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It’s Saturday & We’re Still On Strike – District Actions Bring Us To Twilight Zone Territory | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=125745 on @Larryferlazzo
Kentucky: Charter Bill Rises from the Dead, Like a Zombie | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-vLk via @dianeravitch
Putin talks 'cancel culture' while leveling Ukrainian cities. - https://michaelklonsky.substack.com/p/putin-talks-cancel-culture-while?s=r
Florida: Charter School Leader Convicted of Embezzling Nearly $400,000 | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-vLi via @dianeravitch
Arizona: School Choice Allies Back Funding Overhaul to Benefit Charters, Hurt Public Schools | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-vLb via @dianeravitch
academic freedom isn't free – Writing and Activism by P.L. Thomas - https://wp.me/2GmBR via @plthomasEdD
Big Education Ape: CATCH UP WITH CURMUDGUCATION + ICYMI: Tax Edition (3/27) - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/catch-up-with-curmudgucation-icymi-tax.html
Sacramento Teacher Strike Latest: SEIU 1021 announced no deal was reached Saturday https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/district-agrees-meeting-seiu-officials/103-9af39de1-2416-4674-bba5-01e3b11c3ed5 via @ABC10 Opinion | If You Think Republicans Are Overplaying Schools, You Aren’t Paying Attention - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/opinion/democrats-public-education-culture-wars.html on @nytimes
NYC students' data compromised in hack of grading system - New York Daily News - https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-hack-illuminate-online-gradebook-compromised-personal-data-20220325-ahy3b3b3t5cjzajau63muqcniq-story.html via @nydailynews
Blog Posts Archive - Network For Public Education - https://networkforpubliceducation.org/best-posts/ on @Network4pubEd
Education Research Report: What Kids Are Reading: 2022 Edition, - http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2022/03/what-kids-are-reading-2022-edition.html
Is "CODA" the "Green Book" of films about deaf people? https://www.salon.com/2022/03/27/coda-deaf-green-book-disability-hollywood/
What my gay childhood in a "Don't Say Gay" landscape was really like https://www.salon.com/2022/03/26/what-my-gay-childhood-in-a-dont-say-gay-landscape-was-really-like/
New Report Shows That More Black and Latino Males Are Living In Multigenerational Households Than Ever Before https://www.theroot.com/new-report-shows-that-more-black-and-latino-males-are-l-1848708261Howard University Faculty Calls Off Strike After Reaching Tentative Agreement https://www.theroot.com/howard-university-faculty-calls-off-strike-after-reachi-1848708242
In defiance of Attorney General Ken Paxton, Austin ISD’s Pride Week marches on https://www.texastribune.org/2022/03/26/paxton-lgbtq-pride-austin-isd/Teachers across the country are demanding better pay and support https://www.vox.com/2022/3/26/22997406/minneapolis-teacher-strike-schools-activism
California sends millions of COVID-19 tests to schools for the return from spring break https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-26/california-sends-millions-of-covid-19-tests-to-schools-for-the-return-from-spring-breakLarry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007 - https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/ on @Larryferlazzo
It’s Oscar Night! Here’s A Collection Of All My Movie-Related “Best” Lists
© 2012 Rachel , Flickr | CC-BY-ND | via Wylio The Academy Awards are tonight, and I thought it would be a good time to bring together all of my movie-related “Best” lists: The Best Sites Offering Free Lesson Plans For Movies The Best Scenes From (& Spoofs Of) “It’s A Wonderful Life” The Best Places To Learn About (And View Video Clips Of) Teachers In The Movies The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows Fo
April 7th Marks The “International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda”
jorono / Pixabay The United Nation has declared April 7th to be the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda . You might be interested in The Best Sites To Learn About Genocide In Rwanda . You might also be interested in “Best” Lists Of The Week: Resources On Genocide & Weapons Of Mass Destruction .
A Look Back: 20 Sites For Beginning Readers
I’m continuing my “A Look Back” series by looking at past “Best” lists and updating them. dassel / Pixabay I originally posted The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers in 2008, and have been revising and updating it since that time. It includes sites like Raz-Kids , Story Place , Starfall , Unite For Literacy , and sixteen more. Check out the “Best” list for all of them, and let me know what I
More “Focus Questions” For Peer Mentors
Homegrounds / Pixabay I’ve previously posted HERE ARE GUIDELINES, REPORT FORMS, & “FOCUS QUESTIONS” FOR OUR PEER MENTORS . “Focus’ questions are the ones mentors are supposed to…focus on during that particular session with their mentee. Here are a few additional ones I’ve added since that post originally appeared: How is the pandemic affecting you and your family? How are you feeling ? What is th
It’s Saturday & We’re Still On Strike – District Actions Bring Us To Twilight Zone Territory
(Note: You can see my previous posts on our strike here ) Our strike has reach Twilight Episode territory. Here’s a report from our union which, as a member of the bargaining team I can attest is accurate (I don’t see anyway to actually link this report to the union source): The District’s behavior over the last week has been erratic. First, the District refused to bargain over the entire weekend
Teacher who raised concerns about strip searches put on leave by school district: report https://www.rawstory.com/strip-search-schools/
NewBlackMan (in Exile) - https://www.newblackmaninexile.net/ via @NewBlackMan
Edge of Sports: Tyrone “Muggsy” Bogues Is Beyond Belief
by Mark Anthony Neal / 11h
'On Edge of Sports with Dave Zirin , a conversation with NBA legend Muggsy Bogues and his co-author Jake Uitti about their new book, Muggsy: My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Small Ball . We talk to Muggsy about his life growing up in Baltimore, his near-death experience as a child, and what it was like to play in the ACC and NBA, dealing with doubters along the way.'
Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia: Rock ’n Soul
by Mark Anthony Neal / 12h
' Daryl Hall and John Oates : Their songs were earworms, their videos cheap and goofy. John Oates’s mustache and Daryl Hall’s mullet are relics of their time. And…for about five years, their crazy streak on the pop charts was comparable to Elvis, the Beatles and the Bee Gees. They were also more cutting-edge than you may realize, essentially inventing their own form of cross-racial new wave after
LARB Radio Hour: Danielle Lindemann's 'True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us'
by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d
' Danielle Lindemann joins LARB Radio Hour today to talk about her latest book, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us . Bouncing between the ideas of major thinkers in modern sociology, including Emile Durkheim, Michel Foucault, and others, the book explores how reality TV both reflects and reproduces the real-world social tensions, inequities and slippages around class, race, gender, sexuali
Creative Control: Patreon CEO Jack Conte on the Creative Middle Class
by Mark Anthony Neal / 1d
'As the cofounder and CEO of Patreon (and a creator himself), Jack Conte ’s whole mission has been helping creators make a stable living. Patreon allows creators to charge monthly or annual subscription fees for access to their content. And since the company started nine years ago, it’s paid out $3.5 billion to more than 250,000 creators. Patreon itself was recently valued at $4 billion, so clear
Attempts to ban books from public schools fall short https://nondoc.com/2022/03/27/attempts-ban-books-public-schools/ via @nondocmedia
The Minneapolis Teachers’ Strike Isn’t Over Until The Workers Decide It’s Over https://popularresistance.org/the-minneapolis-teachers-strike-isnt-over-until-the-workers-decide-its-over/We Must Stop Family Separation — And We Can Do It Now https://popularresistance.org/we-must-stop-family-separation-and-we-can-do-it-now/
Remembering The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire https://popularresistance.org/remembering-the-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-fire-and-the-women-who-fought-for-labor-reform/
Obama's former Education secretary is calling on Biden to cancel student debt
https://cnb.cx/3wHwnui
South Carolina Senate bills on education, juvenile justice reform | wltx.com - https://www.wltx.com/article/news/politics/south-carolina-senate-education-juvenile-justice-reform/101-651859e1-f38f-4c72-aba1-87a0e660b96f on wltx Campbell High students silently protest Board of Education, call for tighter discipline against racist incidents - Cobb County Courier - https://cobbcountycourier.com/?p=29959 via @CobbCourier Column: New data tool shows disparities in arts education across Oklahoma | Columnists | tulsaworld.com - https://tulsaworld.com/opinion/columnists/column-new-data-tool-shows-disparities-in-arts-education-across-oklahoma/article_37460714-a97f-11ec-9112-7b825da4bd98.html on @tulsaworld Gov. Justice signs Special Education Camera bills - https://www.wsaz.com/2022/03/25/gov-justice-signs-special-education-camera-bills/ via @WSAZnews
Public education falling into grips of election-year division | Elk River Star News | hometownsource.com - https://www.hometownsource.com/elk_river_star_news/public-education-falling-into-grips-of-election-year-division/article_de399822-acbf-11ec-878c-d7686adbafea.html on @hometownsource Clergy members preach action during 'Supporting Public Education' forum - Salisbury Post | Salisbury Post - https://www.salisburypost.com/?p=550144
Montana’s Long Road to Make Good on Indian Education for All | Education https://shar.es/aWV0fH
academic freedom isn't free – Writing and Activism by P.L. Thomas - https://wp.me/2GmBR via @plthomasEdD
IndoctriNation: Can We Avoid Our Dystopian Republican Future?
“I guess irony can be pretty ironic sometimes,” Commander Buck Murdock (William Shatner) muses in Airplane 2: The Sequel. I immediately thought of this iconic Shatner scene from the Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker film when I saw a brilliant and urgently serious post on Facebook from a former student of mine currently advocating for all […]
The Politics of Reading Proficiency (and Charter Schools)
It seems almost quaint now, except for the racism, but in 2009, Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted “You lie” at Barack Obama. Post-Obama, the issue of political lies intensified dramatically, however, with Donald Trump building his presidential campaign on an extreme practice of lies that was well outside the norm of the sorts of lies […]
Dear Legislators: Your Job Is Funding, Not Dictating, Education
Let’s start with a thought experiment. Your elected state legislators are confronted with a series of bills addressing crumbling bridges and roads in your state. After a period of typical partisan debate, a final bill is proposed that not only funds new bridge and road construction, but also dictates how those bridges and roads must […]
The “Science of Reading” Multiverse
Published in 1942 in The Elementary English Review, a flagship journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) that later became Language Arts, “Research in Language” is one of the most cited pieces by Lou LaBrant in my scholarship and public writing about education and literacy. LaBrant served as president of NCTE in […]
Recommended: John Oliver on CRT
As an educator spanning five decades and as an education scholar, I fully endorse the following coverage of the CRT debate as an exceptionally accurate and complex examination of this manufactured crisis: See Also Gag Orders, Loyalty Oaths, and the New McCarthyism Bully Politics and Political Theater in an Era of Racial Shift Curriculum as […]
Bully Politics and Political Theater in an Era of Racial Shift
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) recently bullied students about wearing masks as he prepared to give a press conference. DeSantis called wearing masks “Covid theater,” but it seems more likely his petulant behavior is his own political theater since DeSantis immediately turned the embarrassing behavior into a fundraising gimmick. That a sitting governor publicly and […]
Gag Orders, Loyalty Oaths, and the New McCarthyism
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,We, the people, must redeemThe land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. “Let America Be America Again,” Langston Hughes An avalanche of gag order bills are being proposed in South Carolina—H.4325, H.4343, H.4392, H.4605, and H.4799. While my home state
Big Education Ape: THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Saturday, March 26, 2022 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #StandWithUkraine️ - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-top-banana-todays-education_26.html
Big Education Ape: TOP POSTS THIS WEEK Saturday, March 26, 2022 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #TEACHtheTRUTH #CRT - https://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/top-posts-this-week-saturday-march-26.html
Big Education Ape: THE TOP BANANA: TODAY'S EDUCATION HEADLINES Friday, March 18, 2022 #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform #StandWithUkraine️ - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-top-banana-todays-education_18.html
Big Education Ape: KEEP UP/ CATCH UP WITH DIANE RAVITCH'S BLOG A site to discuss better education for all #REDFORED #tbats #edchat #K12 #learning #edleadership #edtech #engchat #literacy #edreform - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/keep-up-catch-up-with-diane-ravitchs_26.html
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/2022/03/this-week-in-education-larry-ferlazzos_26.html
Big Education Ape: THIS WEEK Education Research Report - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/this-week-education-research-report_26.html
Big Education Ape: SSPI TONY THURMOND: STUFF THIS WEEK FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - http://bigeducationape.blogspot.com/2022/03/sspi-tony-thurmond-stuff-this-week-from_26.html 
