I feel like retirement gave me a head start, but yes-- after a while, the days kind of blend together. Still, we have some reading from the week. Remember, share safely.
The Biggest Obstacle To Moving America's Public Schools Online
Susan Adams, my editor at Forbes, takes a look at some of the problems with just tossing school onto the interwebz.
Baghian and Vallas candidates for LA state ed chief job
The indispensable Mercedes Schneider shows us once again that there is no failure that some of these reformsters can't walk away from, their reputations and careers intact and rising. Why the hell would anyone hire Paul Vallas? It's a mystery.
Misreading the main idea about reading
God bless Paul Thomas for repeatedly wading back into the current iteration of the reading wars, and thank heavens he's willing to add his expertise to the conversation.
What do we need to teach now?
A reminder from Deborah Cohan at Inside Higher Ed that we shouldn't get so distracted by the challenging how of the current situation that we lose sight of the what.
Where left and right agree on civics education.
From Education Next, a fairly well-balanced look at where the left and the right do and don't disagree when it comes to civics education.
Physical distance, social collective mourning
A personal dispatch from the JLV in NYC, where pandemic death has already hit the education community in the gut.
Online education is not winning over college students
One of the seventy-gabillion notes this week that some folks do not love the computer fed education life. From Hechinger Report.
Online Privacy Concerns
From EdWeek, a compendium of the many privacy concerns being raised as everyone rushes hook students to screens.
How about a national teacher plan?
Nancy Flanagan and friends with some important thoughts about this crisis-forged moment of opportunity. If we could rebuild from scratch, what would we build...?
Real learning in a virtual classroom is difficult
Chris Lee, writing for Ars Technica, opens with a quote from his wife, a high school English teacher: "Remote teaching sucks. It's yucky, and it's not the future of education." He ends with a quote from one of his kidfs-- "I fucking hate it." In between some pretty thoughtful stuff about why this is not the future.
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