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TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES 

Teachers start getting coronavirus vaccines — but only in some places - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2021/01/03/teachers-coronavirus-vaccines/

Texas school sports moved indoors for the winter. So did the coronavirus. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/04/texas-high-school-sports-coronavirus-pandemic/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social via @TexasTribune

glen brown: 17 Posts from My Heart and Spirit - https://teacherpoetmusicianglenbrown.blogspot.com/2021/01/17-posts-from-my-heart-and-spirit.html

SEL Weekly Update | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=114547 on @Larryferlazzo

“I just want to find 11,780 votes.” Vote theft didn’t start with Trump. – Fred Klonsky - https://wp.me/p4C3g-q4V via @fklonsky

Education Research Report: Trauma at School: The Impacts of Shootings on Students - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/

Ruby Hamad on 'White Tears Brown Scars' | NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2021/01/ruby-hamad-on-white-tears-brown-scars.html

‘Break up the groupthink’: Democrats press Biden to diversify his tech picks https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/04/democrats-biden-diversify-tech-picks-453142

PROOF POINTS: Researchers pinpoint three elements of effective schools - The Hechinger Report - https://hechingerreport.org/?p=76317 by @jillbarshay on @hechingerreport

What it’s like to learn online from inside a homeless shelter https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/what-its-like-to-learn-online-from-inside-a-homeless-shelter/2021/01/03/b724ba0a-3ed9-11eb-8bc0-ae155bee4aff_story.html?tid=ss_tw

Ed Notes Online: Fred Smith with NEW YEAR Update - https://ednotesonline.blogspot.com/2021/01/fred-smith-with-new-year-update.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FDOJOw+%28Education+Notes+Online%29

Teachers on TV? Schools Try Creative Strategy to Narrow Digital Divide - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/technology/teachers-on-tv.html

Chicago’s School Dispute Intensifies - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/04/us/chicago-teachers-union-public-schools.html

Curmudgucation: No, There Really Doesn't Need to be a Big Spring Test in 2021 | National Education Policy Center - https://nepc.colorado.edu/node/10682 on @NEPCtweet

Judge: NM funding system for school building projects unconstitutional » Albuquerque Journal - https://www.abqjournal.com/1531037/court-decision-nm-capital-funding-system-unconstitutional.html#new_tab on @abqjournal

Ethnicity, gender, climate: How MN is changing the way it teaches social studies – Twin Cities - https://wp.me/p79gJ9-fSsT on @pioneerpress

Schools Rethink Covid Rules. ‘We’re Over-Quarantining Kids Like Crazy.’ - WSJ - https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-surge-schools-reopen-rethink-quarantines-11608247643#new_tab by @RWhelanWSJ on @WSJ

Chicago Public Schools named for slaveholders; CPS promises changes - Chicago Sun-Times - https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/12/30/22189499/cps-school-names-slaveholders-chicago-public-schools-maurice-swinney-john-marshall-agassiz-acero#new_tab

Court: Parents of child who killed himself can sue educators - https://apnews.com/article/bullying-lawsuits-cincinnati-60622a83cef1fc48a16614233f4fe79d#new_tab on @ap

Michigan Supreme Court: State can reimburse private schools - https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2020/12/28/michigan-supreme-court-state-can-reimburse-private-schools/4062193001/#new_tab via @freep

Free grocery store opens in Texas school district with high number of economically disadvantaged students - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/free-grocery-store-opens-texas-school-district-high-number-economically-n1252540#new_tab by NBCNews on @NBCNews

Chicago Teachers Union members won’t return to schools Monday - Chicago Tribune - https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-chicago-teachers-union-no-return-to-school-20210103-d23hjrgpcrhnrgi3oe7xan6jku-story.html#new_tab via @chicagotribune

New data show more San Diego Unified students are failing, receiving “in progress” grades - The San Diego Union-Tribune - https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/education/story/2021-01-02/new-data-show-more-san-diego-unified-students-are-failing-receiving-in-progress-grades#new_tab by @Kristen_Taketa on @sdut

Texas still blocked from taking over Houston’s school district, appeals court rules https://www.texastribune.org/2020/12/30/texas-houston-school-district-take-over/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social via @TexasTribune

Big Education Ape: Shawgi Tell: Charter Schools Have Fewer Nurses and More Inexperienced Teachers than Public Schools | Dissident Voice - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/shawgi-tell-charter-schools-have-fewer.html

Capitalism Is Your Daddy: “what sort of person to die as” – radical eyes for equity

by Mike Simpson / 7min

Capitalism Is Your Daddy: “what sort of person to die as” From “you are what you eat” to “when you have sex with someone, you are having sex with all of their sexual partners,” we seem obsessed with fear-mongering in order to shape how people behave, and thus, who people become. About fifty pages into Keiichiro Hirano’s A Man , the reader experiences the first hints of what becomes one motif of

Laura Chapman: McKinsey’s Education “Expert” | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 26min

Laura Chapman: McKinsey’s Education “Expert” A few days ago, I posted Nancy Bailey’s critique of McKinsey & Company’s report claiming that it’s time for schools to get tough on students. As Bailey points out, when I worked in the Department of Education, the White House was crawling with McKinsey consultants, smart young things who knew everything about education but were seldom old enough to ha

Soon-to-be Secretary Miguel Cardona, the Time is Now for an Education Stimulus | Schott Foundation for Public Education

by Mike Simpson / 26min

Soon-to-be Secretary Miguel Cardona, the Time is Now for an Education Stimulus Originally published in USA Today. Congratulations on your nomination to be U.S. education secretary, Miguel Cardona. You are poised to take this position at a critical point in American history. As you know well, for generations we have lived through a system of separate and unequal education. COVID-19 has greatly ex

The Debate About School Safety Is No Longer Relevant - The Atlantic

by Mike Simpson / 26min

The Debate About School Safety Is No Longer Relevant Even in places where schools want to reopen, too many teachers are sick or quarantining for classrooms to operate, and substitutes cannot fill the void. For months, the debate about whether to open schools has centered on one question: Are schools safe? The only trouble is, this hardly matters anymore. Except in the few remaining regions with

NANCY BAILEY: Guarded Hope and 7 Concerns for Public Education this New Year

by Mike Simpson / 26min

Guarded Hope and 7 Concerns for Public Education this New Year Guarded Hope and 7 Concerns for Public Education this New Year We have a new President and a new education secretary and hope for the future of public education. Hope doesn’t come easy because schools face what appear to be insurmountable difficulties due to Covid-19. Also, wealthy individuals and groups who want school privatization

Teacher Tom: "This is a Little Princess"

by Mike Simpson / 26min

"This is a Little Princess" She had chosen a Disney princess book for me to read to her, but we were mostly just talking our way through the pages. I was pretty certain she hadn't seen the movie, but she nevertheless seemed to know a lot about the characters and the story. I turned a page and she remarked, "That's a little Snow White." "Yes, but she's bigger than the dwarfs." "They're little too

Jake Jacobs: End the Tax Breaks for Charter Schools and the Uber-Rich | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 26min

Jake Jacobs: End the Tax Breaks for Charter Schools and the Uber-Rich Jake Jacobs is a middle school art teacher in New York. He is the national co-administrator of the BadAss Teachers Association, an organization of militant activist teachers. He writes: Joe Biden’s recent nomination of Miguel Cardona as a relatively lesser-known, less controversial selection for Secretary of Education was tell

Montana’s Senator Jon Tester Says Democrats Can Win in Red States By Prioritizing Public Education | janresseger

by Mike Simpson / 26min

Montana’s Senator Jon Tester Says Democrats Can Win in Red States By Prioritizing Public Education In mid-December, the NY Times ‘ Jonathan Martin interviewed Montana Senator Jon Tester about his new book, Grounded: A Senator’s Lessons on Winning Back Rural America . Tester, a Democrat and U.S. Senator in his third term, represents a deep red state. Tester tells Martin: “Democrats can really do

Choosing Democracy: Are Children Falling Behind?

by Mike Simpson / 26min

Are Children Falling Behind? What Shall We Do About the Children After the Pandemic Teresa Thayer Snyder December 12, 2020 Diane Ravitch's BLOG I sincerely plead with my colleagues, to surrender the artificial constructs that measure achievement and greet the children where they are, not where we think they “should be.” Students line up to have their temperature checked before entering PS 179 el

Schools Matter: Curriculum Associates, "Learning Loss," and Corporate Gain

by Mike Simpson / 26min

Curriculum Associates, "Learning Loss," and Corporate Gain Curriculum Associates (CA) started in a garage in 1969 with four employees, and for twenty years the company marketed supplementary basic curriculum materials to K-12 school systems. In 1989, the original head of the company, Frank Ferguson, saw the testing accountability writing on the wall, and he expanded the focus of the company into

COVID and Schools: The Data and Science Then and Now | Cloaking Inequity

by Mike Simpson / 26min

COVID AND SCHOOLS: THE DATA AND SCIENCE THEN AND NOW Early on in the pandemic the thinking was that masks were not necessary. In fact, there is a video circulating online that shows Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), saying “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.” Fauci’s remarks

CURMUDGUCATION: MO: GOP Rep Tells Teachers To Take A Hike

by Mike Simpson / 26min

MO: GOP Rep Tells Teachers To Take A Hike So here's a jolly exchange from Twitter on Saturday. That's Justin Hill , a Missouri GOP rep from the 108th district, showing his love and support for teachers in his state. He was a cop before running for office, so you'd think he'd know something about public service, but maybe not so much. He's had a few ideas to offer before. While the Missouri legis

A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

by Mike Simpson / 26min

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/2021/01/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos.html SEL Weekly Update by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h I’ve recently begun this weekly po

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Sunday, December 27, 2020 CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: So I Guess This Is A New Year Edition (1/3)

by Mike Simpson / 21h

CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: So I Guess This Is A New Year Edition (1/3) So I Guess This Is A New Year Edition I'm not sure I've ever felt less enamored of our habit of celebrating the passing of an arbitrary line in the sand that we drew ourselves, but it's not the most terrible human activity, either, so carry on. Also cross your fingers and say a prayer for everyone going back to school tomorrow. In

THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES #REDFORED #tbats #COVIDVACCINE #newyear #BestOf2020

by Mike Simpson / 21h

Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES COVID and Schools: The Data and Science Then and Now | Cloaking Inequity - https://wp.me/p2D92I-5Ln via @ProfessorJVH Teachers start 

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