer months is allowable.

Information on the EBB Program

The Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB) Program is a new, temporary Federal program to help eligible families pay for internet service during the pandemic.

Farm to Summer Celebration Week: Pre-Survey

The Farm to Summer Celebration Week is a recognition program for Summer Meal Program operators that complete three elements: taste, teach, and connect during the designated week of June 21–25, 2021.

Consolidated Appropriations Act–Effect on CNPs

Provides a summary of SP 11-2021, CACFP 10-2021, and SFSP 06-2021, specifically sections 743, 764, 767 and 789 and their effects on the Child Nutrition Programs (CNPs).

California Department of Education

American Rescue Plan: Organizing for Equity | Schott Foundation for Public Education

American Rescue Plan: Organizing for Equity

The scale of the broad federal funding in the American Rescue Plan (ARP) presents an opportunity for transformative change – but only if funds are invested to address systemic racism and advance equity. This requires sustained organizing to ensure accountability and community participation to direct investments – and ongoing, transparent structures to incorporate community input.

This page offers resources to support that organizing, some Schott has developed, and many more gathered from partners. It’s information to understand components of ARP, and to provide insights into how communities across the country are mobilizing.

We encourage you to add to this collaborative hub—email materials and links to communications@schottfoundation.org .

How much money will go to my state and district?

Over the past year, Congress has allocated billions to states and districts in three major acts: June 2020’s CARES Act, December 2020’s CRRSA, and March 2021’s American Rescue Plan (ARP). While those bills funded many things, the education portion of those bills are considered “ESSER” funds. So CARES education money is “ESSER I”, CRRSA’s is “ESSER II”, and ARP’s is “ESSER III”. CONTINUE READING: American Rescue Plan: Organizing for Equity | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Childcare is critical infrastructure and for families of color, it’s even MORE critical | Eclectablog

Childcare is critical infrastructure and for families of color, it’s even MORE critical

The following essay was written by Krystle DuPree, a working mother and member of the Ann Arbor School Board. The views expressed here are hers and not those of the Ann Arbor School Board, her employer, or any other group.

Enjoy.

In March of 2020, the world as we knew it came to a grinding halt. Restaurants lowered their numbers to a close. A new fashion and safety accessory emerged as we all covered our faces in crowded spaces. Most significantly, schools and childcare centers that served as essential support to parents and working families closed their doors in the name of health and safety. However, although schools and childcare centers closed, for many parents, work continued, so they faced a significant dilemma, according to the U.S Census bureau. Parents either have had to cut back on work hours or usher in a new generation of latchkey kids.

In states that lead the way in school closures, women were 68% more likely to cut back on or stop working during the school closures in 2020. 1 in 5 working adults stated that they stopped working during the pandemic due to a lack of or a significant change in childcare. Of those not working, women ages 25-44 were almost three times as likely as men not to be working due to childcare demands. When we think of the disproportionate effect on Black and Brown women, Essence magazine noted in December of 2020 that Black mothers are twice as likely to be responsible for CONTINUE READING: Childcare is critical infrastructure and for families of color, it’s even MORE critical | Eclectablog

Texas Legislature Passes Sweeping Restrictions on Teaching About Race | Diane Ravitch's blog

Texas Legislature Passes Sweeping Restrictions on Teaching About Race

In the GOP’s race to the bottom on teaching about racism, Texas takes the lead. The legislature passed a bill limiting what teachers can teach in history and social studies about race. Rightwing Governor Greg Abbott will sign it.

Here’s a description of the legislation from the Texas Tribune, written before it was passed by the Senate:

The Senate-approved version revives specific essential curriculum standards that students are required to understand, including the Declaration of Independence and the Federalist Papers. But it stripped more than two dozen requirements to study the writings or stories of multiple women and people of color that were also previously approved by the House, despite attempts by Democratic senators to reinstate some of those materials in the bill.

The Senate did vote to include the Federal Civil Rights CONTINUE READING: Texas Legislature Passes Sweeping Restrictions on Teaching About Race | Diane Ravitch's blog

Teacher Tom: Doing Deep Democracy

Doing Deep Democracy

I was hanging out on one of our swings chewing the fat with some of the kids. I can't remember what we were talking about, but I'd just said, "I guess I forgot," when Roko earnestly replied, "You know, Teacher Tom, "When you get older you forget more stuff."

The following day, I was a sitting in a circle of children heatlessly arguing about Star Wars. Roko was there and when one of the other kids insisted I was wrong about some detail, I answered, "Well, I saw the first movie a long time ago, when I was a teenager. Roko told me that when you get older you forget more stuff so maybe I just forgot."

Roko nodded, "It's true."

Cecelia, who has just finished her first year of kindergarten, didn't agree, "No, the way it works is you go to another school and another school and every time you go to another CONTINUE READING: Teacher Tom: Doing Deep Democracy

There’s No Erasing the Chalkboard (Kim Kankiewicz) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

There’s No Erasing the Chalkboard (Kim Kankiewicz)

There are critics who maintain that teaching has hardly changed over the past century. Such critics know little of the history of schooling, particularly how teachers have taught. Teaching requires tools just as learning does. As long as there have been age-graded schools with one teacher and and a group of students distributed through a building, teachers and students needs tools, i.e., technologies, to instruct and learn. Enter the slate blackboard in the early 19th century. Classroom technologies from the slate blackboard to present-day student-held computer devices have altered incrementally, not fundamentally, how teachers teach. This guest post documents the changes that have occurred in a historic and basic classroom tool, one that long ago went by the name: blackboard. And do not forget chalk and erasers accompanying this ubiquitous technology.

Kim Kankiewicz is a Seattle-based writer who has published articles in Pacific Standard, Salon, The Washington Post, and McSweeney’s. This piece appeared in The Atlantic, October 13, 2016.

In 2015, the construction crew renovating an Oklahoma high school uncovered an unusual time capsule. Beneath newer wall coverings, the workers discovered slate blackboards marked with schoolwork and colorful chalk drawings from 1917. Multiplication problems appeared beside a treble staff denoting an A-major CONTINUE READING: There’s No Erasing the Chalkboard (Kim Kankiewicz) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORT TODAY - New research finds test scores, educational aspirations drop if children overuse non-educational technology

Education Research Report

EDUCATION RESEARCH REPORT TODAY

Education Research Report: New research finds test scores, educational aspirations drop if children overuse non-educational technology - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2021/05/new-research-finds-test-scores.html

Research News

Middle-school aged children who use the internet, social media or video games recreationally for more than an hour each day during the school week have significantly lower grades and test scores, according to a study from the Center for Gambling Studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.

The findings appear in the journal Computers in Human Behavior.

Researchers say the findings give parents and children a moderate threshold for using entertainment-related technology -- no more than one hour daily on school days and four hours a day on weekends.

"Interactive technology is widely used to promote children's educational access and achievement," said lead author Vivien (Wen Li) Anthony, an assistant professor at the School of Social Work and research associate at the Rutgers Center for Gambling Studies. "During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has been essential to facilitating remote learning. At the same time, there is a growing concern that excessive technology CONTINUE READING: http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2021/05/new-research-finds-test-scores.html

Education Research Report: How school board meetings could attract more diverse audiences and boost public trust - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2021/05/how-school-board-meetings-could-attract.html

Education Research Report: Dual Enrollment Access and Participation by Locale and Income Level - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2021/05/dual-enrollment-access-and.html

The student debt dilemma http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-student-debt-dilemma.html

CURMUDGUCATION: Should Schools Offer Virtual School Options In The Fall?

Should Schools Offer Virtual School Options In The Fall?

I'll admit that this blooming controversy snuck up on me. In Pennsylvania, school districts have offered virtual options for years in the Time Before Covid. It would never have occurred to me that a district shouldn't. But apparently we're going to have fussing about that. kickstarted today by the NYC mayoral announcement that public schools will be all in person this fall.

That's a dumb idea.

I understand where some of it comes from, given the insistence that we must get students back in school Right The Hell Now. Political leaders trying to court a certain constituency are going to go this route, plus it will also be a way to signal that you aren't going to be pushed around by the teachers unions for all those folks buying the bullshit narrative about how the evil teachers are solely responsible for the closing of school buildings.

It's still a bad idea.

Mostly it's a bad idea to demand only-in-person districts because the alternative sucks. And it's not going away. There are many, many states already offering "free" online "public" [sic] school, and that's before we even get to cyber-schools that hide behind the mask of homeschooling.

Cyberschooling isn't going away any time soon for three reasons. First, it does actually work for a small percentage of students with very specific special needs. Second, particularly in states with PA with dumb rules governing cyber-tuition, it is a very attractive way to make a lot of money. Third, the charter worlds not only finances a good assortment of astroturf groups, but it also funds plenty of regular lobbyists, too. Legislatures could shut cyber charters down, but it's a lucrative business CONTINUE READING: CURMUDGUCATION: Should Schools Offer Virtual School Options In The Fall?

Education Matters: DeSantis goes after tech and teachers

DeSantis goes after tech and teachers

Ron DeSantis went after big tech today, signing a bill that will fine them if they deplatform politicians who violate their standards and conditions, i.e., lie and insight violence. Juxtapose this next to what he said the other day when he said he would go after teachers who dared to tell the truth about the systemic racism that has pervaded our history. Welcome to Florida, where only what the ruling party says matters, whether it is true or not.

At his press conference, he said...

Khomeini Died in 1989, long before Twitter and Facebook even existed, and the reason Trump was Deplatformed was because of his constant lies and him instigating violence. More specifically, he was kicked off Twitter and Facebook, private businesses, because he violates their terms and conditions.

As bad as this is, it's made worse because DeSantis and his little boot have said they plan to stifle teachers' free speech.

From Flagler Live:

A proposed rule that will be weighed by the State Board of Education aims to control the way history is taugh CONTINUE READING: Education Matters: DeSantis goes after tech and teachers

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