THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Monday, January 18, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #COVIDVACCINE #Inauguration #BIDEN #HARRIS #MLKDAY #MLK #MARTINLUTHERKINGJR

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Biden weighs options for education secretary who would face early political pressure in school reopening bid - CNNPolitics - https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/19/politics/joe-biden-education-secretary-decision/index.html

Six Important New Resources For Learning About Martin Luther King, Jr. | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=114916 on @Larryferlazzo

Inauguration in Troubled Times: Looking Back and Looking Forward: Lincoln, FDR and Biden | Ed In The Apple - https://wp.me/p2zCG-2Q3 via @edintheapple

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=114899 on @Larryferlazzo

Access to college admissions tests — and lucrative scholarships — imperiled by the pandemic https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/18/sat-act-requirements-coronavirus-459797

Giving kids no autonomy at all has become a parenting norm — and the pandemic is worsening the trend https://www.salon.com/2021/01/17/giving-kids-no-autonomy-at-all-has-become-a-parenting-norm--and-the-pandemic-is-worsening-the-trend/

'I've Tried Everything': Pandemic Worsens Child Mental Health Crisis https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/01/18/953581851/ive-tried-everything-pandemic-has-cut-options-for-kids-with-mental-illness

¿Qué significa para las escuelas la nueva variante del coronavirus? https://www.nytimes.com/es/2021/01/18/espanol/que-significa-para-las-escuelas-la-nueva-variante-del-coronavirus.html

OPINION: HBCUs build women and men who are ready to lead the nation - https://hechingerreport.org/?p=76578 via @hechingerreport

Spring term delays: New wave of coronavirus uncertainty slams higher education https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/colleges-spring-semester-coronavirus/2021/01/16/0be39db6-55d9-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html?tid=ss_tw

Climate Crisis Must Be Taught In Schools, U.S. Education Experts Tell Biden https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/climate-crisis-must-be-taught-in-schools-u-s-education-experts-tell-biden/

Wendell Pierce On Parenting, The Pandemic And Reckoning With The Past | NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2021/01/wendell-pierce-on-parenting-pandemic.html

Beutner presses for L.A. schools to become COVID-19 vaccine centers https://news.yahoo.com/beutner-presses-l-schools-become-160012405.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr via @YahooNews

PROOF POINTS: Study of kindergarteners points to technology overuse - https://hechingerreport.org/?p=76567 by @jillbarshay on @hechingerreport

Education Matters: Europe says schools are vectors for spread. DCPS says we are wide open for business. - https://jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com/2021/01/europe-says-schools-are-vectors-for.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/iYxgC+(Education+Matters)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: The Drum Major Instinct | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-tdE via @dianeravitch

Former Flint Mayor Karen Weaver: It’s time for justice for Flint | Eclectablog - https://www.eclectablog.com/?p=72131

Big Education Ape: L.A. schools chief wants to launch California's largest teacher vaccine effort - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/la-schools-chief-wants-to-launch.html

Big Education Ape: Be True to Your School | Teacher in a strange land - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/be-true-to-your-school-teacher-in.html

Big Education Ape: A Word on the Special Session – Tennessee Education Report - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/a-word-on-special-session-tennessee.html

Big Education Ape: Whatever Happened to the National Teacher Corps? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/whatever-happened-to-national-teacher.html

Big Education Ape: MLK warned that colleges could produce ‘close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists’ - The Washington Post - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/mlk-warned-that-colleges-could-produce.html

Big Education Ape: Teacher Tom: Chaos or Community? - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/teacher-tom-chaos-or-community.html

Big Education Ape: NYC Educator: MLK and Making America Union Again - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/nyc-educator-mlk-and-making-america.html

Big Education Ape: WSJ: Europe Is Closing Down Schools for Fear of COVID Spread | Diane Ravitch's blog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/wsj-europe-is-closing-down-schools-for.html

Big Education Ape: Education Matters: Last week there were 172 student cases, 88 staff cases and nothing but crickets from the district. - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/education-matters-last-week-there-were.html

Big Education Ape: On This Holiday Honoring Dr. King, Consider the Plight of Children Today in Pennsylvania’s Chester Upland School District | janresseger - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/on-this-holiday-honoring-dr-king.html

Big Education Ape: Letter from a Teacher to the Incoming Secretary of Education | Real Learning CT - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/01/letter-from-teacher-to-incoming.html

CURMUDGUCATION: A Really Bad Anti-Public School Analogy

by Mike Simpson / 15min

A Really Bad Anti-Public School Analogy You know I love a good analogy. I spent four decades trying to help people understand one thing by connecting it to some other thing. So I love a good analogy. This is not a good analogy. Nick Freitas is an army vet and Virginia politician, who served in the house of delegates before making a couple of unsuccessful runs for the US Congress (both House and

Student: “I Appreciate You Disciplining Me.” | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog

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Student: “I Appreciate You Disciplining Me.” I expect my students to wear a school uniform shirt and an ID. It is my habit to check for these, and my students know so. Of course, that doesn’t mean they always comply. Last week, in one of my classes, I hit on a noncompliance bonanza of sorts. One had no school shirt. A second had no ID. A third had neither school shirt nor ID. So, out come the de

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

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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_16.html Must-Read NY Times Column On Miguel Cardona’s Experience As An ELL by Lar

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CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: Well, Nothing Blew Up This Week Edition (1/17)

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CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Well, Nothing Blew Up This Week Edition (1/17) Well, Nothing Blew Up This Week Edition Did we just get through a whole week without anything more than whingings based on the willful misunderstanding of the First Amendment and admittedly horrifying details from last week's insurrection? I feel like maybe we're having the equivalent of when someone screams in your ears and th

THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Sunday, January 17, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #REOPENSCHOOLSSAFELY #COVIDVACCINE #IMPEACHED #TWICE

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Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Children’s Screen Time Has Soared in the Pandemic, Alarming Parents and Researchers - The New York Times - 

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MLK warned that colleges could produce ‘close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists’ - The Washington Post

MLK warned that colleges could produce ‘close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists’ - The Washington Post

MLK: ‘If we are not careful, our colleges will produce … close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists’

Here, as I have published in recent years to mark the federal holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., are some of his prophetic writings related to the purpose of education and the U.S. government’s efforts toward educating its citizens.

Just read these excerpts:

— King attended Morehouse College, and this is an excerpt from “The Purpose of Education,” a piece he wrote in the February 1947 edition of the college’s student newspaper, the Maroon Tiger:

As I engage in the so-called “bull sessions” around and about the school, I too often find that most college men have a misconception of the purpose of education. Most of the “brethren” think that education should equip them with the proper instruments of exploitation so that they can forever trample over the masses. Still others think that education should furnish them with noble ends rather than means to an end.

It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life.

Education must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking. To think incisively and to think for one’s self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda.

At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

The late Eugene Talmadge, in my opinion, possessed one of the better minds of Georgia, or even America. Moreover, he CONTINUE READING: 

MLK warned that colleges could produce ‘close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists’ - The Washington Post

Teacher Tom: Chaos or Community?

Teacher Tom: Chaos or Community?

Chaos or Community?

And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. ~MLK

What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both. Now, when I say question the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated. ~MLK

And I say to you, I have also decided to stick to love. For I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love. ~MLK

On this Martin Luther King Day many of us will listen to snippets, perhaps all, of his great "I Have A Dream" speech, and we should, but civil rights was not the only cause this CONTINUE READING: Teacher Tom: Chaos or Community?