Sunday, August 8, 2021

THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Sunday, August 8, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #TEACHtheTRUTH #CRT

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THE TOP BANANA
TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES


The Top Banana: Today's Education Headlines | Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/The-Top-Banana-Todays-Education-Headlines-730208504396249



The First Rule About The TFA Institute Is You Don’t Talk About The TFA Institute | Gary Rubinstein's Blog - https://wp.me/plDtP-4Vb via @garyrubinstein


Florida, School Vouchers, and “COVID Harassment” | deutsch29: Mercedes Schneider's Blog - https://wp.me/p36Q2R-6yp on @wordpressdotcom


Courtney Martin: Lessons in Choosing a School and the Stealth Racism of White Liberals | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-uyA via @dianeravitch


As Many As Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast | Blue Cereal Education - http://bluecerealeducation.com/node/1123


CURMUDGUCATION: FL: Bullying By Mask - http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2021/08/fl-bullying-by-mask.html


NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/ via @NewBlackMan


Fox News' attack on teachers part of a larger assault on democracy: AFT president - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism - https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-on-teachers-part-of-a-larger-on-democracy/


On the Aspen Concepts Fest, the Training Officer discusses inequality within the classroom, going again to highschool | DAILY COLORADO NEWS - https://dailycoloradonews.com/?p=23356


Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ on @Larryferlazzo


Kentucky: Brave Teacher-Legislator Condemns Vague CRT Proposed Law | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-uA5 via @dianeravitch


EdAction in Congress August 8, 2021 - Education Votes - https://educationvotes.nea.org/2021/08/08/edaction-in-congress-august-8-2021/


Big Education Ape: CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: Counting Down To School Edition (8/8) - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/catch-up-with-curmudgucation-icymi_8.html


More than 3,000 Louisiana children test positive for COVID-19 in just four days - https://www.wdsu.com/article/more-than-3000-louisiana-children-test-positive-for-covid-19-in-just-four-days/37246194 on @WDSU

The Unintended Effects of
the Common Core State Standards

A Virus Expert’s Advice for Safe Schools - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/05/well/family/school-safety-coronavirus-delta-variant.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur on @nytimes

Students Say Teach the Truth | Learning for Justice - https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/students-say-teach-the-truth via @learnforjustice

Opinion | Dominique Dawes: I applaud Simone Biles — and know the weight on her shoulders - The Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/08/01/dominique-dawes-simone-biles-olympics-mental-health/

Opinion | A Smarter Way to Make Decisions About Your Kids - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/31/opinion/sunday/deliberate-parenting.html on @nytimes

SocArXiv Papers | “A Personal Decision”: A Mixed-Methods Study of Parents’ Opposition to School-Based Public Health Initiatives in the Wake of COVID-19 - https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/rnf83/

NYC to expand student COVID-19 testing program to charter schools following legal battle https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-charter-schools-covid-testing-nyc-20210808-xeaqpyk5ejc4jc7f3q2isqn7va-story.html#ed=rss_www.nydailynews.com/arcio/rss/category/new-york/education/

WATCH: GOP senator schools Florida's Ron DeSantis on his handling of the COVID surge http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRawStory/~3/wrHx3cmp76c/

'I expect the worst': A Texas parent worries about sending her children back to school in person http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheRawStory/~3/BdNxgroTcrY/

'Functionally useless': California privacy law's big reveal falls short https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2021/08/05/functionally-useless-california-privacy-laws-big-reveal-falls-short-1389429

Cassidy splits with DeSantis on school mask mandates - POLITICO - https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/08/cassidy-desantis-covid-masks-schools-502775

Parents and students caught in political skirmishes over mask and vaccine mandates - CNNPolitics - https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/08/politics/republican-governors-mask-vaccines-mandates-schools/index.html

Lipstick on a pig - https://www.daytondailynews.com/ideas-voices/lipstick-on-a-pig/VLQ4DBSZEBCGJGG6TR2OSJ4PKI/ on @dayton-daily-news

On the Aspen Concepts Fest, the Training Officer discusses inequality within the classroom, going again to highschool https://dailycoloradonews.com/on-the-aspen-concepts-fest-the-training-officer-discusses-inequality-within-the-classroom-going-again-to-highschool/

State Of CA Sets-Up Website For Parents & Teachers To Make Safety Complaints, Then Ignores ALL of Them | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=119718 on @Larryferlazzo

Depressing Statistic Of The Day: One Million Disappeared Students | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=119730 on @Larryferlazzo

Criminal-Justice Reformers Chose the Wrong Slogan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAtlantic/~3/01TqYzbQtt0/


Big Education Ape: THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Saturday, August 7, 2021 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #TEACHtheTRUTH #CRT - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-top-banana-todays-education_7.html

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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/2021/08/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos.html



Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK Education Research Report - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-week-education-research-report.html




Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK WITH NEWBLACKMAN (IN EXILE) #BLM #BLACKLIVESMATTER - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-week-with-newblackman-in-exile-blm.html



Big Education Ape: SSPI TONY THURMOND: STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/sspi-tony-thurmond-stuff-this-week-from.html



Big Education Ape: TEACHER TOM THIS WEEK IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/teacher-tom-this-week-in-early.html



Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-weeks-wildness-dad-gone-wild.html


Big Education Ape: Network for Public Education Blog Post of the Day This Week #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/network-for-public-education-blog-post.html



Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK NEWS FROM DR. MIGUEL CARDONA AND THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2021/08/this-week-news-from-dr-miguel-cardona.html



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CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: Counting Down To School Edition (8/8)

CURMUDGUCATION: ICYMI: Counting Down To School Edition (8/8)



Counting Down To School Edition

Yes, the clock has started at our house. I'll be heading off to be a trombone consultant for an old friend/student's band camp starting tomorrow, and my wife's summer days are numbered. Here it comes, lurching towards us like a misaligned tractor with a flat tire and three bales of hay stuck in the wheel well. In the meantime, here are some reads from the week.

Dyslexia Industry Scores California Court Victory

Well, that's one way to commandeer a district's reading program--use the courts. Thomas Ultican has the story of the California district where students will now get an extra helping of DIBELS, among other things.

Students Say Teach The Truth

From Learning for Justice. An award winning teacher asked actual human students about the "crt" panic. I missed this a month ago, but it's still worth your attention.

"Public education sucks" is a weak argument for school choice

Yes, Robert Pondiscio is a choice fan through and through. But he's not wrong when he picks apart one argument choicers use to make their case.

A $5 million fine for classroom discussions on race?

Well, yes. That's what Tennessee has proposed, and now a Mom for Liberty is taking the new law out for a spin. From Eesha Pendharker at Education Week.

Texas teachers say GOP's new social studies law will hinder and entire generation

The Texas Tribune talked to some actual teachers about how Texas's new anti-race stuff law will diminish a generation's understanding of the country's history.

Innovation Invites Hucksters

This New York Times piece isn't writing about education, except it kind of is. Beware technology soaked in snake oil.

Machine Learning Sucks At Covid

Cory Doctorow takes a look at some AI tools, and he hits hard. I'm going to give you the lead because it's kind of awesome:

The worst part of machine learning snake-oil isn’t that it’s useless or harmful — it’s that ML-based statistical conclusions have the veneer of mathematics, the empirical facewash that makes otherwise suspect conclusions seem neutral, factual and scientific.


Completing this trio of pieces, a pair of law professors in the New York Times explain why AI is not the special magical soup it's sold as. And what Europe is doing about it.


As I've posted previously, Idaho has an education indoctrination task force, headed up by their ambitious Lt. Governor. Ed Week checks in to see how that's going (spoiler alert: very scarily).


There's innovation, and then there's innovation. Nancy Flanagan offers some thoughts about reimagining education. 


Steven Singer contemplates the measures that need to be on the table for the coming fall.





There’s New Data On Last Year’s Student Learning Loss. Let’s Not Draw The Wrong Conclusions. - https://www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2021/07/28/theres-new-data-on-last-years-student-learning-loss-lets-not-draw-the-wrong-conclusions/?sh=7afd752e5daf by @palan57 on @forbes


FL: Bullying By Mask
by Peter Greene / 18h
Florida (state motto: Death to public education!) has been leaping to capitalize on the current COVID disaster, as witnessed by this extremely on-point headline: Florida Will Pay for Parents to Move Kids Into New Schools if They Experience ‘COVID-19 Harassment’ That's a very apt way to characterize a voucher program--the state will pay you to pull your kid out of public schools. You may have been
Raging Against Reality, Crisis, and Education's Kobyashi Maru
by Peter Greene / 1d
So here comes yet more panicky news from NWEA , hollering that Learning Loss is consuming New Jersey. It is, in many ways, baloney. First, everyone keeps ignoring the loss of standardized test prep and practice that is a factor in test results, and second, the Learning Loss here is reported based on what NWEA imagines the scores on last years test would have been had students taken them. I'm a li
Should School Board Elections Be More Partisan
by Peter Greene / 3d
Aaron Churchill, the Ohio research director for the Fordham Institute, this morning wants to make the case for partisan school board elections . Lots of states have non- or bi-partisan school board elections. Ohio doesn't note a party affiliation. In Pennsylvania, candidates can cross file and run in both R and D primaries, and so are listed as both parties on the final ballot. Churchill notes th
NEA and AFT are wrong on vaccinations
by Peter Greene / 4d
Fred Klonsky has said this today , but I'm going to say it, too. The national teachers unions (and a few other unions as well) are wrong on vaccinations. Randi Weingarten has said it should be locally negotiated: "In order for everyone to feel safe and welcome in their workplaces, vaccinations must be negotiated between employers and workers, not coerced," Weingarten said in a statement. The NEA
Fear and Silence in the Classroom
by Peter Greene / 6d
It comes down to administrators. States have moved from passing vaguely-worded laws about That Race Stuff and on to the penalty phase. I don't know know exactly how well the anti-CRT crowd understands what they're doing, but it doesn't really matter. At this point, it is all about scaring administrators. Tennessee has emerged as a big player in the Stifle Teachers Olympics, and they've come up wi
ICYMI: August Already Edition (8/1)
by Peter Greene / 7d
Well, that was quick. But here we are, counting down to a new school year. In the meantime, here's some new reading from the week. Will fewer Black students come back to school this fall? Adam Laats in the Washington Post
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