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A teacher’s deepest concerns going into 2021: students who disappeared, covid-19 myopia and six more - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/12/31/teachers-deepest-fears-about-2021-students-who-disappeared-covid-19-myopia-six-more/

Choosing Democracy: Governor Newsom California COVID-19 Update: Schools- December 30, 2020 - http://choosingdemocracy.blogspot.com/2020/12/governor-newsom-california-covid-19.html

glen brown: 2020 - https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2020/12/2020.html

Here’s What Biden Can Do for Foster and Adoptive Youth https://www.laprogressive.com/adoptive-youth/

Amid COVID-19, will federal aid be enough for LAUSD? - Los Angeles Times - https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-31/will-big-covid-payout-for-lausd-be-enough?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+lanowblog+%28L.A.+Now%29 by @howardblume on @latimes

Ode to a teacher felled by COVID-19 and the boy she left behind http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/8XrzKQiTqoE/ode-to-teacher-felled-by-covid-boy-left-behind-column-one

Cancel Abraham Lincoln? San Francisco grapples with the president's legacy http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/FbT4cVjHkRs/san-francisco-grapples-with-abraham-lincoln-legacy

Un insulto racial, un video viral y un ajuste de cuentas https://www.nytimes.com/es/2020/12/31/espanol/un-insulto-racial-un-video-viral-y-un-ajuste-de-cuentas.html

COVID 2021 – Tennessee Education Report - http://tnedreport.com/?p=5068 via @TNEdReport

Newsom pushes February school reopening plan in California https://politi.co/2KRx6n7

California’s Newsom proposes spending $2 billion to help reopen elementary schools - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/12/30/california-gov-newsom-proposes-spending-2-billion-help-reopen-elementary-schools/

Colleges and students gear up for spring semester https://www.njspotlight.com/video/colleges-and-students-gear-up-for-spring-semester/ via @NJSpotlightNews

Op-Ed: NJ schools need a plan to rescue students from COVID-19 chasm https://www.njspotlight.com/2020/12/covid-19-chasm-unlearning-learning-loss-historically-oppressed-students/ via @NJSpotlightNews

Thursday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=114452 on @Larryferlazzo

Education Matters: Good luck getting DCPS to care - https://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2020/12/good-luck-getting-dcps-to-care.html

Calls growing for Biden to do what DeVos did: Let states skip annual standardized tests this spring - The Washington Post

by Mike Simpson / 11min

Calls are growing for Biden to do what DeVos did: Let states skip annual standardized tests this spring There are growing calls from across the political spectrum for the federal government to allow states to skip giving students federally mandated standardized tests in spring 2021 — but the man that President-elect Joe Biden tapped to be education secretary has indicated support for giving them

Vouchers and Market-Driven Schools in Sweden (Sara Hjelm) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

by Mike Simpson / 11min

Vouchers and Market-Driven Schools in Sweden (Sara Hjelm) Sara Hjelm is a reader of this blog. She wrote to me about the state of Swedish schools a few weeks ago and her deeply-felt concerns about the reforms now occurring in her country. As a retired teacher she sees the blending of school choice and vouchers as a reform strategy that, in her opinion, harms the nation’s schools. Usually, I do n

Newsom offers $2 billion plan to bring back in-person instruction in elementary grades | EdSource

by Mike Simpson / 11min

Newsom offers $2 billion plan to bring back in-person instruction in elementary grades G ov. Gavin Newsom presented a $2 billion proposal for financial incentives Wednesday to prod school districts to bring back elementary school students for in-person instruction, starting in mid-February. School districts would receive extra funding — from $450 to about $700 per student — if they agreed to a t

Teacher Tom: An Education That Emerges From Those Things That Most Affect Us

by Mike Simpson / 11min

An Education That Emerges From Those Things That Most Affect Us In 1675, French rationalist philosopher Nicholas Malebranche wrote, "The mind does not pay equal attention to everything it perceives. For it applies itself infinitely more to those things that affect it, that modify it, and that penetrate it, than to those that are present to it but do not affect it." I don't know if this insight w

Celebrating Kwanzaa: Day Six Gives Us Kuumba, Creativity

by Mike Simpson / 11min

Creativity and Craftsmanship: Celebrating Kuumba, the Sixth Night of Kwanzaa Black-owned businesses breathe creativity. The sixth day of Kwanzaa, Kuumba, represents creativity and is a time for celebrating the radical Blackness that comes from multiple countries and cultures across different platforms. The following Black-owned businesses show their creative instincts in their hand-made and hand

Website Created by Gates Foundation Leaves Open Personal Data of Hundreds of Thousands of Students | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 11min

Website Created by Gates Foundation Leaves Open Personal Data of Hundreds of Thousands of Students The Financial Times reported a major data breach of personally identifiable student data on a website funded by the Gates Foundation. Bill Gates, as we know, is a data aficionado. Several years ago, he created an ill-fated project called InBloom with the intent of gathering the personal data of mil

Choosing Democracy: Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum

by Mike Simpson / 11min

Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Ethnic Studies Curriculum SBE At its November 18–19, 2020, meeting, the Instructional Quality Commission (IQC) recommended the revised draft Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum to the State Board of Education (SBE) following a 45-day public comment period. The IQC incorporated edits, including those recommended by the California Department of Education (CDE), that str

Rick Hess Interviews Betsy DeVos As She Heads for the Exit | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 11min

Rick Hess Interviews Betsy DeVos As She Heads for the Exit Rick Hess conducts an “exit interview” with Betsy DeVos, which was published at Education Week. Rick is a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, which is funded in part by DeVos. DeVos came to Washington to destroy public education, and she failed. She bitterly dismisses the “entrenched interests” and bureaucrats who f

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

by Mike Simpson / 11min

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/2020/12/this-week

St. Louis Public Education Theft Accelerates | tultican

by Mike Simpson / 2h

St. Louis Public Education Theft Accelerates By Thomas Ultican 12/30/2020 A proposal to close 11 more public schools in St. Louis came before the school board on December 15. Based on Superintendent Kelvin Adams’ recommendation the final decision was postponed until January. It is not clear why Adams pulled back his own recommendation, but it is clear that public education in St. Louis is being

THE MOST READ DAD GONE WILD PIECE FROM 2020 – Dad Gone Wild

by Mike Simpson / 2h

THE MOST READ DAD GONE WILD PIECE FROM 2020 As we approach the end of a tumultuous year, things are starting to kick forth in the education world. Yesterday, Governor Lee announce a special session of the General Assembly to focus on education issues. The five areas to be considered are teacher salaries, accountability, BEP, learning loss, and literacy. I’ll dive deeper into the special session,

New York State is currently a rising COVID outlier in the United States | JD2718

by Mike Simpson / 2h

New York State is currently a rising COVID outlier in the United States COVID-19 case rates rose across the country this fall. And, in most cases, those rates peaked. In some states the peak was in mid-November. In others it was late November In others it was early December. In others it was mid-December. But in New York State the case rate continues to rise. Right before Thanksgiving Andrew Cuo

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THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES #REDFORED #tbats #COVIDVACCINE #BIDEN #edsecMiguelCardona

by Mike Simpson / 22h

Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Are schools safe? A growing body of evidence suggests that, with the right measures, they contribute little to virus spread. 

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