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Why Elections Matter: the End of Common Enrollment in Oakland | Parents United for Public Schools - https://wp.me/p5L5zy-oz on @wordpressdotcom

Valuing Diversity and Investing in Our Nation's Children https://www.huffingtonpost.com/bruce-lesley/valuing-diversity-and-inv_b_6426076.html?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 via @HuffPostPol

New Leadership For the Big Ten Universities: The Glass Ceiling Is Cracking - https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2021/05/01/new-leadership-for-the-big-ten-universities-the-glass-ceiling-is-cracking/?sh=31903a5a2925 by @@MikeNietzel on @forbes

Statement: Jones v. Mississippi sends concerning message about how we value children | First Focus on Children - https://firstfocus.org/?p=20049 on @first_focus

The “Whitening” of Camden’s Teachers - New Jersey Policy Perspective - https://www.njpp.org/?p=25967 by @jerseyjazzman on @NJPolicy

Funding, Asset Management, Community Conditions Hamper Camden City Schools’ 1:1 Technology Initiative - https://www.njpen.com/?p=30108 by @https://twitter.com/NJ_Pen on NJ PEN

Education and Civil Rights for the New Decade Conference – UK College of Education - https://education.uky.edu/?p=13168

Education Research Report: Six out of every 10 teachers believe that changing the design of the classroom is key to improving learning - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/

SBE Agenda for May 2021 - State Board of Education (CA Dept of Education) - https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ag/ag/yr21/agenda202105.asp

Three Great New Videos From “Facing History” About Why We Need To Learn About History | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=117238 on @Larryferlazzo

2021’s Best Posts From This Blog – So Far! | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=117248 on @Larryferlazzo

Pandemic puts school accountability in limbo https://edsource.org/podcast/pandemic-puts-school-accountability-in-limbo

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Wants Justice Department to Suspend Police Grants Amid Investigation Into Policing Practices https://www.theroot.com/naacp-legal-defense-and-educational-fund-wants-justice-1846799196

Florida Court to Determine Whether Teacher Can Hang ‘Black Lives Matter’ Flag in Class https://www.theroot.com/florida-court-to-determine-whether-teacher-can-hang-bl-1846799252

Virginia allies with, then backs away from, controversial math anti-tracking movement https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/fairfax-county-schools-math-classes-tracking/2021/04/29/197aa29c-a7a2-11eb-8d25-7b30e74923ea_story.html

Eli Broad rose to service when L.A. was at a low point. His imprint is impossible to miss http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/CwviLSt1I2A/eli-broad-rose-to-service-when-l-a-was-at-a-low-point-his-imprint-is-impossible-to-miss

Full coverage: Eli Broad dies at 87 http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/gp1AEVX5Be4/full-coverage-eli-broad-dead-at-87

Video: I Think Every Educator Could Benefit From Watching This Short Stacey Abrams Address On Teachers https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2021/04/30/video-i-think-every-educator-could-benefit-from-watching-this-short-stacey-abrams-address-on-teachers/

Nation's Largest HBCU Sees Record-Breaking Donations https://www.npr.org/2021/05/01/992480703/nations-largest-hbcu-sees-record-breaking-donations

A Reckoning After Morehouse Withdraws From Debate Tournament, Citing 'Anti-Blackness' https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/992485927/a-reckoning-after-morehouse-withdraws-from-debate-tournament-citing-anti-blackne

Chicago High Schoolers Return To Classrooms For A Bittersweet End To The School Year https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/992545217/chicago-high-schoolers-return-to-classrooms-for-a-bittersweet-end-to-the-school-

“When trauma is shared: How to heal together” – Parenting for Liberation - https://wp.me/p7fXox-1PK on @wordpressdotcom

May Day 2021 | Bill Ayers - https://wp.me/p3AjC-SD on @wordpressdotcom

Ed Notes Online: Rally in Harlem as Parents, Educators Stage Counter Rally to Mostly White Parent Demands to Open Schools and disregard safety issues - Today, 10 AM - - https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2021/05/rally-in-harlem-as-parents-educators.html

Education Matters: Do Greene and the board think being gay is a choice? - https://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2021/04/do-greene-and-board-think-being-gay-is.html

NJ Teacher Suspended and Under Investigation for Cursing at Black Students While Calling George Floyd a 'Criminal' https://www.theroot.com/nj-teacher-suspended-and-under-investigation-for-cursin-1846804457


Big Education Ape: COVID-19, the educational equity crisis, and the opportunity ahead - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/05/covid-19-educational-equity-crisis-and.html


Big Education Ape: Teacher Evaluations (Hammers & Nails) | Blue Cereal Education - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/05/teacher-evaluations-hammers-nails-blue.html


Big Education Ape: Love, American Style – Grumpy Old Teacher - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/05/love-american-style-grumpy-old-teacher.html


Big Education Ape: Eli Broad, Who Helped Reshape Los Angeles, Dies at 87 - The New York Times - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/05/eli-broad-who-helped-reshape-los.html


Big Education Ape: Biden Chooses Ex-Obama Official for Key Position in Department of Education | Diane Ravitch's blog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/05/biden-chooses-ex-obama-official-for-key.html


Big Education Ape: Grassroots Education Network- April 2021 Newsletter - Network For Public Education - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/05/grassroots-education-network-april-2021.html


Big Education Ape: Can Unions Defang Charter School Vampires? | gadflyonthewallblog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/05/can-unions-defang-charter-school.html





Nested Organizations: Public Schooling Is Complex | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Nested Organizations: Public Schooling Is Complex In the previous post on the complexity of teacher decision-making, I mentioned that not every teacher or parent knows that classrooms are embedded in complex organizations that affect what teachers do daily. This post tries to get at that organizational and political (yes, political) complexity that colors both how and what teachers teach and the
Musical Interlude: It’s Got That Swing | Live Long and Prosper
Musical Interlude: It’s Got That Swing Edited from original post of April 29, 2016. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUKE! Duke Ellington and his orchestra, with Louis Armstrong on the Ed Sullivan Show, 1961… Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was born to two musicians on April 29, 1899. He began his musical career — starting piano lessons — at the age of 7. At 15 he wrote his first song (1914)…and spent the next 60
Education Matters: A tale of two high schools named Robert E. Lee.
A tale of two high schools named Robert E. Lee. The city has been tearing itself apart for a year now as DCPS fails the city once again by not quickly changing the names of schools named after confederate generals. Instead of doing both the easy and right thing, DCPS has engaged in a year-long odyssey. Another school district faced with the exact same issue did things much quicker and better. Fr
CURMUDGUCATION: Dammit, Joe
Dammit, Joe So up on my screen pops the headline "Biden says K-12 education isn't working--calls for fgre pre-K to 'grade 14' " The good news is that the headlines is, as headlines will be, a bit inaccurate. The bad news is everything else. Starting with this lede: President Joe Biden on Wednesday praised the nation's K-12 education system for fueling America's economic growth for almost a centu
THE NEW ABNORMAL HAS IT’S PLUSSES – Dad Gone Wild
THE NEW ABNORMAL HAS IT’S PLUSSES “The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows” ― Stephen King Clipping the leash to the dog, I check that I have the necessary plastic bag in my pocket. Once verified, I call out to my 10-year old son, “You about ready?” “We going now?”, he responds from the living room, “Coming.” It’s 7:45 and in a normal year, we’d be
THIS WEEK FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
THIS WEEK FROM THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Secretary Cardona to Conclude 'Help is Here' School Reopening Tour and Deliver Remarks on School Reopening at Amidon-Bowen Elementary School in Washington, D.C. 2d On Friday, April 30, U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona will conclude the "Help is Here" School Reopening Tour, with a visit to Amidon-Bowen Elementary School in Washington, D.C. A
Network for Public Education Blog Post of the Day This Week
Blog Posts Archive - Network For Public Education Network for Public Education Blog Posts of the Day This Week Blog Post of the Day Our NPE Blogs of the Day feature what we think are interesting and important blog posts centered on issues of public education. The views expressed by the bloggers are, of course, entirely their own. To submit links and tips for inclusion, please send an email to npe
THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it
Dad Gone Wild – Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it. THE NEW ABNORMAL HAS IT’S PLUSSES by TC Weber / 18h “The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows” ― Stephen King Clipping the leash to the dog, I check that I have the necessary plastic bag in my pocket. Once verified, I call out to my 10-year old son, “You about ready?” “We going now?”, he responds
TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT THIS WEEK
TENNESSEE EDUCATION REPORT Rhetoric vs. Reality: Bill Lee School Funding Edition 49 by Andy Spears / 1d As the Tennessee General Assembly passed Gov. Bill Lee’s budget today which included maintaining the woefully inadequate status quo for school funding, the Tennessee Education Association (TEA) offered the following statement expressing their disappointment: “The budget passed by the General A
TEACHER TOM THIS WEEK IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION + Teacher Tom: Let's Turn The World Around: Teacher Tom's Play Summit
Teacher Tom TEACHER TOM THIS WEEK IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION Teacher Tom: Let's Turn The World Around: Teacher Tom's Play Summit We heard it from Mandela, "Turn this world around, For the children" - turn this world around. He's done it once before, and now we hear his call For the children, turn this world around. Turn, turn, turn, Turn this world around For the children, turn this world aroun
SSPI TONY THURMOND: STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
California Department of Education SSPI TONY THURMOND STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SBE Agenda for May 2021 14h Agenda for the California State Board of Education (SBE) meeting on May 12-13, 2021. 2021 California Exemplary Arts Education Awards 21 1d State Superintendent Tony Thurmond Announces . Accessing Educational Data 1d Obtain data collected by the California D
THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) #BLM #BLACKLIVESMATTER
NewBlackMan (in Exile) THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) The New Conversation with Dr. Dwight A. McBride | Ep. 3 Jonathan Holloway by Mark Anthony Neal / 1h " Jonathan Holloway , a U.S. historian, took office as the 21st president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on July 1, 2020. He also serves as a University Professor and Distinguished Professor. In this series, Dr. Dwight A.
THIS WEEK Education Research Report
Education Research Report Six out of every 10 teachers believe that changing the design of the classroom is key to improving learning by Jonathan Kantrowitz / 16h Several studies have already acknowledged the benefits of a suitably designed classroom. Research News \ facing a teacher at a blackboard has been a reality for decades. However, research reveals that this way of organizing the classro
THIS WEEK IN EDUCATION 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 2021’s Best Posts From This Blog – So Far! by Larry Ferlazzo / 30min Twice each year, I post my favorite posts that appeared in during the previous six months. This post is for my favorites from the first half of 2021 (and from December, 2020). You can see my choices for each of the past thirteen year
KEEP UP/ CATCH UP WITH DIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG A site to discuss better education for all #REDFORED #tbats #CANCELTHETEST
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 Biden Chooses Ex-Obama Official for Key Position in Department of Education 25 by dianeravitch / 52min During the Obama administration, Roberto Rodriguez was the White House advisor on education. He vigorously supported the Race to the Top progra

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