Build and Support

Andy Hargreaves: What to Do and What Not to Do When You Are Teaching Kids at Home

A Wise Superintendent Offers Counsel for Our Times

Michigan: Federal Appeals Court Rules that Students in Detroit Have a Fundamental Right to Literacy

Bob Greenberg: Prominent Educators Explain Why Their Teachers Made a Difference for Them

Carl Cohn: Teachers Are the Foundation for Superintendents’ Success Plus Some Memories of San Diego

The Pandemic Reminds Us of the Value of Public Schools

Boston Globe: Parents Are Frustrated by Trying to School Their Children at Home

Wendy Lecker: What We Learned About Public Schools During the Pandemic

Michael Hynes: A New Vision for Education After the Pandemic

An End to Schooling as We Know It? To Grocery Stores? To Concerts? To Live Plays? To Dances? To Offices?

http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2020/04/as-schools-tackle-coronavirus-pause.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FORjvzd+%28CURMUDGUCATION%29

After the Pandemic: My Hopes for the Future of Schooling

Peter Greene: What Should We Measure When School Re-Opens?

Valerie Strauss: Parents Learn to Respect Teachers Now That Children Are Home

Teachers and Principals in Oakland Give More to Neediest than Billionaires

John Merrow Proves That the Public Admires and Respects Teachers

Why America’s Schools Should Stay Open This Summer (Andrew Rotherham)

How Did America’s Schools Cope with Spanish Flu vs. Coronavirus?

Reading https://www.corelearn.com/infographic-science-of-reading/

http://russonreading.blogspot.com/2020/04/john-steinbeck-ray-bradbury-and-power.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RussOnReading+%28Russ+on+Reading%29

Why teach literature. http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2020/04/why-teach-literature-whole-collection.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FORjvzd+%28CURMUDGUCATION%29  

History https://dianeravitch.net/2020/04/05/joy-hakim-online-lessons-by-a-storyteller/

Science https://dianeravitch.net/2020/03/31/vicki-cobb-why-trust-science/ and https://dianeravitch.net/2020/04/25/vicki-cobb-why-does-science-matter/

Why Are Lecturing and Questioning Still Around?

Special Issue: Moving Teacher Evaluation Forward

Randi Has a Good Idea for the End of the School Year

Johann Neem: On Unbecoming American

An Open Letter to Joe Biden, by Diane Ravitch and Carol Burris

Charter, Voucher, and Privatization Issues

Jeff Bryant: The Pandemic May Blunt the Drive for High-Stakes Testing and Privatization

Gene Glass: New Study Finds That Charter Schools Receive More Funding Than Public Schools

COVID Stimulus Funds for Private School Vouchers?

David Berliner: How “Successful” Charter Schools Cull and Skim Students They Don’t Want

“The Coronavirus Just Might End School Privatization Nonsense”

Laura Chapman: What “Money Follows the Child” Really Means

Laura Chapman: School Choice, the Pandemic, and Federal Policy

John Thompson: Beware the Virtual Charter Scam!

Carol Burris: Charter Schools Ask for Federal Money Though They Suffered No Loss

http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2020/04/charter-schools-we-are-businesses.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FORjvzd+%28CURMUDGUCATION%29

Are Charter Schools Public or Private? Trying to Have It Both Ways When Federal Emergency Money? https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2020/04/10/24083/

Stephen Dyer: Charter Schools Admit They Are Not Public Schools

Outrage: Charters Pursue Federal Small Business Funds

World Bank Changes Policy on For-Profit Privatized Schools

For-Profit Colleges, Under Investigation, May Collect $1 Billion in Federal Bailout Money

Betsy DeVos Derides Our System of Public Schools but Today’s School Closures Show Why the System Matters https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/23827/

Arkansas https://dianeravitch.net/2020/03/28/little-rock-parents-and-activists-fight-against-sham-of-restoring-local-control/

Florida http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2020/04/floridas-troubled-cyber-school-launches.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FORjvzd+%28CURMUDGUCATION%29

New Jersey https://jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2020/04/can-nj-afford-to-continue-subsidizing.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FCqnJA+%28Jersey+Jazzman%29

Ohio https://dianeravitch.net/2020/03/27/stephen-dyer-ohio-legislature-continues-to-be-obsessed-by-vouchers/ and Ohio legislature allows voucher expansion in schools which already have vouchers. https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/23854/

Tennessee https://dianeravitch.net/2020/04/07/tennessee-parents-and-civil-rights-groups-sue-to-block-vouchers/

Texas https://dianeravitch.net/2020/04/25/texas-public-schools-outperform-charter-schools-2/

Texas https://dianeravitch.net/2020/04/25/texas-charter-schools-grow-rapidly-despite-inferior-performance-compared-to-public-schools/

Utah https://dianeravitch.net/2020/04/03/utah-governor-vetoes-voucher-proposal/

Reform Foibles

So-called reformers have argued that “fixing the schools” will “fix society.” Schneider shows that this is backwards https://dianeravitch.net/2020/04/17/jack-schneider-pandemic-lays-bare-the-gaping-inequities-in-our-society/

Richard Rothstein: Pandemic Reveals Dramatic Economic and Social Inequities

Peter Greene: Why Business Ideas Don’t Work in Education

Nancy Bailey: Stop the Talk about “Reinventing” and “Reimagining” Schools After the Pandemic Unless You Are a Parent or Teacher

http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2020/04/recovery-commission-targets-gutting-of.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FORjvzd+%28CURMUDGUCATION%29

Heritage Foundation’s “National Coronavirus Task Force” Recommends Universal Vouchers and Uncertified Teachers

How a Trump administration official is quietly exploiting the pandemic to advance her family business — and right-wing agenda

Trump and DeVos Target Dreamers by Denying Access to Coronavirus Relief Fund for College Students

Even Though Schools Are Closed, Advocates Must Keep on Pushing to End Dangerous School “Deformer” Policies https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2020/04/01/23931/

How to spot privatization schemes in the middle of a crisis

Chalkbeat: Big Education Philanthropists Are Missing in Action on Coronavirus Response

Coronavirus School Closures Will Force Us to Examine Failure of Standards-Based School Accountability https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2020/04/08/24035/

A Public School Evaluation System That Fails to Account for What We Value

http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2020/04/demonstrating-why-business-ideas-dont.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FORjvzd+%28CURMUDGUCATION%29

Tom Ultican: Billionaire Philanthropists Accelerate Attacks on Public Schools During Pandemic

Nancy Bailey: Beware the Vultures!

Watch This 5-Minute Video About the Nefarious Goal of EduBusiness

The “Magic Bullet” in School Reform

Tom Ultican: Two Books You Will Enjoy Reading

Hope and the History of School Reform

The stubborn myth of learning styles. https://www.educationnext.org/stubborn-myth-learning-styles-state-teacher-license-prep-materials-debunked-theory/  

Technology

https://www.edweek.org/ew/section/multimedia/the-k-12-educators-guide-to-safe-and-effective-videoconferencing.html?cmp=eml-enl-tl-news1&M=59454827&U=56558&UUID=963b3ee1b30e99b18f611b1fbc9d893e

John Richard Schrock: Distance Learning Is Inferior to Human Interaction

David Deming: Technology Is No Substitute for Real Teachers!

Pandemic exposes the limitations of on-line learning. https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2020/04/06/24012/

Pondiscio: Distance learning is not the new normal. https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/no-not-new-normal?utm_source=Fordham+Institute+Newsletters+%26+Announcements&utm_campaign=473d67c332-20200415+-+Education+Gadfly+Weekly+A%2FB&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5fa2df08a3-473d67c332-71867561&mc_cid=473d67c332&mc_eid=ebbe04a807

A Protest Against Distance Learning

Is Distance Learning the Wave of the Future?

Peter Greene: Why AI Will Not Drive Trucks or Replace Teachers

Students and teachers discuss on-line learning. https://webinar.mathspace.co/us/registration?id=4091800

LA Unified, teachers’ union reach agreement over distance learning guidelines

When Teaching and Parenting Collide: As Schools Shift Online, Many Educators Manage Two Roles (Matt Barnum)

The First Taste is Free: Ed Tech Follows Drug Dealer Sales Techniques with Schools During Coronavirus Crisis

Andrea Gabor: Online Learning Encounters Obstacles

Schools, the Coronavirus, and the Near Future (Part 1)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2020/03/23/the-biggest-obstacles-to-moving-americas-public-schools-online/#594beb9f10e4

Problems with online learning https://dianeravitch.net/2020/03/30/jan-resseger-is-smarter-than-me-this-post-proves-it/

http://russonreading.blogspot.com/2020/04/book-review-practical-guide-to-digital.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RussOnReading+%28Russ+on+Reading%29