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Curmudgucation: More Teacher Effectiveness Mirages | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/10722 on @NEPCtweet
glen brown: Remembering Hank Aaron, one of the greatest MLB players ever - https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2021/01/remembering-hank-aaron-one-of-greatest.html
Uncertainty reigns with Philadelphia teachers getting vaccine - Chalkbeat Philadelphia - https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/1/22/22245168/uncertainty-reigns-with-philadelphia-teachers-getting-vaccine on chalkbeat
As a native Washingtonian, I should have representatives in Congress | GFBrandenburg's Blog - https://wp.me/pGTPP-2Aj
This week, 2 deaths, 199 cases and nothing from Greene http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iYxgC/~3/prZAVtW9VVo/this-week-2-deaths-199-cases-and.html
How Biden Can Fix Trump’s 1776 Disaster https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/22/biden-trump-1776-commission-461483 #press #feedly
UF Students Announce Boycott Against Aramark https://popularresistance.org/uf-students-announce-boycott-against-aramark/
News Analysis: California educators give Newsom's COVID-19 school plan a failing grade http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/ct4-fhu9DG8/news-analysis-california-educators-give-newsoms-schools-covid-19-plan-a-failing-grade
NYC Education Dept. had qualms about going forward with Gifted and Talented exam in pandemic https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-gifted-test-july-memo-20210122-zkxdjr6f6ferbi6i6fagt3kkiu-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/new-york/education/
Chairwoman of San Francisco Art School Facing Budget Issues Resigns https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/arts/design/san-francisco-art-institute-pam-rorke-levy.html
A Report Card for U.S. Schools https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/a-report-card-for-us-schools.html
The perils of associating "white" with "privilege" in the classroom | Salon.com - https://www.salon.com/2021/01/23/the-perils-of-associating-white-with-privilege-in-the-classroom_partner/
TX Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' request to throw out defamation lawsuit filed by Sandy Hook parents https://www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-2650069769/
Universities Should Be Rooted In Change And Innovation – M.A. Escotet via Higher Education, Scholarly Blog - https://miguelescotet.com/?p=4293 via @DrEscotet
Yes, some charter schools do pick their students. It’s not a myth. - https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/yes-some-charter-schools-do-pick-their-students-it-e2-80-99s-not-a-myth/ar-BB1cPLiX#new_tab
Charter Schools Movement Sees a Growth Opportunity in Public School Funding Cuts https://truthout.org/articles/charter-schools-movement-sees-a-growth-opportunity-in-public-school-funding-cuts/?utm_campaign=Truthout+Share+Buttons via @truthout
Kentucky lawmakers plan to tackle school choice, state budget, social justice issues next month https://www.wdrb.com/news/kentucky-lawmakers-plan-to-tackle-school-choice-state-budget-social-justice-issues-next-month/article_effd6374-5a8e-11eb-bf17-2fc56fab8b75.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share via @WDRBNews
Facing a staffing shortage when buildings reopen, SCS looks to hire classroom monitors - Chalkbeat Tennessee - https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/1/21/22243370/scs-staffing-shortage-reopening-memphis-hire-classroom-monitors#new_tab on chalkbeat
Biden’s Bid to Reopen Schools Risks Reigniting Union Tension - Bloomberg - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-22/biden-s-bid-to-reopen-schools-risks-reigniting-union-tensions#new_tab on @bpolitics
The Biden administration should declare a truce in the education wars - New York Daily News - https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-biden-administration-truce-education-20210122-u5s2pyiqyrbxppsbji3ur7tdt4-story.html#new_tab via @nydailynews
NOLA Public Schools suspends COVID-19 testing, pending state review | The Lens https://thelensnola.org/2021/01/22/nola-public-schools-suspends-covid-19-testing-pending-state-review/
Biden wants schools open by May. Experts say COVID testing needs to ramp up first https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article248677140.html
Early Education Department Appointees Have Links to Jill Biden, Teachers' Unions - https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/early-education-department-appointees-have-links-to-jill-biden-teachers-unions/2021/01 by @andrewujifusa on @educationweek
Can Employers Mandate COVID-19 Vaccines? https://www.aol.com/news/employers-mandate-covid-19-vaccines-221700360.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr
Biden / Harris administration charts new course https://educationvotes.nea.org/?p=48715#.YAx4KOZ1xYw.twitter via @EdVotes
Big Education Ape: To Sleep, Perchance To Sue... | Blue Cereal Education - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/to-sleep-perchance-to-sue-blue-cereal.html
Big Education Ape: Cartoons on the “New Normal” | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/cartoons-on-new-normal-larry-cuban-on.html
Big Education Ape: Eight Reasons to Ditch the National Anthem–from a Music Teacher | Teacher in a strange land - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/eight-reasons-to-ditch-national.html
Big Education Ape: The week in coveducation: Stitt continues push for in-person learning - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-week-in-coveducation-stitt.html
Big Education Ape: 7 changes to expect from Biden’s Department of Education led by Miguel Cardona - Education Votes - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/7-changes-to-expect-from-bidens.html
Big Education Ape: Linda Darling-Hammond and Ted Mitchell on President Biden’s plans for education | EdSource - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/linda-darling-hammond-and-ted-mitchell.html
A Wonderful Typo! We Need Common CARE Standards! | Diane Ravitch's blogA Wonderful Typo! We Need Common CARE Standards! Recently Tom Ultican responded to something I posted on Twitter. His response contained a typo. He meant to write “Common Core Standards,” but mistakenly wrote “Common Care Standards.” Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our schools had “Common Care Standards,” in which we acknowledged our responsibility to care about students? The standards might read li
Marie Corfield: Implosion! New Jersey's Fitting Trump SendoffImplosion! New Jersey's Fitting Trump Sendoff New Jersey's largest newspaper, The Star Ledger , is reporting that Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, is set for implosion on February 17th. After that date, all four of Trump's AC casinos—Trump Taj Mahal, Trump Plaza, Trump World's Fair and Trump Marina—will officially be no more. Trump Plaza one month before it closed. So classy. (Photo | Dan McQuade)
CURMUDGUCATION: FL: Voucher and Privatization Endgame in SightFL: Voucher and Privatization Endgame in Sight Florida's legislature is at it again, joining in a national trend of using the pandemic crisis to fuel school voucher initiatives. Manny Diaz, Jr., (R-Hialeah) has spent his career chip chip chipping away at public education in Florida, and yesterday he returned with another bold idea. Florida has allowed choice programs to grow like an unweeded gar
THE LESSON IS, ELECTIONS MATTER – Dad Gone WildTHE LESSON IS, ELECTIONS MATTER “Scripture tells us to envision that everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree and no one shall make them afraid.” – Amanda Gorman Elections have consequences – it’s a phrase most of us are familiar with. Currently, it’s a trope on full display in Tennessee where legislators have passed major bills on education and healthcare in the first few weeks of t
National Town Hall on Suspending High Stakes Student Testing | Cloaking InequityNATIONAL TOWN HALL ON SUSPENDING HIGH STAKES STUDENT TESTING Register now – National Town Hall on Suspending High Stakes Student Testing on 1/26 at 6 p.m. EST w/ Congressman Jamaal Bowman , Dean Julian Vasquez Heilig , Professor Jack Schneider and many more. MC’d by Bob Schaeffer of FairTest and @ilana4regent – register for free here . See all of Cloaking Inequity posts about high-stakes testing
NYC Public School Parents: Why the DOE should cancel the unfair, unreliable and invalid "gifted" test now and forever & podcast on need to cancel all high-stakes testing this yearWhy the DOE should cancel the unfair, unreliable and invalid "gifted" test now and forever & podcast on need to cancel all high-stakes testing this year Please read my piece published today at Gotham Gazette . It explains why the DOE should cancel the "gifted" tests immediately; now and forever. It makes no sense to continue this invalid, unreliable and biased exam, especially in the midst of a
Schools Matter: Gov. Bill Lee to Sacrifice Third Graders to Help Him in 2024Gov. Bill Lee to Sacrifice Third Graders to Help Him in 2024 Prior to this week, the last time a Tennessee governor brought the General Assembly into Special Session to pass education legislation was January 2010, and it was all about getting more federal money to pay for the schools that state politicians are unwilling to support. Responding to call by Gov. Phil Bredesen (D), the TN legislature
THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it. + TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORTTENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT EDUCATION POLITICS AND POLICY IN THE VOLUNTEER STATE TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT I Don’t Even Have a Headline 1K by Andy Spears / 1d So, the General Assembly has passed a bill creating essentially mandatory retention for third grade students who fail to meet certain benchmarks on TNReady tests. Here’s the key text from HB 7004 , that passed overwhelmingly in both chamber
TEACHER TOM THIS WEEK IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATIONTeacher Tom This is the Story of Our Lives 1d What If Children Aren't Idiots Who Must Be Taught to Think 2K 2d Ideas for What to Say Instead of "Be Careful" 1K 3d Making Life Matter 100+ 4d Chaos or Community? 200+ 5d The Magnificence of Humans 95 8d Teacher Tom
SSPI TONY THURMOND: STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONCalifornia Department of Education SSPI TONY THURMOND STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION COVID-19: USDA Child Nutrition Response #71 14h Nationwide Waiver of Food Service Management Contract Duration in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) – Extension. 75 Cent Rate Increase Payment Information 14h Pursuant to the 2020 Budget Act,
THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) #BLM #BLACKLIVESMATTERNewBlackMan (in Exile) THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) “I Wonder When I Die Will He Give Me Receipts?”: A Review of Marcus J. Moore’s 'The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America' by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d “I Wonder When I Die Will He Give Me Receipts?”: A Review of Marcus J. Moore’s The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by
THIS WEEK Education Research ReportEducation Research Report A Misguided Guide for Implementing Innovation Schools by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 2d The Progressive Policy Institute recently published a “how-to” guide for entities such as charter management companies that seek to develop innovation schools in urban communities. Carrie Sampson of Arizona State University and Sarah Diem of the University of Missouri reviewed The Third Wa
THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 Video: “Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents” by Larry Ferlazzo / now ZIPNON / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from Wired to The Best “Language Maps” : YESTERDAY Saturday’s Must-Read Articles On School Reopenings by Larry Ferlazzo / 10h llorcraft / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST PO
KEEP UP/ CATCH UP WITH DIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG A site to discuss better education for all #REDFORED #tbats #COUP #IMPEACHEDAGAINDiane 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 Leonie Haimson to Mayor de Blasio: Cancel the Tests for Gifted and Talented Programs NOW! by dianeravitch / 12min Parent advocate Leonie Haimson has written an urgent plea to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza. The
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