TOP POSTS THIS WEEK&nbsp; 12/5/20

What I Learned from a High School Student | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

DCPS needs to let people know where that extra 500k a month is going. I was initially against the referendum. I know the district needs money, but a referendum ties its hands with what it could do. A millage increase could be used for anything, including salaries, and as veteran teachers are about to get @*#$ed, we see how important having flexibility would be. I was told by a district official

UCL Institute of Education: Does Class Size Matter? We’ll Get a Better Answer If We Rethink the Debate | National Education Policy Center

What I Learned from a High School Student Individuals writing about what they learned from former teachers is common. It is uncommon, however, for teachers to write about what they learned from former students. I do not mean those many instances when tech-savvy students helped teachers solve hardware and software problems. I mean the kinds of learning that doesn’t come from only books but from t

TEACHER TOM THIS WEEK IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

UCL Institute of Education: Does Class Size Matter? We’ll Get a Better Answer If We Rethink the Debate For many teachers, large classes present problems which adversely affect their practice and their pupils’ learning. This is what our surveys show. But researchers and commentators often have a different view. For them the class size debate can be summed up with the question: does class size aff

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Teacher Tom False Beliefs 100+ 1d The Complete Education 100 2d This is What Real Learning Looks Like 2K 3d "Now Eat Your Food" 500+ 4d Talking to Children About the Pandemic and Everything 400+ 5d How Brains Grow 1K 8d Teacher Tom

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California Department of Education SSPI THURMOND STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION New Off-Site Monitoring Best Practices Fact Sheets 1d California Department of Education Nutrition Services Division is pleased to share eight best practices fact sheets for conducting off-site monitoring of Child Nutrition Programs (CNP) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Register for the Cali

THIS WEEK Education Research Report

NewBlackMan (in Exile) Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: Resisting Carceral Cities – Police, Prisons, & Punishment in Perspective by Mark Anthony Neal / 10h 'Black people have faced a disproportionate amount of police surveillance, arrests, and incarcerations. Join a conversation about historical perspectives on the rise of prisons and police and resistance to them. The discussion features

THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

Education Research Report THIS WEEK Education Research Report Impactful science teaching requires minimum five hours instruction weekly by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 1d Unlike traditional instruction, inquiry-based instruction approaches science learning through sustained real-world projects and hands-on experimentation rather than fact memorization, recall and prescribed experiments. It is considered

Saturday, November 28, 2020 KEEP UP/ CATCH UP WITH DIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG A site to discuss better education for all #REDFORED #tbats #COVID-19 #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 Saturday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings by Larry Ferlazzo / 10h geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : 5 Things We’ve Learned About Virtual School In 2020 is from NPR. Reopening Schools Before a Children’s Vaccine is fr

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Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all KEEP UP/ CATCH UP WITH DIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG A site to discuss better education for all Teacher Burnout in the Pandemic by dianeravitch / 20min The New York Times published an article recently by Natasha Singer–one of the best reporters on education issues in the Times –about the toll that the pandemic is taking on teachers. An extr

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THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES What ‘backlash’ against Black progress really means: A lesson on race from Eddie Glaude’s new book - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/12/04/what-backlash-against-black-progress-really-means-lesson-race-eddie-glaudes-new-book/ More than 100,000 NYC students were homeless last year: report - New York Daily News - https://

We Are All Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf | Teacher in a strange land

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We Are All Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf I just finished reading A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door: The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School , by Jennifer Berkshire and Jack Schneider . Berkshire and Schneider are co-hosts of the podcast Have You Heard , which is the best $2 I spend every month—and, as journalist and historian, both bring interesting perspectives to the ongoing di

CURMUDGUCATION: Does Your School Suffer From Advanced Testivitis

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Does Your School Suffer From Advanced Testivitis In some quarters we seem to have cycled back around to the old argument that the Big Standardized Test provides an assortment of necessary data with no actual downside, so let's trot those puppies out here for this already-maimed year. I've spent a bunch of time talking about why the tests provide no actual benefit ( here , here and here , for exa

Ex-teacher’s union boss makes play to be Biden’s Education chief - POLITICO

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Ex-teacher’s union boss makes play to be Biden’s Education chief Lily Eskelsen García is courting key Hispanic groups and even GOP senators. The former president of the nation's largest teachers union is working to lock up support from Republican senators and Hispanic leaders in her bid to be picked as Education secretary, according to officials familiar with the talks. Lily Eskelsen García is e

"Bye-bye, Betsy DeVos. You won't be missed," says Sanders to billionaire education secretary | Salon.com

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"Bye-bye, Betsy DeVos. You won't be missed," says Sanders to billionaire education secretary Sanders calls DeVos "the worst education secretary in the history of America" as she attacks tuition-free college Sen. Bernie Sanders late Tuesday called Betsy DeVos "the worst education secretary in the history of America" and made abundantly clear that he's not mourning her imminent departure after the

Teacher Tom: False Beliefs

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False Beliefs It's not just possible, but likely, that for most of us, most of the time, we possess the necessary intelligence, but are hindered by a false belief. For instance, most physicists have given up on the reality of the existence of space and time, yet we've lived our entire lives convinced that spacetime exists. Indeed, we can't even conceive of it, any more than we can envision a col

Bob Shepherd: The Standardized Testing Hoax | Diane Ravitch's blog

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Bob Shepherd: The Standardized Testing Hoax Bob Shepherd, a frequent commenter here, has been a curriculum writer, as assessment developer, a publisher, and a classroom tea her. As frequent readers of this log know, he is also a polymath, with a broad, nearly encyclopedic range of knowledge. In this essential post , he explains why standardized testing is invalid and useless for accountability p

A VERY BUSY DAY 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 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-in-education-larry-ferlazzos_28.html Friday’s Must-Read Articles & Must-Watch Videos On School Closures by Lar

Will the State Senate Punish Ohio’s 1.6 Million Public School Students by Letting School Funding Reform Die? | janresseger

5 Things We've Learned About Virtual School In 2020 | 89.3 KPCC

Will the State Senate Punish Ohio’s 1.6 Million Public School Students by Letting School Funding Reform Die? The Ohio House Finance Committee voted unanimously (32-0) on Wednesday to refer Substitute House Bill 305, the proposal for a new Fair School Funding Formula, to the full Ohio House for approval. And late yesterday afternoon, t he Ohio House of Representatives passed the bill by huge marg

Jersey Jazzman: New Jersey's School COVID-19 Operating Plans: Still Racially Biased, Still Inadequately Funded For Many Students

5 Things We've Learned About Virtual School In 2020 Deborah Rosenthal starts her virtual kindergarten class on Zoom every morning with a song — today, it's the Spanish version of, "If You're Happy and You Know It." Her students clap along. There's a greeting from the class mascot (a dragon), yoga, meditation and then some practice with letter sounds: "Oso, oso, O, O, O". Rosenthal teaches Spanis

Beware of Fake Colleges. Learn to Recognize Them. | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

New Jersey's School COVID-19 Operating Plans: Still Racially Biased, Still Inadequately Funded For Many Students Earlier this year , I posted about the racial inequities in New Jersey's school reopening plans, which were all affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Following that blog post, I used some updated data, refined my analysis a bit, and wrote about it over at the NJPP website . In both of th

Register for the California STEAM Symposium + New Off-Site Monitoring Best Practices Fact Sheets - Year 2020 (CA Dept of Education)

Beware of Fake Colleges. Learn to Recognize Them. My seniors are in the process of considering postsecondary education, and given the proliferation of fraudulent sites purporting to offer postsecondary degrees (and the reality that online education is increasingly attractive during a pandemic), it is important for graduates and their parents to know identifiers of potentially fraudulent or other

NYC Educator: What Parents Need Now Are Threats, Says Mayor

Register for the California STEAM Symposium - Year 2020 (CA Dept of Education) #CASTEAM20 Keynote Speakers and Early Registration Prizes Announced! New Off-Site Monitoring Best Practices Fact Sheets - Nutrition (CA Dept of Education) - https://www.cde.ca.gov/ls/nu/newoffsitemonfactsheet.asp REDWOOD CITY—Give yourself the gifts of community, inspiration, and revitalization by joining us at this ye

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What Parents Need Now Are Threats, Says Mayor Given that students can't fail, don't have to hand in work, and are given an extra year to catch up on classes, it's odd to see Mayor de Blasio out there making demands of parents. The mayor is eager to get some of his woefully overcrowded schools open five days a week for the 35% of city students who've opted into live education. So he's saying if y

DEC 03

Nancy MacLean: How the Koch Network Fosters Disinformation | Diane Ravitch's blog

Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES 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

As COVID-19 Continues, Classroom Learning Gaps Between Haves And Haves-Nots Are Getting Wider | HuffPost

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

Teacher Tom: The Complete Education

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

Houston: Why HISD Should Have the Best Teachers in the Nation By Now | Diane Ravitch's blog

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

How a soccer club won a $1.2 million grant to open a charter school from DeVos’s Education Department - The Washington Post

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

CURMUDGUCATION: Election Polling and the Big Standardized Test

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

Politics in the Zoom Room – Have You Heard

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

LESS TEAM FIDELITY AND MORE TEAM WORK WOULD BE WELCOME – Dad Gone Wild

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 –

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

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

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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

DEC 02

Master Plan for Early Learning and Care - Year 2020 (CA Dept of Education)

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 - https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-01/california-unveiled-a-blueprint-for-the-future-of-early-education-critics-say-its-

Nobody Should Be Wasting Time Worrying About When to Administer Standardized Tests | janresseger

State Superintendent Tony Thurmond Issues Statement Applauding Release of Master Plan for Early Learning and Care SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond issued the following statement in response to Governor Gavin Newsom’s release of the Master Plan for Early Learning and Care: California for All Kids , a roadmap for building a more equitable, comprehensive early lea

Follow these #EdJustice Superstars | Schott Foundation for Public Education

Nobody Should Be Wasting Time Worrying About When to Administer Standardized Tests Parents, children, teachers, principals, and school superintendents are living through a time of unknowns. COVID-19 is raging across the states with many public schools operating only online. Some public schools, which have been able to open in person or on hybrid schedules, have subsequently been forced to close

The telling things Barack Obama wrote -- and didn’t mention -- about his education policies in new memoir - The Washington Post

Follow these #EdJustice Superstars It’s that time of the year again... the Schott Foundation’s third annual list of 10 Education Justice Superstars to follow on social media! Spice up your feed with knowledge and inspiration from these influential and energized advocates. They’re leading the way, pushing racial and gender equity, fair funding, community schools, grassroots organizing and other c

Community schools are the schools we need now

The telling things Barack Obama wrote — and didn’t mention — about his education policies in new memoir In his best-selling new book , “A Promised Land,” Barack Obama writes compellingly about his road to the White House and key moments and policies of his first term as president. There’s the Affordable Care Act. The crisis he inherited in the U.S. financial system and his successful efforts to

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To the rescue — The schools we need now are community schools When the coronavirus struck, the community-school model showed how quickly families and schools needing extra resources could be helped W hen America’s schools shut down in mid-March as a result of Covid-19 and transitioned to some form of remote learning, the nation’s community schools responded rapidly. That’s because these schools