Here are some recent useful posts and articles on educational policy issues (You might also be interested in seeing all my “Best” lists related to education policy here):
Lawsuit asks if California schools hurt low-income kids during COVID https://t.co/L3eTw5P7JA
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 18, 2023
New: I tried to adjudicate the various claims and counterclaims about the “Mississippi miracle.” https://t.co/m5PAz676SC
— Matt Barnum (@matt_barnum) July 18, 2023
The whole “we keep spending more money in K-12 and don’t see changes” argument is exhaustingly disingenuous. PK-12 spending has hovered around the same percentage of GPD (3-4%) for over 50 years and it’s currently the lowest (3.44%) it’s been since 1989.
— Jess Gartner (@jessgartner) July 18, 2023
Anonymous district leaders making teachers scapegoats instead of taking responsibility themselves is just the kind of inspirational modeling we need to see https://t.co/HyUYjxMrbc
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 19, 2023
How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos Across the Country is from ProPublica.
So here’s my pitch: I think everyone who cares about schools and school reform should read this origin story (coming soon, 2024).
Here’s why:https://t.co/oDid1IVA65 pic.twitter.com/MlROHyReu2
— Adam Laats (@AdamLaats) July 19, 2023
Ron DeSantis has required Florida schools to teach that slavery was beneficial to enslaved people. https://t.co/IDUaMfum3N pic.twitter.com/pDFQVxysuJ
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) July 19, 2023
Florida Board of Education approves new Black history standards that critics call ‘a big step backward’ https://t.co/ZpjLbquU80
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 20, 2023
Conservatives are changing K-12 education, and one Christian college is at the center https://t.co/Wa2PGxsBkn via @nbcnews
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 20, 2023
California schools chief Tony Thurmond booted from school board meeting on transgender rulehttps://t.co/d1fKEoMVGp pic.twitter.com/Xd781qsgOa
— Sawsan Morrar (@sawsan24) July 21, 2023
Or, many teachers in Feb., 2020 compared to many teachers in June, 2021 https://t.co/7OK8nHgA7w
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 21, 2023
I’m adding this tweet to The Best Resources On Grading Practices:
In this piece from the @PittsburghPG, Glenn Altschuler and @dwippman offer a thoughtful read of my new book with @ehutt1: https://t.co/1t3qUd814Z
— Jack Schneider (@Edu_Historian) July 21, 2023
After Florida rejected an AP African American Studies class, demand soared. The College Board will offer it in 800 high schools across the country this year.
By @aliaemily and myself for @USATODAY https://t.co/7xF4SpEElw
— Ana Goñi-Lessan (@goni_lessan) July 21, 2023
DeSantis Faces Swell of Criticism Over Florida’s New Standards for Black History is from The NY Times.
To suggest that enslaved people somehow benefited from slavery is not only misleading, it is false. This is revisionist history. pic.twitter.com/2j0sPWP5O8
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 21, 2023
Temecula Valley Unified reverses course and adopts controversial social studies curriculum https://t.co/bNxI0PqeCJ via @edsource @jfenster
— diana lambert (@dianalambert) July 22, 2023
This insertion is not done to show the agency of enslaved people, but I know you know. Free people of all race developed skills. There is a way of pointing out that the forced labor of enslaved people involved great and valuable skills without acting as if this was an upside.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 22, 2023
"Acts of violence perpetrated…by African Americans" Huh? —————New Florida standards teach that Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills https://t.co/D7tcLjQpyS via @nbcnews pic.twitter.com/RZubNpmTQj
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 22, 2023
Chattel slavery was not a jobs or apprenticeship program. It was a system of violently enforced stolen labor and a crime against humanity and the fact that enslaved people resisted, used their minds, had skills, lived and survived does not in one bit diminish the crime.
— Ida Bae Wells (@nhannahjones) July 22, 2023
DeSantis doubles down on claim that some Blacks benefited from slavery https://t.co/sR7OAqRm3d pic.twitter.com/REjhMRxVJi
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 22, 2023
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