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Martin Henry Freeman, First Black College President in the US, Honored With Sculpture in Vermont https://www.theroot.com/martin-henry-freeman-first-black-college-president-in-1845953447?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=theroot_twitter via @TheRoot

Connecticut: A Teacher Remembers Cardona | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-sUP via @dianeravitch

As hospitals swell, nursing students are tapped to join the front lines for the second time https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/coronavirus-nursing-students/2020/12/27/a9551142-4481-11eb-975c-d17b8815a66d_story.html?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_local-education

PROOF POINTS: 10 of the most popular stories about education research in 2020 - The Hechinger Report https://hechingerreport.org/10-popular-stories-education-research-2020/

A Cheerleader’s Vulgar Message Prompts a First Amendment Showdown https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/us/supreme-court-schools-free-speech.html

How the Pandemic Is Imperiling a Working-Class College https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/us/college-coronavirus-tuition.html

College Student Who Thought He Recovered Dies From Coronavirus https://patch.com/us/across-america/college-student-who-thought-he-recovered-dies-coronavirus?google_editors_picks=true

Secretary DeVos Releases Statement on Signing of COVID Relief Package https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/secretary-devos-releases-statement-signing-covid-relief-package

Useful New Video From NPR: “Is It Time To Say R.I.P. to P.O.C.?” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=114411 on @Larryferlazzo

Survey Estimates Nearly 2500 Youth Homeless in CT in 2020 https://blog.ctnews.com/kantrowitz/2020/12/28/survey-estimates-nearly-2500-youth-homeless-in-ct-in-2020/

Mike Klonsky's Blog: WEEKEND QUOTABLES - http://michaelklonsky.blogspot.com/2020/12/weekend-quotables.html

US citizen spouses and children of undocumented immigrants will finally get stimulus checks https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/12/28/22202728/mixed-status-immigrant-eligible-stimulus-checks-covid-19-relief

CURMUDGUCATION: Democrats Need A New Theory Of Action

by Mike Simpson / 10min

Democrats Need A New Theory Of Action For four years, Democrats have had a fairly simple theory of action when it came to education. Something along the lines of "Good lord, a crazy lady just came into our china shop riding a bull, waving around a flamethrower, and dragging a shark with a head-mounted laser beam; we have to stop her from destroying the place (while pretending that we have a bull

The Cons of Learning Pods - The New York Times

by Mike Simpson / 40min

Learning Pods Show Their Cracks It turns out that organizing and operating an independent one-room schoolhouse from your backyard is … a lot of work . This past summer, Emily Brady thought she had solved the puzzle of remote learning. Rather than send her 5-year-old to virtual kindergarten, she would set up a Spanish immersion forest school for a few children, hire a teacher and run the idyllic

Connecticut: A Teacher Remembers Cardona | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 1h

Connecticut: A Teacher Remembers Cardona A music teacher in Meriden, Connecticut, wrote this comment about Miguel Cardona on Facebook. The teacher is a BAT. Jake Jacobs, executive director of the BATS, circulated this post. I can tell you this much–he was my principal and evaluator for one year, during a low point in my career. Of the nine principals (and couple dozen assistants) I have worked u

Miguel Cardona Accepts Biden Nomination | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 1h

Miguel Cardona Accepts Biden Nomination On December 23, Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona spoke, accepting President-Elect Joe Biden’s nomination to serve as Secretary of Education: He said: Mr. President-elect, Madam Vice President-elect — thank you for this opportunity to serve. I know just how challenging this year has been for students, for educators, and for parents. I’ve

Here’s How Much Your School District Will Receive From The New Stimulus Package | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

by Mike Simpson / 1h

HERE’S HOW MUCH YOUR SCHOOL DISTRICT WILL RECEIVE FROM THE NEW STIMULUS PACKAGE You may be wondering how much your district will be receiving from the $900 billion stimulus package that was finally signed by President Trump yesterday. In very rough and general terms, it will be $1,000 per student. However, if you want to get a more specific amount – again, such a slightly less rough total, accor

Teacher Tom: Life Itself

by Mike Simpson / 2h

Life Itself They tell us that our schools will fully re-open sometime during the coming year. This is good news for some of the kids and bad for others. For most, it will be a mixed bag. Most will be thrilled to be back again amongst their peers, to play together, to touch one another, to wrestle and pretend and bicker and create together. Likewise, most, in the strange, unexpected freedom the p

Learning Pods: Quite the Lesson for Adults | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

by Mike Simpson / 2h

Learning Pods: Quite the Lesson for Adults As the time approached for the 2020-21 school year to begin, I remember reading about parents of means turning to “learning pods” as an option for creating a sort of one-room schoolhouse experience for a small group of children. Also referred to as “pandemic pods,” the idea is to provide a means for social interaction and face-to-face instruction to sup

Who is Miguel Cardona? [Why was he nominated for Secretary of Education?] | Ed In The Apple

by Mike Simpson / 2h

Who is Miguel Cardona? [Why was he nominated for Secretary of Education?] For sports fans a highly anticipated event is the draft: the commissioner walks to the podium and announces, “In the 2020 draft the Biden Team selects, [hesitates] Miguel Cardona” – who? For weeks speculation circulated among the self-styled educational intelligentsia, would Biden nominate Linda Darling-Hammond, the leader

YESTERDAY

CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: Christmas Recovery Edition (12/27)

by Mike Simpson / 17h

CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Christmas Recovery Edition (12/27) Christmas Recovery Edition We're getting there, and by "there" I mean into whatever future we're about to build in the new year. In the meantime, here's this week's reading list. The Attack on Dr. Jill Biden Is Cloaked Hatred of Teachers and Public Ed While folks have been compiling lists if bad Wall Street Journal takes in 2020, the Epste

Why Joe Biden's stutter is a gift to America | Salon.com

by Mike Simpson / 17h

Why Joe Biden's stutter is a gift to America A president who thinks before he talks? Bring it on In the clip, Donald Trump is standing before a throng of his worshippers, musing about character and how it is shaped by circumstances. "Can you imagine if that happened to me?" he asks, throwing out a hypothetical. "Man, would I be a bad guy . I would be the meanest man in history ." It is February

Wendy Lecker: Two Books That Demonstrate Why Public Education Matters | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 17h

Wendy Lecker: Two Books That Demonstrate Why Public Education Matters Wendy Lecker is a civil rights attorney who writes frequently for the Stamford Advocate. In this column, she reviews two important books: One shows how deeply embedded public schools are in our democratic ideology, the other describes that coordinated assault on the very concept of public schooling. The first is low professor

Outrunning the Pandemic – Racing Through Gadfly’s Top 10 Stories of 2020 | gadflyonthewallblog

by Mike Simpson / 17h

Racing Through Gadfly’s Top 10 Stories of 2020 On most weekends back in the 1980s, you’d probably find me at TILT, the mall’s crowded video game arcade. When I was about 12 – around ’86 or so – one of my favorite games was “Outrun” by Sega. Ever play it? In a cherry red Ferrari convertible with the wind blowing through my virtual hair, I’d race through various summer style environments from beac

Peter Greene: Phooey to Resuming the Big Standardized Tests | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 1d

Peter Greene: Phooey to Resuming the Big Standardized Tests The “reform” lobby, never content without testing and data, has argued in a host of opinion pieces that children really need to be tested this spring. The reformers believe that school is unthinkable and teachers won’t know what to do without annual standardized testing. They have completely imbibed the Texas Miracle That Wasn’t, the “m

My Goals For 2021 | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

by Mike Simpson / 1d

MY GOALS FOR 2021 Yesterday, I shared Eight Teaching Concerns I Have Going Into 2021 . I thought it would be a good reflective exercise for me to follow that post with one sharing my goals for the next year, and thought that at least a few readers might find them interesting. 1. Of course, one major goal is that the eight concerns I listed yesterday get prevented, or at least are substantially a

DEC 26

TOP POSTS THIS WEEK 12/26/20 #REDFORED #tbats #COVID-19 #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #COVIDOUTBREAK #BIDENWINS #TOPBANANAHEADLINES #edsec

by Mike Simpson / 1d

Big Education Ape TOP POSTS THIS WEEK 12/26/20 ‘Slaying Goliath’: Diane Ravitch argues in new book that public education advocates have beat back efforts to privatize schools - The Washington Post The real story of New 

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