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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 | Diane Ravitch's blog

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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 | HuffPost

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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

Teacher Tom: The Complete Education

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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 | Diane Ravitch's blog

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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 to open a charter school from DeVos’s Education Department - The Washington Post

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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

CURMUDGUCATION: Election Polling and the Big Standardized Test

by Mike Simpson / 49min

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 – Have You Heard

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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 – Dad Gone Wild

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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

Wednesday, December 2, 2020 Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

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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

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THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES #REDFORED #tbats #COVID-19 #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #COVIDOUTBREAK #BIDENWINS #46

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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 - 

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