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Revisiting the Research Paper Problem for College Students as Writers - About 15 years ago, my university overhauled the curriculum and academic calendar, including dropping the traditional English 101/102 approach to compositi...3 hours ago
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Omaha: High School Students Walk Out to Protest Hate Laws - Yesterday, hundreds of Omaha high school students walked out to protest the anti-trans legislation moving through the Nebraska legislature. The youth are o...4 hours ago
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TN's Law to Ban Drag Shows Gets Dragged by Trump Judge - To show you how fully authoritarian the Tennessee Taliban (once known as the TN General Assembly) has become, the outrageous bill that Bill Lee couldn't ...4 hours ago
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First all Vegan In-and-Out Burger - I am thrilled to announce that I have decided to open the nation’s first all-vegan in-and-out burger joint right here in Kalamazoo! This has been a dream o...6 hours ago
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The defeat of a school voucher program reveals the truth within the ‘school choice’ debate - The momentum for education savings accounts is increasing across the country, and public education advocates say they will endanger neighborhood schools....8 hours ago
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Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL - Eight years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general tha...12 hours ago
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Collective Bargaining: How Might the UFT and the City Reach a Contract Settlement? - The NYC teacher contract ended on September 30th and the union and Department of Education/City have been “engaging” for months, an increasingly contentiou...17 hours ago
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Math Wars Continue - From the Chronicle of Higher Education (you can get a free account to read), *The Divider; Jo Boaler of Stanford is leading the math-instruction revolut...20 hours ago
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Betsy DeVos, Paul Vallas and Awake Illinois. Defunding public schools. - Betsy funded a group that did a FOIA on me as a teacher and union president. Now she's funding Vallas' run for Chicago mayor.1 day ago
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Ain’t No Money in the Middle - “All I want in life is clarity, and transparency, so I know who is doing what, and to whom, at all times. My only real enemies in life are liars, and they’...1 day ago
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Shanker Blog: Infrastructure Matters - Shanker Blog: Infrastructure Matters Towards the end of the summer of 2022, citing a recently-published article, Chester Finn wondered whether we have see...1 day ago
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Bill Hangley, Jr.: Abbott's Lesson for Charters: Look In The Mirror...Please (Guest Post) - *Bill Hangley, Jr., is a free lance writer who worked the education beat in Philadelphia, and as such he has some thoughts about the charter scene in Phill...1 day ago
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Only in America - Covenant School Thurston High School Columbine High School Heritage High School Deming Middle School Fort Gibson Middle School Buell Elementary Scho...1 day ago
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Waiting For Life To Happen - In John Lennon's song "Beautiful Boy," he sings the line, "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans." He may have come up with it all o...1 day ago
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Rip Van Winkle and U.S. Schooling. - Washington Irving’s short story about the 18th century ne’er-do-well Dutch-American farmer in the Catskill Mountains of New York who drank whiskey and then...1 day ago
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SPI Addresses Student Financial Literacy Benefits - State Superintendent Tony Thurmond visits personal finance class and addresses benefits of financial literacy for students.1 day ago
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Coming up tomorrow on Hitting Left - Brother Fred and i talk book/art banning and are joined by Julian Assange's father and brother John and Gabriel Shipton.2 days ago
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Betsy DeVos loves Paul Vallas! - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday March 29, 2023 Contact: Cassie Creswell, Illinois Families for Public Schools, 716-536-9313 BETSY DEVOS’ SUPER PAC SPENDING...2 days ago
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DeSantis Signs Enormous Universal School Voucher Program into Florida Law - On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law an outrageously expensive universal school voucher law that he had pushed through the Florida legi...2 days ago
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Calling Out Some “Ban Books, Protect Guns” Hypocrisy - So much manufactured to-do over protecting children from books instead of magazines…. The book-blaming, gun-excusing hypocrisy is just too easy to find amo...2 days ago
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Celebrate the Life of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta - Celebrating Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta 1972- Sacramento March 31 is Cesar Chavez’s birthday and Cesar Chavez Day – a state holiday in Californ...2 days ago
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School-based wellbeing programs benefits from multiple voices - Health and wellbeing education can be an important addition to a school curriculum. But for these programs to be effective, they must be delivered in ...2 days ago
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The Value(s) of Public Schools - “The school system prepares your child for success. Honestly, if your child listens, it’s amazing. The teachers–it’s unreal.” That wise comment came from...3 days ago
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Parents, educators, UFT launch court action to block co-location of two Success Academy charters with Queens and Brooklyn public schools - See below press release about a new lawsuit filed by parents, teachers and the UFT against the DOE to prevent two charter co-locations in Queens and Broo...3 days ago
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Michael Mulgrew Is the Fearmonger-in-Chief - At left, you can see Unity's new campaign against those of us standing against further degradation of our health care. Their rationale for calling us fea...3 days ago
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California: What’s Wrong with Charter Schools? - Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog: In 2010, I traveled to California to –?Guest post created by a longtime Northern California parent volunteer edu...4 days ago
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Some Anniversaries - COVID shuts down NYC schools (with help from parents and teachers, resistance from de Blasio and Cuomo, and a late, partial assist from UFT leadership) Mar...4 days ago
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EDUCATION REFORM: THE TOWER OF BABEL - * EDUCATION REFORM: THE TOWER OF BABEL* The story of the Tower of Babel, as recounted in the Book of Genesis, is a tale about a group of people who atte...4 days ago
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Standardized Tests Hurt Asian-American Students, Too, Though Many Get High Scores - The standardized testing industry can no longer hide behind the myth of the Asian-American model minority to justify their shady business practices.5 days ago
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The Science of Reading and The Rejection of Picture Books - The Science of Reading rejects the importance of picture books to children learning to read. In 2021, I wrote this, and many parents assumed that schools s...6 days ago
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Rep. Jennifer Canady's false abortion testimony violated her oath to Lakeland Christian School - If lying publicly meant as much to the newly-public Lakeland Christian as hating gay fellow citizens, LCS leaders would punish Canady like they did Lakelan...6 days ago
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David and the Classical Education - By now, everyone who reads or follows the internet has learned of the Tallahassee principal who was dismissed from her position because the teacher of a 6t...6 days ago
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Where are the folks who brought us the war in Iraq? - DONATE THE ARCHITECTS OF THE IRAQ WAR: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? They’re all doing great, thanks for asking. Jon Schwarz March 15 2023, 4:52 p.m. U.S. Secretary ...6 days ago
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Thoughts on Mulgrew Whilst at Casino in Schenectady - I am at the Rivers Casino in Schenectady with some friends this weekend. Just finished watching FAU (I won some money!) go to the final four and went to ...6 days ago
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The Genius of Stop-Sign Organizing - I am so excited about what it means to organize right now. Not only are there unprecedented federal resources on the table to spark transformational change...1 week ago
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The Oligarchs’ Education Propaganda Distributor - By Thomas Ultican 3/23/2023 In 2015, the Washington Post reported on the founding of The 74 Million. Former CNN news anchor Campbell Brown along with Micha...1 week ago
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PTO Leaders from Wards 7 and 8 on March 22 - PTO leaders from ward 7 & 8 DCPS schools discuss experiences as PTO leaders, what their schools are like, what the budget process for their schools has bee...1 week ago
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Our critique of the DOE preliminary budget & the capital plan & what should be done instead - March 17, 2023 Hearings were held on Wed. before the Education committee of the City Council on the DOE preliminary budget and the Feb. amendment to the ca...2 weeks ago
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Louder Than A Riot | Megan's Rule: Being Exceptional Doesn't Make You the Exception - 'It felt like the December 2022 trial of *Tory Lanez *sparked a divide in hip-hop, but it just stoked the flames of a 50-year-long battle for Black women...2 weeks ago
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#LegalizeBlackHistory: Past Lessons to Resist Florida’s Ban on AP African American Studies—and the College Board’s Capitulation - Past struggles in Florida against slavery, Jim Crow, the Red Scare, and the Lavender Scare are replete with lessons to build a justice society today. We ca...3 weeks ago
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DAILY KOS,who I am, why I will remain - I have been here long time. According to my profile, I joined on Dec.19, 2003 after first encountering the site while volunteering for Howard Dean in NH ...3 weeks ago
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Teachers, Superintendent Greene does not have your back. - One of the most laughable things Greene said when defending the district's incompetent handling of books was they were doing it to protect teachers. Gre...5 weeks ago
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Why Do Teachers Have Favorites? - Do educators ever self-reflect on how they feel about their students in order to better understand how they assess each of their students? What are the con...5 weeks ago
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Louisiana legislates student protections from digital device health risks: 4th state to create health and safety guidelines for schools - by Cindy Eckard www.screensandkids.us @screensandkids on Twitter Children using digital devices are at risk for several impacts to their health, especially...1 month ago
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Still l Rise by Maya Angelou – Black History is Everyday - You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upse...1 month ago
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1825 - As early as 1744, Ben Franklin had worried that wood as a fuel for heating and cooking was becoming scarce in the settled regions of the Thirteen Colo...1 month ago
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What ever happend to John Deasy, the Man From Gates? - * Here's an update on Deasy from 2020* By Thomas Ultican 7/29/2020 April 21, the Stockton Unified School District (SUSD) board accepted John Deasy’s let...1 month ago
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NewsELA Answers Key 2023 [Updated] - Welcome to our NewsELA Answers key! In this post, we will be providing quiz keys for a variety of units ... Read more2 months ago
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Trainwreck For America - Between 1990 and 2013, Teach For America grew in size and influence from a tiny inconsequential alternative placement provider to a $300 million a year pol...2 months ago
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Two years later - It’s been two years since Joe Biden was inaugurated as our 46th President. His presidency has been an astounding success in many ways. First and foremost, ...2 months ago
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Introduction to Improbable Probabilities: The Unlikely Journey of Yong Zhao - Improbable Probabilities: The Unlikely Journey of Yong Zhao G. Williamson McDiarmid and Yong Zhao Published by Solution Tree, 2023 Williamson McDiarmid is...2 months ago
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What The American Teacher Act Shows Us About Education Now - In the last year, I’ve visited four different classrooms, three of them within New York City. During my visits, I noticed similar trends: well-organized ...2 months ago
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Claiming Space for History Teaching in a Whitewashing World - By Paul Horton. History teaching in the United States is at a crossroads. In many states whitewashing and censorship have replaced Black history and the hi...2 months ago
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20 Best Sonography Programs In Bronx, NY (2022 Updated) - 20 Best Sonography Programs In Bronx, NY 1. Springfield Technical Community College Springfield Technical Community College is a Public Hispanic-serving ...4 months ago
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Tell Me Again What The Democratic Party Actually Is? - Well mostly, it’s a collection of folks striving to see that the Party winds up looking like what they envision…4 months ago
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Testimony to the CPS Truancy Task Force - I prepared testimony for one of two public hearings held by the Chicago Public Schools Truancy Task Force, a body mandated by state legislation. The meetin...4 months ago
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Skin Deep - She spends so much time on her outward appearance. There is never a hair out of place. Her makeup is perfect and her clothes are stylish and match to ...6 months ago
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Tennis Memories from a Time When Racism and Anti-Semitism Still Prevailed - I learned tennis at a public park in Brooklyn- Lincoln Terrace- where the teaching pro was a mailman named Phil Rubell. Almost all the kids who took lesson...6 months ago
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There Is A Teacher Shortage.Not. - THERE IS A TEACHER SHORTAGE. And just to be sure you understand, it’s not that teachers don’t want to teach. It’s not that there aren’t enough teachers cer...7 months ago
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2022 Medley #3 – A teacher shortage, or not? - A teacher shortage, or not? NOT A TEACHER SHORTAGE I’ve often posted teacher shortage rants on this blog, and I’ll continue to do so, but the phrase needs ...7 months ago
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Reason #1 to pick Dr. Grace over Mr. Walters: The future we’ve already seen - In 2014, Oklahoma voters corrected the mistake we made in 2010. In 2022, let’s not make the mistake in the first place. Elect Dr. April Grace instead. She ...7 months ago
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THERE IS A TEACHER SHORTAGE. NOT! - There is a teacher shortage.And just to be sure you understand, it's not that teachers don't want to teach.It's not that there aren't enough teachers certi...7 months ago
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Addendum to Mission Hill Statement - Follow up blog, Dear friends and colleagues, My friend and long-time colleague, Bonnie Brownstein, had some interesting thoughts about my Blog in regards t...8 months ago
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Abortion: Only For Those Who Need It! - NOTE: This post contains my opinions on Catholicism based on my experiences as a child in the 1960's and 70's. Take what you like and leave the rest. I m...10 months ago
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Want to know the condition of a Philly school building? New map to help. - [image: Two students walk by a Philadelphia school building.] Aging infrastructure has been an issue for Philadelphia schools for years. A new interactive...11 months ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! The post Hello world! first appeared on Just another WordPress site.11 months ago
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What can we learn by modeling existing variations in school spending and outcomes? (Reprise) - There are those in the ed reform world who would tell us that existing public schools and districts are simply inefficient in their use of existing funding...11 months ago
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STREET LIFE - My mom told me, “You should treat all people equally, but don’t bring a “colored” into the house.” I believed … Continue reading →11 months ago
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Schools Matter: Reflecting on Green Dot’s Disastrous Locke Takeover - *“Green Dot came and made it into more of a jail.” — Chris* My history of opposing the Green Dot Charter School Corporation back when I was an activist i...1 year ago
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Gootloader infection cleaned up - Dear blog owner and visitors, This blog had been infected to serve up Gootloader malware to Google search victims, via a common tactic known as SEO (Search...1 year ago
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Book Banning Turns to Dick and Jane - Breaking News: Dateline February 4, 2022 - Parents in Dimwitty, Alabama have asked the Dimwitty Board of Education to ban the children's primer *Fun with...1 year ago
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On the Edge of Silence - “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamen...1 year ago
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The Howlers of History and How We Must Reclaim the Narrative - “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all judgments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignor...1 year ago
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Have You Heard Has a New Website - TweetHave You Heard has a new website. Visit us at www.haveyouheardpodcast.com to find our latest episodes and our entire archive. And be sure to check out...1 year ago
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Follow me at Substack - I've moved. Follow me at Substack I'm now posting regularly at Substack. You can subscribe for free to my new Edu/Pol blog at michaelklonsky.substack.com ...1 year ago
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On Remote Teaching and Learning In an Ongoing Pandemic - Some recent stories I've been thinking about (all emphases mine). Tennessee: Gov. Bill Lee’s administration is getting pushback in Memphis on new Tenness...1 year ago
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Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights - The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win...1 year ago
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Milwaukee Bradley Foundation at Center of Attacks on U.S. Voting Rights - The Big Money Behind the Big Lie Donald Trump’s attacks on democracy are being promoted by rich and powerful conservative groups that are determined to win...1 year ago
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Aspiring Teachers Get New Help Paying For College - [image: colorful classroom pattern] *; Credit: shuoshu/Getty Images* Cory Turner | NPR New rules kick in today that will help aspiring teachers pay for c...1 year ago
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Major victory over a corporate charter school chain and their trade association - Original post at Robert’s page on Medium. On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, I got my second big win in court against a charter school corporation. It was also a ...2 years ago
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Tips Akses Situs Judi Qq Tanpa Perlu Takut Nawala - Kegiatan berjudi slot melalui situs judi qq online, sekarang sudah dilakukan oleh banyak penjudi Indonesia. Tentu, Kamu yang sedang membaca artikel ini a...2 years ago
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CEJ’s Virtual Mayoral Candidate Forum; Racial Justice in Public Schools - On Thursday, February 18th, over 1,000 students, parents, educators, community members, and activists alike, joined CEJ to hear the mayoral candidates’ vis...2 years ago
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Hoping for a Stronger Focus on Public Education in 2021 and Beyond - Dr. Sandra Stotsky: The road to effective education is paved with local financial control and parent choice. No federal funding or programs. The post Ho...2 years ago
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GA run-offs need your help! - Extremely important. Volunteer if you can. Thank you if you are already doing so. Out of state opportunities here: Ralph … Continue reading →2 years ago
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Pandemic Teaching – What’s up? - Responding to the call from Pocketful of Primary to answer questions about how teaching during the pandemic is going.2 years ago
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The Threat of Integration - I have lived in the same house in the Miracle Mile section of Los Angeles for over 30 years, where up until now I have had little or no interaction with th...2 years ago
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New Teacher Evaluation Report Released by the Network for Public Education - A new report on current teacher evaluation systems throughout the US was just released by the Network for Public Education. The report is titled, “Teachers...2 years ago
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www.job-applications.com - https://www.job-applications.com/bed-bath-and-beyond-job-application/2 years ago
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Teacher Creates National Database Tracking COVID-19 Outbreaks in Schools - Kansas educator Alisha Morris's online coronavirus news-tracker goes viral, now hosted on a new NEA website.2 years ago
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School Year 2020-21: We Are Asking the Wrong Questions - It is perfectly understandable that many in our country want public school buildings to be open for in person instruction this year. Among the many hardshi...2 years ago
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Correction for July 10th Post on School District Audit - On July 10, 2020 we published a post “School District Caught Manipulating Attendance Records to Get More Money” which incorrectly cited Valley Park School ...2 years ago
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We fight for a democracy worthy of us all! - The nation stands at a crossroads, said NEA President Lily Eskelsen GarcÃa in her final keynote address to the 2020 NEA Representative Assembly and it’s up...2 years ago
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A Citizens’ Rebellion 2020 - The United States began to form after the rebellion against the King of England when the settlers in the colonies along the eastern coast reacted to the in...2 years ago
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Giving Private Schools Federal Emergency Funds Slated for Low-income Students Will Shortchange At-risk Kids - Low-income Seattle students began to pick up bagged lunches in March after their school closed. Karen Ducey/Getty Images Derek W. Black, University of Sout...2 years ago
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A Fundamental Redesign of Our Schools - I climbed the hill leading up to one of my favorite coffee shops in Seattle this morning to enjoy a coffee while taking in a phenomenal view of the city o...2 years ago
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The Passing Of Chaz 1951-2020 Age 69 - I am the son of Chaz and like to inform you that he passed away this afternoon from the COVID virus. My father passed in peace beside his loved ones. We ar...2 years ago
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Thoughts on schooling in the era of COVID-19 - Well, a whole lot has changed since I returned to blogging a month and half ago. In case you didn't notice, and I'm sure everyone reading this did, there's...3 years ago
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What are You Going to Do when Disaster Capitalism Knocks on the Public-School Door? - “Schools will be closed until at least April 20, after the upcoming spring break, but could stay closed for significantly longer, Mr. de Blasio said.” Whe...3 years ago
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Let The Next Round Of Anti-Semitic Ads Begin - All four pro-public education candidates came in first in their LAUSD school board elections, but two will face run-offs in November.3 years ago
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NAEP scores and "the science of reading" - *Sent to US News. They just informed me that they no longer publish letters to the editor. * *Re: “National reading emergency” November 12* *[https://www....3 years ago
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2019 NAEP Scores: Achievement Gap or …? - Here you go: A ‘Disturbing’ Assessment: Sagging Reading Scores, Particularly for Eighth-Graders, Headline 2019’s Disappointing NAEP Results NAEP 2019: Re...3 years ago
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Glasgow High School In Middle Of Scandal With Fake IEP Meetings & Loss Of Funding - The quickest way to lose special education funding is to lie about holding IEP meetings. Such is the case with Glasgow High School in the Christina School...3 years ago
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Cara Menang Bermain Judi Bola Online - Bermain judi bola online tentu saja memiliki kesenangannya tersendiri baik itu mendapatkan keuntungan maupun ketika menantikan hasil skor pada sebuah perta...3 years ago
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What Cory Booker isn’t telling us about the Newark water crisis. - BY GUY STERLING Guy Sterling, a longtime resident of Newark and a member of the Newark Water Group, spent almost 30 years as reporter with The Star-Ledger ...3 years ago
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A Storm is Coming! (…again) - A new Commissioner will have as much impact on our state ed system as a new meteorologist will have on … Continue reading →3 years ago
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JerseyCAN Can't Hide From Opioids Crisis Billionaire Founder - [image: Image result for jerseycan] NJ Spotlight needs to stop giving space to billionaire-backed corporate reform groups like JerseyCAN. JerseyCAN does n...3 years ago
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Déjà vu: 2019 ELA Assessment: Dear Board of Regents - Dear Board of Regents, I have copied below an email I sent to you almost a year ago, after the 2018 ELA assessment's computer-based testing failures and mo...3 years ago
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This Week in Education Organizing - February 15, 2019 - Coalition for Education Justice to Release Report on CRE Eighty-five percent of public school students in New York City are Black, Latinx, or Asian and y...4 years ago
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Black Lives Matter at Schools National week of Action: Feb 4 - Feb 8 - Join the National Week of Actions for Black Lives Matter at Schools. Starting Monday, February 4th educators in cities across the country will draw closer...4 years ago
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Judi Togel - Permainan Judi Togel Online Mudah Dijalankan Di Indonesia Permainan judi online Indonesia terpercaya kini memang menjadi salah satu tempat bermain game yan...4 years ago
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13 Things I Learned While Blogging for Education Week - This is the 500th blog I've written as the Teacher in a Strange Land, for Education Week Teacher. As it turns out, it's also my final blog for EdWeek. Here...4 years ago
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Blockchain: Life on the Ledger - Originally posted on Wrench in the Gears: I created this video as a follow up to the one I prepared last year on Social Impact Bonds. It is time to examine...4 years ago
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New York Times piece on '68 Democratic Convention Protest - ‘The Whole World Is Watching’: The 1968 Democratic Convention, 50 Years Later On Aug. 28, 1968, violent clashes in Chicago between demonstrators and the ...4 years ago
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My Letter to the NYS Board of Regents and Commissioner Elia Regarding ESSA Opt Out Provisions - commissioner@nysed.gov Regent.cashin@nysed.gov ESSARegComment@nysed.gov Regent.Rosa@nysed.gov Regent.Reyes@nysed.gov Regent.Chin@nysed.gov Regent.Young@n...4 years ago
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Corruption on Top of Corruption: How Rahm’s Response to Sexual Abuse of Students Reveals His Core Function - Rahm Emanuel’s response to the Chicago Tribune investigation that found CPS failed to protect hundreds of students from sexual abuse is cowardly. It is co...4 years ago
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New Local Businesses in Sacramento - Starting a new local business in Sacramento is a monumental task, but can be accomplished with footwork, perseverance and knowledge. One must learn the loc...4 years ago
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3rd Grade Reading: Who is Failing? - Education Trust Midwest has just released its study on third grade reading and, predictably, the results aren’t great. This study uniquely compares Michiga...5 years ago
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Why Poetry? Why Now? – a poem from Linda Christensen and an invitation - My dear friend Dr. James Avington Miller Jr. sent me a phenomenal book on poetry called Rhythm and Resistance – Teaching Poetry for Social Justice. Here is...5 years ago
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Opting out of the Dinosaur (end of year test) - Today I sent in a second letter to refuse PARCC/CMAS for my son, Luke. The first email I sent at the beginning of the year was not sufficient as they requi...5 years ago
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Resurrection - I realized it's Lent, but this blog, bless Jesus Christ, can't wait. Ok, so with that said, I plan to discuss Class Action suits in existence, as well as w...5 years ago
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Chicago Collegiate Charter School Must STOP Expansion Plans - So I did a little digging into Chicago Collegiate Charter Schools, the tiny school looking to expand into the empty Kohn Elementary School building. A scho...5 years ago
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IDEA Is Still The Law Of The Land - Unless you've been living under a rock, you know the US Department of Education (USDOE) rescinded 72 Dear Colleague and other letters of explanation to s...5 years ago
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Education Is a Civic Question - In their final post to end Bridging Differences' decade-long run, Deborah Meier and Harry Boyte urge readers to put the energy, talents, wisdom, and hard w...5 years ago
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Education reform should come from within by Wendy Lecker - In her latest Stamford Advocate commentary piece, education advocate Wendy Lecker observes, Education reform should come from within. Wendy Lecker write...5 years ago
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Site News: New Home for Education News & Commentary - Quick! Get over there! The daily education news roundup and education commentaries that you're probably looking for are now being published over at The Gra...5 years ago
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An Open Letter to NC Lawmakers - An Open Letter to NC State Lawmakers and NC State Superintendent Mark Johnson: I am a NC native, voter, and public school teacher. I am addressing you all ...5 years ago
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CANCER IS BACK AND THIS TIME IT HURTS RIGHT OFF THE BAT! - APRIL IS STILL POETRY MONTH AND LIBRARY MONTH. MANY WONDERFUL THINGS TO CELEBRATE. But in the middle of the month I received some bad news about my can...5 years ago
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The Secret to Fixing Schools (My Next Bestseller) - The Secret to Fixing Schools (My next bestseller) Prologue I just finished watching a fascinating documentary on Netflix entitled, “The Secret”. The film p...5 years ago
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Farewell, Sleep - Today is the official last day of my spring break. I've done a scientific survey: My natural bedtime is 2 AM, and my natural wake up time is 9:41 AM. Tom...5 years ago
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IBO REPORT: NYC Charter School Costs To Grow More Than Budgeted! - *New York City Charter School Costs To Grow More Than Budgeted!* Although the preliminary budget forecast of charter school enrollment is lower than project...6 years ago
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Education Bloggers Daily Highlights 3/2/2017 - Education Bloggers Daily Highlights 3/1/2017 Education Bloggers Daily Highlights Courtesy of Big Education Ape A special thank you to education blogger Mik...6 years ago
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Attitude Determines Altitude* (*conditions apply)… and the Importance of Humane District Themes - It has been a tumultuous few years in the South Brunswick community, specifically the South Brunswick School District. All you have to do is google the dis...6 years ago
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Capturing the Spark - It’s been a long time since InterACT was an active education blog, though I remain quite proud of what we did here. Those of us who wrote blog posts here h...6 years ago
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Prison Gerrymandering: Incarceration Weakens Vulnerable Voting Communities - One person equals one vote: seems simple enough. Unfortunately, that hasn’t worked out for many Americans throughout history, specifically women and peop...6 years ago
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Random Musings and Observations. . . . - I’ve been gone a while from the blogging scene. Some of my more regular readers no doubt noticed but did not hassle me about it. Thank you for that. Sinc...6 years ago
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WTU Peterson Slate: Not a 1 Woman Dictatorship - Candi Peterson & GeLynn Thompson Candidates for WTU Prez & GVP 2016By Candi Peterson, WTU Gen. Vice President *Statements or expressions of opinions herein...6 years ago
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WHY SCHOOL START TIMES PLAY A HUGE ROLE IN KIDS’ SUCCESS - Teens are severely sleep-deprived. This needs to change. Rebecca Klein Editor, HuffPost Education| https://t.co/zInVJoy29W evgenyatamanenko via Getty Image...6 years ago
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Feminism-in-Schools Featured at First International Girls’ Studies Association Conference - Leaders in the feminism-in-schools movement recently made history at the inaugural International Girls’ Studies Association (IGSA) conference when we were ...6 years ago
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MY NEW BLOG - My new blog will consist of fictitious headlines, meant to be a blend of humor and satire. I apologize ahead of time if any other satirical site has simila...6 years ago
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Thank you - Dear Readers, Thank you for visiting *The Perimeter Primate*. This blog is being retired for the time being. Although I no longer post here, I do still s...7 years ago
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GLSEN Massachusetts Educator Retreat - *GLSEN Massachusetts Educator Retreat* *SAVE-THE-DATEMarch 8-10, 2019 • Provincetown, MA* The GLSEN Massachusetts Educator Retreat in Provincetown is a s...7 years ago
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I am Retiring - I have some news: I am retiring from the PBS NewsHour and Learning Matters. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other conte...7 years ago
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Flaws at the Heart of Current Education Reforms - Originally posted on Creative by Nature: “Teaching is an art form rooted in the wise and careful use of educational research and assessment tools. When gove...8 years ago
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Joanne Barkan: One of my favorite writers on #EdReform… - I’ve been going through some of my Twitter “favorites” and retweeting them. I thought I would pass on to you some information about one of my favorite writ...8 years ago
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Pay Teachers Less to Improve School Efficiency - hmmm! - As I was reading through education news on several of the news sites I regularly visit, I came...8 years ago
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
What Does a “Safe Return” to School Look Like? Ask Teacher Unions. - In These Times
Online Charter Schools No Solution in a Pandemic - LA Progressive
Coronavirus and racism combined with online charters would create a plague of injustice that will never be wiped out.
NYC Public School Parents: Today's "Talk out of School" on PreK reopening and how to improve online learning
NANCY BAILEY: Betsy DeVos and the Separation of Church and State During Covid-19
All the Options for Schooling Are Bad—But We Have to Choose Safety - In These Times
Principals, I Am Not Your Magical Negro - Philly's 7th Ward
Mozert v. Hawkins County Public Schools (The Tale of the Troubling Textbook) - Part One | Blue Cereal Education
It's An Elephant, Dammit!
New CDC Guidance for Reopening Schools Creates Color-Coded Risk Scale | US News -
New CDC Guidance for Reopening Schools Creates Color-Coded Risk Scale | US News
New CDC Guidance for Reopening Schools Creates Color-Coded Risk Scale
One early analysis of the CDC guidance suggests nearly 90% of people in the U.S. live in counties that fall into the two highest of five risk categories for reopening schools.
THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE Control and Prevention issued new guidance Wednesday for schools seeking to open for in-person learning, using various community infection rates and school safety thresholds to create a five-tiered color-coded risk scale.
The guidance, which state education chiefs, school district superintendents, principals, teachers and others have been clamoring for since the spring, comes more than a month after millions of children, mostly across the South, returned to schools – some in districts with positive rates upward of 20% and without requirements for students and staff to wear masks.
According to at least one early analysis of the CDC guidance, nearly 90% of people in the U.S. live in counties that fall into the two highest risk categories for reopening schools. The release of the guidance, which recommends aggressive thresholds, reignited a wave of criticism over the lack of federal guidance and left many wondering how many schools would have decided not to reopen for in-person learning if officials had this guidance earlier
"There is no easy answer or single indicator," the CDC guidance states. "Many variables must be considered."
CDC recommends the use of three indicators, including two measures of community burden – the number of new cases per 100,000 persons within the last 14 days and the percentage of tests that are positive during the last 14 days – as well as one self-assessed measure of schools' ability to adhere to various mitigation strategies.
Those strategies could be things like the correct use of masks, social distancing, hand hygiene, cleaning and disinfection and contact tracing in collaboration with local health departments.
"These key mitigation strategies should be implemented to the largest extent possible," the CDC guidance states. "When mitigation strategies are consistently and correctly used, the risk of spread within the school environment and the surrounding community is decreased."
The guidance also emphasizes that local officials take additional factors into consideration, such as the extent to which mitigation strategies are adhered to in the broader community.
If a school districts falls into the "medium," "higher" or "highest" risk of transmission categories, it CONTINUE READING: New CDC Guidance for Reopening Schools Creates Color-Coded Risk Scale | US News
Private and Charter Schools Received Six Times as Much COVID Funding As Public Schools | Diane Ravitch's blog
Teacher Tom: What Are We Going to Do?
Teacher Tom: What Are We Going to Do?
What Are We Going to Do?
CURMUDGUCATION: Is Betsy DeVos Flip-Flopping?
But with the advent of the pandemic, DeVos seemingly shifted gears, going so far as to threaten public schools with funding loss if they don't open up right away. And here she was in Grand Rapids, praising a private school that opened up and sadly castigating public schools that haven't.
Florida Teacher: The State Lied to Me | Diane Ravitch's blog
How Centrist Democrats Paved the Way for Betsy DeVos – Have You Heard
How Centrist Democrats Paved the Way for Betsy DeVos – Have You Heard
How Centrist Democrats Paved the Way for Betsy DeVos
A consensus between Republicans and centrist Democrats around charter schools has been at the very center of education policy for the past three decades. Guest David Menefee-Libey joins us to talk about the formation of the charter school “treaty,” why it unraveled and what happens next.
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Jennifer and Jack’s forthcoming book A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School, is now available for preorder!
How Centrist Democrats Paved the Way for Betsy DeVos – Have You Heard
NYC Educator: Day One
Day One
I've spent hours, days, weeks and months dreading September. There were so many issues. As chapter leader, I don't feel like I've had a day off since June. How in the hell were we going to open the schools?
No one really knew. De Blasio's ridiculous plan fell apart, as anyone who gave it a cursory examination could have predicted. I remain amazed that he and Carranza could have stood behind such a senseless plan for a moment, let alone many months.
We have to be really careful selecting the next mayor. Full disclosure--I worked for and contributed to Bill de Blasio. I attended his inauguration. We're gonna need a mayor who will rid Tweed of Bloomberg's ghost. We're gonna need a mayor who will not continue to ignore the miserable state of our school facilities.
We can't go through this again. Once is more than enough.
Then there's COVID, of course. My school is on the list of the dreaded 55. As far as I, or anyone in my school administration can tell, the only reported COVID case comes from a person who self-reported before the 8th and hasn't been in the building since March. It's entirely believable to me that the DOE could screw up something like that, because incompetence is their CONTINUE READING: NYC Educator: Day One
Education Matters: Set up to fail
In the last few days, I have read about on Facebook or heard from several how they too felt set up to fail.
No books or the right materials.
No access to a printer, or a working one anyways.
12 hours of work over the weekend and still not caught up.
They spent their planning calling parents of students who hadn't shown up or shown much interest if they did.
Crazy big Duval homeroom classes.
Crazy big brick and mortar ones too.
Way too much to do, and not nearly enough time to do. No slack is given, expectations higher than ever.
Then there is that pesky pandemic too. It's almost like the district office is unaware. You would think they CONTINUE READING: Education Matters: Set up to fail
NYC Public School Parents: Yet another last minute DOE revision of their school reopening plan & even less live teaching for NYC kids
