SPECIAL EDITION PROTEST AND 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

SPECIAL EDITION PROTEST AND EDUCATION

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... 

The latest news and resources in education since 2007

TODAY

CBS News Video: “Authors Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi on how to become aware of privilege”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

I’m adding this new video to New & Revised: Resources To Help Us Predominantly White Teachers To Reflect On How Race Influences Our Work :

I’m Not Convinced That Student Learning Losses This Year Are Traumatic, But They Will Be Bad If We’re Online Next Year

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

Research Shows Students Falling Months Behind During Virus Disruptions is a new article by Dana Goldstein in The New York Times. The article cites various studies warning of dire learning losses this year from school closures. One of the studies is from McKinsey & Company, which has a truly awful track record when it comes to education studies. One of the others is based on an online learning pro

“Six Truths About Racism That White Teachers Must Know”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 2h

Six Truths About Racism That White Teachers Must Know is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Two educators challenge White teachers to confront “hard truths,” including recognizing the role of White privilege and acknowledging their own biases. Here are some excerpts:

YESTERDAY

The Best Resources Demonstrating The Wealth Gap Between African-Americans & Whites

by Larry Ferlazzo / 10h

aitoff / Pixabay There are many inequities between Blacks and Whites in the United States. One of them is the “wealth gap.” Here are some resources describing what it looks like (you might also be interested in The Best Resources About Wealth & Income Inequality): US black-white inequality in 6 stark charts is from CNN. The black-white economic divide is as wide as it was in 1968 is from The Wash

New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “A day in the life of an ancient Peruvian shaman”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 10h

LoggaWiggler / Pixabay I’m adding this latest TED-Ed lesson and video to the section on our World History class blog where we cover the Aztecs and Incas :

Powerful PBS NewsHour Video: “How the coronavirus crisis offers a glimpse of what poor, black communities ‘feel every day’”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 13h

You’ll want to watch this video from tonight’s PBS NewsHour – especially if you’re White. You can see the transcript here .

New NPR Video: “How The Pandemic Will Affect This Year’s Election”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 21h

AnnaliseArt / Pixabay I’m adding this new video from NPR to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION :

The Tiananmen Square Protests Were Put Down On This Day In 1989 – Here Are Related Resources

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

Chinese Army troops put down the Tiananmen Square protest on this day in 1989. You can find related resources at The Best Sites For Learning About Protests In History . Chinese army troops storm Tiananmen Square, this day in 1989. https://t.co/hDlRLbm6Ft pic.twitter.com/V3k43OyqhP — NYT Archives (@NYTArchives) June 4, 2017

‘Educators Must Realize That There Is No Neutral Position on Issues of Racial Justice’

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1d

is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Three educators offer lessons teachers can learn from the death of George Floyd, such as neutrality has no place in the struggle for racial justice and White educators must stop expecting their colleagues of color to do the “heavy lifting.” Here are some excerpts:

JUN 03

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007

An Enrollment Crisis Is Coming for School Districts - Voice of San Diego

An Enrollment Crisis Is Coming for School Districts - Voice of San Diego

An Enrollment Crisis Is Coming for School Districts
If even a small number parents choose not to send their kids back to traditional schools in the fall, it could trigger a massive funding crisis and sever the longtime link between neighborhoods and schools.

Deep down in their May 18 letter to lawmakers warning that they could not “in good conscience” return students to the classroom if the state follows through on proposed budget cuts, superintendents of the six largest school districts in the state also requested a change.

They asked lawmakers to “authorize school districts to earn average daily attendance using a three-year rolling average of ADA.”

Right now, schools are mostly funded using average daily attendance calculations. Each student carries with them a number. If they go to school, that school and school district gets their funding. Districts care deeply about getting kids into classes not only because of their commitment to learning, and their mission, but because funding doesn’t come if they don’t. If students go to charter schools, they take that funding with them and some of those charter schools aren’t part of the districts. Last year, we helped uncover one of the biggest fraudulent manipulations of this average daily attendance system in the state’s history.

So, in that letter, the districts were asking that the state protect them from what could happen to their funding not from the budget cuts but from the loss of students they may experience. It was a subtle acknowledgement of a real nightmare in the works for them.

An enrollment crisis is coming.

If even 5 percent or 10 percent of parents don’t send their kids to traditional schools this year, it would deliver a massive funding crisis for schools that have already been grappling with enrollment declines. The deadline to lay off teachers has already passed. It is difficult to imagine how they can rearrange and cut costs swiftly enough to absorb the change. Especially with increased costs to deal with the health crisis on the horizon.

But the enrollment crisis is coming.

The San Diego County Office of Education is advising districts to prepare for parents who are CONTINUE READING: An Enrollment Crisis Is Coming for School Districts - Voice of San Diego

Why California Kids Should Go on Strike - LA Progressive

Why California Kids Should Go on Strike - LA Progressive

Why California Kids Should Go on Strike

As COVID Collapses Budgets, It’s Up to Children to Save Their Schools

Dear California Kids,

Don’t let us adults destroy your futures! This time of “distance learning” and COVID-19 chaos is the opportunity of a generation—maybe a century—to fix what’s so very wrong with how California treats you. And right now, you have unprecedented power. I am begging you to use it.

Before COVID-19, California wasn’t doing well by its 9.1 million residents under age 18. Now in crisis, the state’s adults are conspiring without your input to make things even worse for you. By June’s end, your governor and legislature will likely pass a budget that cuts a record $15.1 billion from your schools, further hurts the economy, and guts other programs essential to your growth.

You may think that you can do nothing to stop this—after all, you are being ignored as politicians and powerful adult interests make decisions about your future. Even at your own schools, few of you are being asked for your suggestions about how to improve distance learning or how to make your own classrooms safe and productive for your return.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Right now, with schools closed because of the pandemic, California’s children and teens have more leverage than ever before.

This leverage comes from the fact that education can’t restart in California without your consent. If you kids act together, you have the power to keep the schools shut down. This applies to distance learning, which can’t work if you refuse to sign on to the internet, as well as to physical school reopenings, which won’t happen until you agree to walk back onto those campuses.

Your advantage is not just practical. It’s moral. School districts—having thrown you into hastily CONTINUE READING: Why California Kids Should Go on Strike - LA Progressive

Community Care: Grief Circle – Parenting for Liberation

Community Care: Grief Circle – Parenting for Liberation

Community Care: Grief Circle

Parenting for Liberation is honored to co-host a Grief Circle with Spiritual Alchemy.

“As Black parents in the Americas, we are no stranger to harm to our communities and the killing of our children at the hands of law enforcement or vigilantes. However, what has sustained us is our ability to gather in community to tell stories, share a meal and lean on one another spiritually, physically and emotionally during times of profound loss, grief, and mourning and for many there is a palpable absence of this during this time of COVID-19. 

As such, spaces like Wailing Circle are not only necessary, but critical for providing a place that is safe for community to gather. A space where our souls have permission to grieve in whatever form and manner that feels right. We need spaces for our deafening wail as we call the names of those who are sick, those who have died and those who have been killed. Space and time to grieve what has been lost. Space to lament dreams and expectations we have nurtured and to which we have given our life blood that we must now surrender. Our souls need. spaces where folks commit to lean in and not look away but allow for us to show up as our whole selves and our collective humanity, which allows for our pain to break them open in a new way. We need spaces to remind us of our collective humanity and the abundant possibility of what can be called forth in time like these.”

ML Daniel, Spiritual Alchemy

RSVP here.

Community Care: Grief Circle – Parenting for Liberation

All White People Must Confront How the System Only Works in Total Whiteness – radical eyes for equity

All White People Must Confront How the System Only Works in Total Whiteness – radical eyes for equity

All White People Must Confront How the System Only Works in Total Whiteness

I was born in 1961, after Brown v. Board but before the Civil Rights Act.

My childhood in the upstate of South Carolina included the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Robert Kennedy as well as vivid memories of my mother’s family living through the racial unrest in nearby Asheville, North Carolina and my uncle being shipped off to the Vietnam War.

My parents had been raised in the 1940s and 1950s throughout North and South Carolina; they were among the white Americans who disapproved of King, and I recall vividly my parents’ animosity for Muhammad Ali that sat next to their anger at the mainstream media for bringing down Richard Nixon.

I was born in 1961, but I was baptized and washed daily in whiteness.

I believed in whiteness even as I was conditioned never to see it because my accusatory gaze was trained on blackness, and any racial identity not white.

These were the lessons of my home, my community, my school, and nearly every moment of the media I was consuming through news or entertainment.

My history books, TV shows, movies, novels, and comic books were filled with white saviors—and all that was wrong with the world shaded in darkness, blackness.

By the time I entered college during the fall of Jimmy Carter and the rise of CONTINUE READING: All White People Must Confront How the System Only Works in Total Whiteness – radical eyes for equity