Sunday, April 18, 2021

THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Sunday, April 18, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #openonlywhensafe #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform

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TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES

Black Urban Crises and Push-Out “Engineered” with David Stovall | NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/2021/04/black-urban-crises-and-push-out.html

Flagship universities fail to enroll Black and Latino high school graduates from their state https://hechingerreport.org/flagship-universities-fail-to-enroll-black-and-latino-high-school-graduates-from-their-state/

Elite Universities Welcome More Diverse Freshman Class https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/17/us/minority-acceptance-ivy-league-cornell.html

A solution to the cycle of poverty? https://hechingerreport.org/a-solution-to-the-cycle-of-poverty/

LAUSD unequal reopening: Nearly full classrooms on Westside, emptier elsewhere http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/lanowblog/~3/4-tpXlZSePM/survey-shows-how-covid-school-reopenings-differ-across-la

They Call Us Bruce 123: They Call Us Raya and the Last Dragon http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/angryasianman/hMam/~3/jKdYd9BE_VU/they-call-us-bruce-123-they-call-us.html

Here’s What a Civilian Climate Corps Might Look Like http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/motherjones/main/~3/iWXpoU_eDQc/

Parents Speak Out As School Districts Continue To Get Buses Running Again For All Students – CBS Sacramento - https://cbsloc.al/3uRYqmF on /cbssacramento

Infographic: “Language Acquisition Milestones” | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=116946 on @Larryferlazzo

SEL Weekly Update | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=116948 on @Larryferlazzo

Intensive Parenting Is Bad for Parents' Social Lives - The Atlantic - https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/04/intensive-parenting-bad-parents-social-lives/618629/ on @theatlantic

Everyone getting pegged with a charter school audit - https://nondoc.com/?p=21855 by @https://twitter.com/thricesavage on @nondocmedia

A year ago, another | JD2718 - https://wp.me/pOjh-29E on @wordpressdotcom

Big Education Ape: CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: Taxes Are Done Edition (4/18) - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/catch-up-with-curmudgucation-icymi_18.html

Big Education Ape: Laura Chapman on Michael Fullan | Diane Ravitch's blog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/laura-chapman-on-michael-fullan-diane.html

Big Education Ape: The Biggest Loser – Grumpy Old Teacher - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-biggest-loser-grumpy-old-teacher.html

Big Education Ape: “Are You Popular?” An Educational Film from the 1940s | Diane Ravitch's blog - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/are-you-popular-educational-film-from.html

What's "Woke" And What's "Whack" About How Teachers Are Being Prepared? - Philly's 7th Ward

by Mike Simpson / 42min

WHAT’S “WOKE” AND WHAT’S “WHACK” ABOUT HOW TEACHERS ARE BEING PREPARED? Effective teachers can change and save lives , but being a great teacher is hard . The challenge is especially acute in our high-poverty, under-resourced public schools where teacher tenure is lowest . Black and brown students are twice as likely to attend one of these schools than their white peers. As nearly 80 percent of

EdAction in Congress April 18, 2021 - Education Votes

by Mike Simpson / 42min

EdAction in Congress April 18, 2021 Senate advances bill to address hate crimes targeting Asian-Americans The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act (S. 937) will soon come to the Senate floor following an overwhelming, bipartisan 92-6 vote in favor of advancing it. Introduced by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), the bill would strengthen federal efforts to address hate crimes targeting Asian-Americans in several way

Ed Notes Online: UFT Mayoral Endorsement: Sunday 7 PM Educators of NYC Zooms in on Endorsement Process; Monday, special Ex Bd and DA

by Mike Simpson / 42min

UFT Mayoral Endorsement: Sunday 7 PM Educators of NYC Zooms in on Endorsement Process; Monday, special Ex Bd and DA I wouldn't endorse any candidate who is for continuing mayoral control. But none of them want to give up that vast power over so much of the budget so I don't think it will every go away. Also the educational/industrial complex has a lot of money riding on continuing mayoral contro

SEIU sets strike dates in Sacramento City Unified School District for custodians, food service workers

by Mike Simpson / 42min

Union sets strike dates in Sacramento City Unified School District for custodians, food service workers The union representing school support staff contends it still has concerns about safety and affordable child care for its members SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The ongoing stalemate in labor negotiations between the Sacramento City Unified School District and the Service Employees International Union c

Angie Sullivan: In the Nevada Charter Industry, Conflicts of Interest Are Rampant | Diane Ravitch's blog

by Mike Simpson / 42min

Angie Sullivan: In the Nevada Charter Industry, Conflicts of Interest Are Rampant Angie Sullivan teaches first-grade students in a Title I school in Las Vegas. She writes regularly to every member of the legislature and to journalists to tell them what it is like from a teacher’s perspective. She wrote this missive: Shannon Bilbray-Axelrod should recuse herself from charter school legislation. I

Will the Teacher Union (UFT) “Select” the Next Mayor (and other electeds) in New York City? | Ed In The Apple

by Mike Simpson / 42min

Will the Teacher Union (UFT) “Select” the Next Mayor (and other electeds) in New York City? On June 22 registered Democratic voters will go to the polls to select the Democratic candidates (and probably the November victor) for Mayor, Comptroller, Boro Presidents, District Attorneys and 37 of the 51 member City Council; a sweeping change in the governance of New York City. You may be going the p

My New Band Is: The Indoctrinated Rich - My New Band Is

by Mike Simpson / 42min

My New Band Is: The Indoctrinated Rich On the Brearley dad, what indoctrination means in the context of education, and private schools that are segregation academies If Bari Weiss has a post- New York Times “beat”, it’s defending rich white private school parents from the horrors of racial awareness. And credit where credit is due, she seems to have become the go-to writer on that beat for the a

Let the Children Play – My Prescription for Covid “Learning Loss” | gadflyonthewallblog

by Mike Simpson / 42min

Let the Children Play – My Prescription for Covid “Learning Loss” Things are different in school these days. The classes are smaller. The kids are more subdued. The teachers are exhausted . But that’s life as we try to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic and somehow get back to normal. I come into the room every day and sit behind a glass barrier. My kids either stumble in from the hall wearing masks

NewBlackMan (in Exile) TODAY #BLM #BLACKLIVESMATTER

by Mike Simpson / 42min

NewBlackMan (in Exile) NewBlackMan (in Exile) TODAY Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/04/this-week-with-newblackman-in-exile-blm_17.html Invisible Blackness –The Notorious PhD: A Level Playing Field, an Interview with Todd Boyd by Mark Anthony Neal / 2h " Todd Boyd, aka "Notorious Ph.D." is a Professor of Cinema and Media Studies a

YESTERDAY

TOP POSTS THIS WEEK Saturday, April 17, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #openonlywhensafe #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform

by Mike Simpson / 19h

Big Education Ape TOP POSTS THIS WEEK 4/17/21 Biden promised to end federal funding of for-profit charter schools. A new report explains how they operate. - The Washington Post Huge cash influx pouring into Kansas City school board races | The Kansas City Star Secretary of Education Joins Senator Warren and Senator Schumer for Discussion With Student Loan Borrowers and Advocates + HBCU Capital Fi

THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Saturday, April 17, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #openonlywhensafe #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform

by Mike Simpson / 20h

Big Education Ape THE TOP BANANA TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Education Secretary Miguel Cardona and First Lady Jill Biden to Travel to Illinois | U.S. Department of Education - https://www.ed.gov/news/media-advisories/education-secretary-miguel-cardona-and-first-lady-jill-biden-travel-

Big Education Ape

Laura Chapman on Michael Fullan | Diane Ravitch's blog

Laura Chapman on Michael Fullan

I recently posted a long article by Michael Fullan that proposed a new paradigm for education reform. I found Fullan’s dismissal of the status quo persuasive, as well as his description of a forward-looking approach.

Laura Chapman, inveterate researcher and loyal reader, reviewed Fullan’s recent work and was disappointed with what she found:

If ever any paper needed close reading this is it, especially Fullan’s discussion of the 6C’s, 21st Century Skills, and vague references to some ancillary research in California and Australia.

I am working on learning more about at least one of Fullan’s California projects. Unfortunately there are no peer-reviewed summary of accomplishments.

Here is a link if you also want to see what assessment looked like in one Fullan project, a three-year $10 million effort to improve the performance of English Learners including long-term English Learners, funded by the California School Boards Association and several non-profits. https://michaelfullan.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/The-Coherence-Framework-in-Action.pdf

You will see that the main measures of accomplishment CONTINUE READING: Laura Chapman on Michael Fullan | Diane Ravitch's blog

The Biggest Loser – Grumpy Old Teacher

The Biggest Loser

Florida Politics, a media platform,* has a weekly feature whereby it names the biggest winners and losers of the week in Florida politics. This week, it named Richard Corcoran, Commissioner of Education and erstwhile-House Speaker who was known for always getting his way (is that code language for a bully?), as the week’s biggest loser for issuing a memo to school superintendents to suggest (go back and read the previous parentheses) that mandatory mask policies serve no purpose and should disappear when the next school year begins.

Florida Politics:

THE BIGGEST LOSER: RICHARD CORCORAN. COVID-19 cases are increasing in Florida (and many other places). The Florida Department of Health Tuesday reported 9,068 additional virus cases.

That’s the highest one-day increase since Feb. 5.

That makes the pronouncement by Education Commissioner RICHARD CORCORAN all the more bizarre.

IN A MEMO to public school district superintendents, Corcoran recommended they drop the mandatory mask requirements for the 2021-22 academic year.

Why?

Corcoran’s memo said, “they serve no remaining good at this point in our schools.”

It’s long been obvious to Florida educators that politicians like Richard Corcoran are ignorant about public schools, Florida’s school districts, and CONTINUE READING: The Biggest Loser – Grumpy Old Teacher

“Are You Popular?” An Educational Film from the 1940s | Diane Ravitch's blog

“Are You Popular?” An Educational Film from the 1940s

When you think of the late 1940s, do you think about President Truman?

Here is an educational film from 1947: “Are You Popular?” The lesson: Don’t park in cars with boys.

These short films were called “social guidance” films. They were shown to students in schools.

What's "Woke" And What's "Whack" About How Teachers Are Being Prepared? - Philly's 7th Ward

WHAT’S “WOKE” AND WHAT’S “WHACK” ABOUT HOW TEACHERS ARE BEING PREPARED?

Effective teachers can change and save lives, but being a great teacher is hard.

The challenge is especially acute in our high-poverty, under-resourced public schools where teacher tenure is lowest. Black and brown students are twice as likely to attend one of these schools than their white peers. As nearly 80 percent of teachers are white, our newest educators often find themselves in a very different cultural context for the first time.

The result is often a gross underestimation of Black and Brown students’ academic abilities, misunderstanding and an inability to cope with what teachers perceive as “problem behavior”. This “culture shock” and racial bias drives many teachers out of schools educating Black and brown children as they escape to lower-poverty, whiter schools.

Many white teachers are clearly not adequately prepared to teach Black and Brown students. Our students are paying the price for the failures of our teacher-preparation programs. Changes to these programs that result in better education for Black and brown students are long overdue.

The solution is threefold. Our teacher preparation programs must engender cultural fluency; equip teachers with the skills to actually teach Black and CONTINUE READING: What's "Woke" And What's "Whack" About How Teachers Are Being Prepared? - Philly's 7th Ward

EdAction in Congress April 18, 2021 - Education Votes

EdAction in Congress April 18, 2021

Senate advances bill to address hate crimes targeting Asian-Americans

The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act (S. 937) will soon come to the Senate floor following an overwhelming, bipartisan 92-6 vote in favor of advancing it. Introduced by Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), the bill would strengthen federal efforts to address hate crimes targeting Asian-Americans in several ways: designate a Department of Justice employee to expedite the review of COVID-19 hate crimes, provide guidance for state and local officials for online reporting of such crimes, and require the department to issue guidance to mitigate racially discriminatory language in describing the pandemic.

Stop AAPI Hate reported 3,795 incidents from March 19, 2020 to February 28, 2021. The organization estimates that these are only a fraction of the actual incidents that occurred, which included physical assault, verbal harassment, online harassment, and civil rights violations such as refusal of service and workplace discrimination. Elderly Asian Americans have been knocked to the ground and pummeled. Some citizens have been spat on. A woman in Marietta, Ga. was confronted in a pharmacy by someone who sprayed her with Lysol and yelled “You’re the infection! Go home! We don’t want you here!”

In our current climate, words can easily incite violent—even deadly—acts. Such xenophobia must be condemned, especially during this unprecedented public health crisis. We must stand together to affirm that these words and actions do not represent who we are. TAKE ACTION

Paycheck Fairness Act heads to the Senate

After passing the House by a vote of 217-210, the Paycheck Fairness Act of 2021 is heading for the Senate. To address the persistent gender pay gap in the United States, the bill would require employers to demonstrate that gender is not the reason they pay employees different wages, strengthen enforcement of equal pay laws, and put in place robust remedies for discrimination.

Women earn just 82 cents for every dollar White men earn—and the pay disparity is worse for Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous women. This gender gap exists across nearly all occupations, including female-dominated professions such as education. The Paycheck Fairness Act will help end these disparities and show our students that we believe in equal pay for equal work. TAKE ACTION

Tell Congress to repeal unfair Social Security penalties

More than 2.5 million people dedicated to public service, including many educators, have their Social Security benefits reduced—or lose them entirely—due to the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO).

The Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82), reintroduced in January of this year by Reps. Rodney Davis (R-IL) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), would fully repeal both the GPO and WEP; Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Susan Collins (R-ME) will introduce the bill in the Senate this week. The Public Servants Protection and Fairness Act (H.R. 2337), introduced by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richie Neal (D-MA) in April, starts to fix problems caused by the WEP—a step in the right direction toward full GPO/WEP repeal.

The WEP reduces the Social Security retirement, disability, spousal, or survivor benefits of people who work in jobs in which they pay Social Security taxes and jobs in which they do NOT pay Social Security taxes—for example, educators who take part-time or summer jobs to make ends meet. The GPO reduces the Social Security spousal or survivor benefits of people who get a government pension (federal, state or local) but did NOT pay Social Security taxes themselves.

TAKE ACTION:

Urge your representative in the House to support the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82) to fully repeal both the GPO and WEP.
Urge your representative in the House to support the Public Servants Protection and Fairness Act (H.R. 2337) to start fixing problems caused by the WEP.

Cheers and Jeers

92 senators voted to advance the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act.

Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) voted against advancing the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act.

EdAction in Congress April 18, 2021 - Education Votes

Sunday, April 18, 2021