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‘These buildings are not all created equal’: Philadelphia district plans to reopen 53 schools March 8 - Chalkbeat Philadelphia - https://philadelphia.chalkbeat.org/2021/3/1/22307531/these-buildings-are-not-all-created-equal-philadelphia-district-plans-to-reopen-53-schools-march-8 on chalkbeat
NYC Educator: UFT Executive Board March 1, 2021--DOE Looking at HS Openings - http://nyceducator.com/2021/03/uft-executive-board-march-1-2021-doe.html
California Offers $2 Billion Incentive In A Push For In-Person Learning | 89.3 KPCC - https://www.scpr.org/news/2021/03/01/96852/california-offers-2-billion-incentive-in-a-push-fo/
Education Research Report: More High-Quality Early Childhood Math Programs for Dual Language Learners Needed - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/
New Hampshire: Rightwing Commissioner Offers Top Job to DeVos Clone | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-tGZ via @dianeravitch
The Young Socialists' School-to-Union Pipeline - Members of the Democratic Socialists of America are embracing the "rank and file strategy." https://inthesetimes.com/article/democratic-socialists-rank-and-file-union-jobs
U.S. Department of Education Announces More Biden-Harris Appointees https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-announces-more-biden-harris-appointees
Wisconsin School Board Member Makes White-Ass Argument Against Black History Month https://www.theroot.com/wisconsin-school-board-member-makes-white-ass-argument-1846382713
D.C. Council explores measures that would provide more education oversight, curtail mayor’s power over schools https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-council-bills-mayoral-school-control/2021/03/01/0e7012ca-7ab0-11eb-a976-c028a4215c78_story.html
Firm teachers union stance means LAUSD will be slower to reopen than other parts of state http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/lqyyGg1rBO0/firm-teachers-union-stance-means-lausd-will-be-slower-to-reopen-than-other-parts-of-state
California's $2-billion school reopening plan: What you need to know http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/P1Mu4evDAs8/california-schools-reopening-amid-covid-what-to-know
Biden's Education Secretary Confirmed https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/01/us/politics/education-secretary-confirmed.html
A look at whether charter schools are fiscal threats to local school districts - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/03/02/charter-schools-fiscal-effect-on-school-districts/
Perspective | No, Shakespeare isn’t being ‘canceled,’ says this teacher accused of doing it https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/03/02/no-shakespeare-isnt-being-cancelled-says-teacher-accused-of-doing-it/?tid=ss_tw
Philadelphia School District is reopening. Here’s the plan for students and teachers returning. - https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-school-district-reopening-deal-20210301.html via @PhillyInquirer
Too little, too late? Schools deal may not alter Newsom recall politics https://politi.co/3bT6FqQ
Senate confirms Cardona as Education secretary - POLITICO - https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/01/senate-cardona-confirmation-education-secretary-472163
Good riddance to Richard Carranza — the worst schools chancellor in NYC history https://nypost.com/2021/02/26/good-riddance-to-the-worst-schools-chancellor-in-nyc-history-2/
Democrats, Republicans can't agree on school funding in newest COVID aid package - ABC News - https://abcn.ws/3szP3XC via @ABC
Seattle teachers union files unfair labor practice complaints against school district https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/seattle-teachers-union-files-unfair-labor-practice-complaints-against-school-district/
Louisiana teachers call John Bel Edwards' $400 pay raise 'cheap': 'It is a slap in the face' | Legislature | theadvocate.com - https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_f4f0a47e-7850-11eb-90fd-cbbb12e32f34.html#new_tab
NC Senate veto override vote on schools reopening bill | Raleigh News & Observer - https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article249279775.html#new_tab on newsobserver
6 Dr. Seuss books won't be published for racist images - https://apnews.com/article/dr-seuss-books-racist-images-d8ed18335c03319d72f443594c174513#new_tab on @ap
The Crisis in Civic Education | Harvard Magazine - https://www.harvardmagazine.com/node/75742
Senators pass bill expanding West Virginia charter school system - WV MetroNews - https://wvmetronews.com/?p=403611 by @BradMcElhinny
Thousands of students reported 'missing' from school systems nationwide amid COVID-19 pandemic - ABC News - https://abcn.ws/3kyO5YY via @ABC
Tennessee Senate votes to pass transgender high school athlete bill - https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/01/tennessee-senate-votes-pass-transgender-athlete-bill/6869465002/#new_tab via @tennessean
CURMUDGUCATION: Donors Choose Monday: Out of the Ordinary - http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2021/03/donors-choose-monday-out-of-ordinary.html
Big Education Ape: SHOW ME THE MONEY – Dad Gone Wild - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/03/show-me-money-dad-gone-wild.html
Big Education Ape: LA teachers union slams California schools plan as 'propagating structural racism' - POLITICO - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/03/la-teachers-union-slams-california.html
American Federation of Teachers president reacts to changes in educational assessment requirements for 2020-21 school year - The Highland County PressAmerican Federation of Teachers president reacts to changes in educational assessment requirements for 2020-21 school year American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement in response to the Biden administration’s announcement of changes to assessment and accountability requirements for the 2020-2021 school year: “Nothing is ideal during a pandemic, espec
Voucher Vultures Continue to Lose in Court + Tylor Talks Teaching – Tennessee Education ReportVoucher Vultures Continue to Lose in Court – Tennessee Education Report VOUCHER VULTURES CONTINUE TO LOSE IN COURT Parent advocacy group Public Funds for Public Schools notes that the Tennessee Supreme Court denied a motion by school privatization advocates to allow implementation of Gov. Lee’s voucher scheme while the issue of the constitutionality of the program is sorted out. Here’s more from
Resilient Public Schools: Bright and Dark Sides (Part 4) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom PracticeResilient Public Schools: Bright and Dark Sides (Part 4) Why have U.S. public schools rebounded from natural disasters like Covid-19? Answer: Americans’ social beliefs both in the importance of schooling, what a “real” school looks like, and the long-term efficiency of the age-graded school organization with its “grammar of schooling” explain why public schools gradually reopened its doors. Amer
Six Dr. Seuss books to stop being published over ‘hurtful and wrong’ racial portrayals - Raw Story - Celebrating 16 Years of Independent JournalismSix Dr. Seuss books to stop being published over ‘hurtful and wrong’ racial portrayals Six Dr. Seuss books are being retired after decades of criticism over racist imagery in the illustrated children’s stories. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the organization that carries on the author’s legacy, announced Tuesday that it will stop publishing and licensing “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,”
Sherman Dorn: What Ed Policy Wonks Might Want to Know About the CDC School Advice, February 2021 | National Education Policy CenterSherman Dorn: What Ed Policy Wonks Might Want to Know About the CDC School Advice, February 2021 Three and a half weeks into the new administration, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new set of guidelines for K-12 schools . The general features of the guidelines have been well-covered in the press (with some minor mistakes–it’s complicated!), and some
Grassroots Education Network- February 2021 Newsletter - Network For Public EducationGrassroots Education Network- February 2021 Newsletter The NPE Grassroots Education Network is a network of over 160 grassroots organizations nationwide who have joined together to preserve, promote, improve, and strengthen our public schools. If you know of a group that would like to join this powerful network, please go here to sign on. If you have any questions about the NPE Grassroots Educat
The Talk – radical eyes for equityThe Talk Yesterday I had The Talk with two of my classes—my first-year writing seminar and my upper-level writing/research course. Doing so proved to me once again that you can’t have The Talk too often with young people. Students were under-informed, misinformed, and worst of all, filled with fear. The Talk, of course, for these classes was about plagiarism. Two students in separate classes sha
Urgent: Tell President Biden to Stop the Tests - Network For Public EducationUrgent: Tell President Biden to Stop the Tests In December of 2019, candidate Joe Biden promised that if elected, he would stop standardized testing. Yet the U.S. Department of Education has announced that states must test students in the midst of the pandemic. That is a wrongheaded policy that puts data first and children last. Write Joe Biden. Tell him to step in and cancel the tests. 1. Pleas
Diane Ravitch: Twenty Years of Failing the Schools - Progressive.orgTwenty Years of Failing the Schools - Progressive.org Twenty Years of Failing the Schools To fix education, Biden must not only undo Trump’s legacy but reverse two decades of a disastrous ‘reform’ movement P resident Joe Biden will have his work cut out in repairing the damage done to U.S. education caused by Donald Trump and his one-time Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. But Biden and his Sec
A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007 #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #openonlywhensafeLarry 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 Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007 - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/02/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos_27.html ‘Hybri
NYC Public School Parents: Council Members Dromm and Treyger urge Congress to make sure while funding schools, NYS and NYC can't pull back their support at the same timeCouncil Members Dromm and Treyger urge Congress to make sure while funding schools, NYS and NYC can't pull back their support at the same time See the letter below, sent late last week from Council Members Danny Dromm and Mark Treyger, chairs of the Council Finance and Education Committees to New York Senators and our Congressional delegation, urging them to provide the additional funding our sc
CURMUDGUCATION: I've Got A New Blogging JobI've Got A New Blogging Job For many years, Diane Ravitch has taken on the task of maintaining a sort of town square for folks who care about the health and future of public education. Most of us who are part of this blogosphere owe her a heap of thanks for helping us find our audiences and for amplifying our voices. But right now, Diane is scaling back (so, only 50 posts a week instead of 600)
Bill Gates Invites You to Learn About “The State of Education” | Diane Ravitch's blogBill Gates Invites You to Learn About “The State of Education” Let’s just say it upfront. If you wanted to know more about “The State of Education,” and how to “rebuild a more equitable system,” the last person you would ask is a billionaire. Right? Specifically Bill Gates, who has spent billions over the past 20 years promoting high-stakes testing, charter schools, merit pay, value-added measur
Teacher Tom: The Strongest Kids in the WorldThe Strongest Kids in the World We were talking about how strong we are, children taking turns sharing feats of strength they had or could perform. It had started with a boy boasting that he was the strongest kid in the world. Others had challenged his assertion, offering as proof stories of other kids they knew who were very strong, the superior strength of big kids, the unbelievable strength o
Response to Legislative Deal on School Reopening - Year 2021 (CA Dept of Education)Response to Legislative Deal on School Reopening SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond today issued the following statement in response to a legislative deal announced by Governor Gavin Newsom and lawmakers that is designed to help more schools open classrooms for in-person learning: “There is no question that students learn best when they are together with their pe
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THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Monday, March 1, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #openonlywhensafeBig Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES For Some Black Students, Remote Learning Has Offered A Chance To Thrive https://www.scpr.org/news/2021/03/01/96842/for-some-black-students-
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