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Sunday, September 11, 2022

ICYMI: Welcome My New Granddaughter Edition (9/11)

Yesterday my daughter and son-in-law welcomed their first daughter, my second granddaughter. So all in all, it's a good weekend. In the meantime, I've got a particularly good collection of worthwhile reading for you. And remember--sharing and boosting the stuff that connects with you is important. 

Let Teachers Fix this. They Know How

Cheryl Gibbs Binkley doesn't post at Third Millenium Teacher very often, but when she does, she makes it count. Her point is simple. If you're worried about "learning loss," teachers already know what to do. If ever there was a time to get out of the way and let teachers teach, this is it. 


While we're on the subject, here's a little quick realism from Larry Ferlazzo

Florida ranked No. 1 for "education freedom" — by right-wing group that wants to privatize it all

Kathryn Joyce reports for Salon on Heritage Foundation's new education freedom report card, and the state that came in first. Great piece. 


In a guest op-ed in The Oklahoman, Dan Vincent argues that the plague of woke schools isn't really a thing. 


Thoughtful and even-handed piece in the New York Times by Daniel Bergner, focusing on a small community in Michigan and its wrestling with issues of race. 


The 74 has one of the scarier stories out there. The surveillance state plus restrictive laws equals bad news for students. 

A Texas Eighth Grader Was Pulled From Class And Grilled About His Gender-Identity

Greg Abbott told the state to start treating trans youth cases like cases of child abuse, and they are by God doing it. This is a chilling story of what happened to one 13 year old boy. 


All you have to do is just check through every single book in your room for every single thing that some parent might object to. Super easy. Barely an inconvenience. Chalkbeat has the story.


Carol Burris guests at Valerie Strauss' Washington Post space, providing more detail and insight on the pandemic explosion in virtual charter biz-- and what that means for educating students and making money.


Dad Gone Wild, school, funding, and the reformers making a bundle.

As pandemic aid runs out, America is set to return to a broken school funding system

Matt Barnum looks at school funding and the problems set to re-emerge as the pandemic aid runs out. Some god breakdowns of the problems of poverty and schools.


Yes, it's Hillsdale. And it turns out they've had even more control of Florida schools than you thought. Mary Harris reports at Slate. 


One more damn thing to worry about. The nation's second largest school district had to postpone the first day of school because they were hacked. 


From a few months ago, but I only just encountered this cleveland.com piece from Benjamin Helton. What if we used vouchers for other things? 


In fact, he beat an incumbent to do it. Kids these days. An encouraging story from KTVB7.

The Grove City class of 1967 had a request for its 55th reunion: One more class with its 99-year-old science teacher, Homer Christie

Heck of a story, from just up the road. In 1960, high school science teacher Homer Christie started teaching a free, optional Saturday morning extra science class. He retired from teaching in 1986, but he kept teaching the class until four years ago--at age 95. Now he'll be a featured part of a class reunion. 

1 comment:

  1. Hair on fire over "learning loss" missed the point.

    For all the criticism regarding the fixed structures of the school day and the school year, teachers always understood why: they worked, at scale.

    The disruption of pandemic schooling was much more about
    the "loss" of the routines, habits, and decorum that made learning work.

    Fix that first, and the rest will fall back into place.

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