NANCY BAILEYl De-professionalizing Public Schools During Covid-19: The Problem with Bill Gates’s Projects

De-professionalizing Public Schools During Covid-19: The Problem with Bill Gates’s Projects

De-professionalizing Public Schools During Covid-19: The Problem with Bill Gates’s Projects

Many fear that the Gates Foundation is using this pandemic to end public education once and for all. De-professionalizing schools is an excellent way to do it. Covid-19 has made it easier for venture philanthropists to de-professionalize public education.

Great public schools require staffing with professionals who attend real universities and study the profession they practice. Public schools are not charities. They must not rely on young people who look at temporarily serving schools like joining the Peace Corps.

During this pandemic, it’s not a good move for schools to use online novices to replace professionals, but this is becoming a worrisome trend.

Bill Gates argues that high school students need college and career advisement during this difficult time. To his and his foundation’s credit, they’ve provided students with college scholarships. But his foundation is not supportive of public education, as most know.

Mr. Gates is now using the college message to fund nonprofits that will provide an CONTINUE READING: De-professionalizing Public Schools During Covid-19: The Problem with Bill Gates’s Projects

Education Matters: Something doesn't add up CARES edition

Education Matters: Something doesn't add up CARES edition

Something doesn't add up CARES edition

So the CARES act was designed to help schools set up and be safe during the Pandemic.

Detroit a school system about 2/3rds our size received 85 million.

I know we spent 4 million on screens, 200k on masks and I am sure that the bottle of hand sanitizer I received wasn't free but according to my calculations and I am no math major we are still a long way from 85 million.

By June 30th we had only spent 10 million dollars.

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2020/06/22/duval-school-district-has-spent-over-10-million-in-response-to-covid-19/

Still a long way from CONTINUE READING: Education Matters: Something doesn't add up CARES edition

With A Brooklyn Accent: I Know You: My Short Portrait of Trump Supporters

With A Brooklyn Accent: I Know You: My Short Portrait of Trump Supporters

I Know You: My Short Portrait of Trump Supporters

I know you. You can't watch sports on television without feeling enraged, whether it is from athletes taking a knee during the national anthem, the proliferation of Black Lives Matter shirts and signs at sports events, or the Modelo Beer ads praising the heroism of Latino immigrants. You can't even turn on ESPN anymore because of all the talk about racial oppression and social justice, Your children's schools are becoming places where white kids are the minority. You worry about their safety, and about the rising tax bill you have to pay for extra services for recent immigrants. You look at the Democratic ticket and think it is a set up to make a Black Woman President some time in the next five years, and feel the clock is ticking for white people in the United States. You look at the thousands of Black Lives Matter protests around the country, some of them leading to disorder and fear the country is descending into anarchy The only time you feel good about the country is when you see Donald Trump speaking to you on television, or read his tweets. And you will do anything in your power to make sure he stays president, because everywhere you look, you see threats to your family and your children's future.

With A Brooklyn Accent: I Know You: My Short Portrait of Trump Supporters

Quality vs Quantity: Distance Learning in SCUSD - Sacramento City Teachers Association

Quality vs Quantity: Distance Learning in SCUSD - Sacramento City Teachers Association

QUALITY VS QUANTITY: DISTANCE LEARNING IN SCUSD

To download a pdf of this comparison in English, click here.

To download a pdf of this comparison in Spanish, click here.

To view SCTA’s SmartStart Proposal, click here.

To view SCTA’s Elementary Daily Schedules, click here.

To view SCTA’s Secondary Daily Schedules, click here.

Quality vs Quantity: Distance Learning in SCUSD - Sacramento City Teachers Association

Betsy DeVos: Still Hoping to Divert CARES Act $$ to Private Schools | deutsch29

Betsy DeVos: Still Hoping to Divert CARES Act $$ to Private Schools | deutsch29

Betsy DeVos: Still Hoping to Divert CARES Act $$ to Private Schools

US ed sec Betsy DeVos’ first love is private school choice, and her second love is trying to slice off funding intendend for public education in favor of her first love.

Keep that in mind as you read.

On August 28, 2020, US ed sec Betsy DeVos did an interview with the Wharton Business Daily. Only 90 seconds of the interview is available for listening free of charge, which Wharton introduces thus:

During a special edition of SiriusXM Business Radio’s “Wharton Business Daily”, United States Secretary Of Education, Betsy DeVos, talks to Show Host, Dan Loney, about the positive changes to America’s education system that the COVID-19 pandemic will force.

Below are DeVos’ words in those 90 seconds, trascribed as follows:

We highly value education as a nation, and, again, I think the last six months have really revealed the fact that the system that most students have been a part of has been a very static, one-size-fits-all system that is unable in way too many cases to pivot, to be nimble and flexible and to adjust to new and different circumstances. And, I think this [the pandemic] is a good thing because I think its going to really force changes that should have happened many years ago, and most of that’s going to happen when families themselves are empowered to make those choices and those changes and those decisions.

And I think about a really important bill that’s been introduced now in both houses of Congress, called “School Choice Now,” which would help families who are more vulnerable and don’t have the resources that many better-off families have had to go and make these decisions on what’s best for their child. This would empower many other families to be able to do CONTINUE READING: Betsy DeVos: Still Hoping to Divert CARES Act $$ to Private Schools | deutsch29

A VERY BUSY DAY 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

A VERY BUSY DAY

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The latest news and resources in education since 2007

 

 

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Do You Want To Write In Ed Week About Your Teaching Experience This Year?

by Larry Ferlazzo / 1h

As you may know, my Education Week column is set up so readers send in questions to me, and then I invite guests to contribution 400- or 500-word responses, as well as printing shorter reader comments. I know a lot of educators, and, in fact, many have already contributed responses to questions for the fall. However, there are a far greater number of talented educators I do not know. I’m adding s

“Q&A Collections: Teacher Leadership”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 10h

Q&A Collections: Teacher Leadership is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. All Classroom Q&A posts on Relationships in Schools (from the past nine years!) are described and linked to in this compilation post. Here’s an excerpt from one of them:

This Week’s “Round-Up” Of Useful Posts & Articles On Ed Policy Issues

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in THE BEST ARTICLES, VIDEOS & POSTS ON EDUCATION POLICY IN 2019 – PART TWO ): The 52nd Annual PDK Poll on education was released. It was conducted pre-COVID and prior to George Floyd’s murder, so I think the responses may have to be taken with a grain of salt. School Choice Was the Main Poli

Video Tutorials On Splitting Your Screen On A Chromebook

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

viarami / Pixabay Knowing how to split a screen on Chromebooks is an important skill for students to know. It can help students take notes on a presentation they are also watching but, for me, the most important reason is so they can see their classmates in breakout rooms when they are working on collaborative projects. I have a video from Kahoot at THE BEST VIDEO TUTORIALS ON TEACHING REMOTELY –

Around The Web In ESL/EFL/ELL

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

BiljaST / Pixabay Six years ago I began this regular feature where I share a few posts and resources from around the Web related to ESL/EFL or to language in general that have caught my attention. You might also be interested in THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART ONE and THE BEST RESOURCES, ARTICLES & BLOG POSTS FOR TEACHERS OF ELLS IN 2019 – PART TWO. A

Sunday’s Five Must-Read & Must-Watch Videos About School Reopening

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

geralt / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : California issues new guidance to reopen schools. What does this mean for your child? is from The Sacramento Bee. Why the breakdown of stimulus talks is doubly painful for schools: no money and added uncertainty is from Chalkbeat. How Many Coronavirus Cases Are Happening In Schools? This

New Crash Course Video: “What History Was, Is, and Will Be”

by Larry Ferlazzo / 11h

Here’s how the Crash Course site describes this video: At the end of our journey through modern European history, we’re taking an episode to look back at how the practice of history developed and what the aim and goals and purpose of history have been. We’ll also take time to consider how we should approach history research and writing going forward. Of course, since it’s part of their European H

Zoom Announces Feature Coming Next Month To Allow Student Choice Of Breakout Rooms

by Larry Ferlazzo / 19h

Alexandra_Koch / Pixabay Anyone who has used Zoom knows that the breakout rooms feature is gold. One of their shortcomings, however, is that they don’t allow easy student choice for which rooms they get to enter. A relatively popular workaround to that used by many has students “rena

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