#Schools

Chris Giles

ChrisGiles_

A thread on:Why we need an algorithm to help set A Level grades in 2021(After the past week, I'm honestly not being obtuse)1/ Yes, I understand that the choices made

Jeffrey Sachs

JeffreyASachs

New legislative session, new assault on academic freedom and campus free speech.In Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, and Mississippi, GOP reps have introduced bills that punish public schools and universities for teaching

KynarethNoBaka #LearnMMT

KynarethNoBaka

We need to abolish the idea that there should be a "Cost" of living.Living should be free:Universal Food Stamps and Clothing CreditsFree Public Housing OptionMedicare for AllFree Daycare through Post-GradFree

Moriah L. Stephens

CallMeMoprah

QUESTION: with distance learning, I don’t think we should ask students to be “on” for 6 hours a day. However, my students’ IEPs call for 360 minutes of daily instruction,

19thnews

19thnews

Republican lawmakers in at least five states have introduced legislation that threatens to cut funding to schools that share curriculum about the award-winning 1619 Project.It previews new battles in states

Lindsay Wiley

ProfLWiley

It looks like press outlets are picking up Fauci’s comments on MSNBC yesterday saying we won’t be able to “approach some form of normality” until fall 2021. Eg, this from

Tamara Cohen

tamcohen

A u-turn would remedy terrible injustices for some pupils, but creates other problems. Ofqual said teacher grades at A-Levels this year "implausibly high" eg 13.9% A* grades (7.7% in 2019)

Alex Washburne

Alex_Washburne

My friend saw a student athlete commit suicide last Friday because the student's primary goal in life was to become a professional athlete.COVID interventions may reduce COVID risks of elderly

Joseph Allen

j_g_allen

We're in the stretch of the pandemic that we all feared. Vaccines look good, and logistics will get ironed out soon (follow @juliettekayyem on this and stay on big picture)In

Axios

axios

HARD TRUTHS DEEP DIVE — Race and Education in AmericaEducation is viewed as America’s great equalizer. But our segregated past supports barriers to quality education today.https://www.axios.com/hard-truths-deep-dive-race-and-education-i

Dr. Betsy Wolf

betsyjwolf

@StanfordCEPA released a new dataset today to include additional years of student achievement data, spanning from 2007-08 through 2017-18, and the results for DC don’t track with all the talking

Prativa Baral

tivabaral

Spoke to @DebraArbecCBC tonight about the loosening of covid restrictions in #Quebec - way too early to be letting our guard down, esp w/ new variant we need to think

Heidi Drake FCCT

mrs_denglish

Dear EduTwitter, Can we go back to the part of lockdown where there was loads of lovely subject specific chat and CPD loveliness. And remember:1) it’s your timeline: curate it.

Erika Heidewald, Proud Autistic Bitch

erikaheidewald

the free speech and censorship “debate” right wingers claim to be engaging in is ridiculous, in bad faith, and built on false premises. despite anything they say, conservatives already have

Patti Bacchus

pattibacchus

1. Looks like @Rob_Fleming is choosing not to answer all the questions we posted here yesterday so I'll go ahead and share the back-to-school plan improvements that I think need

Colin Wright

SwipeWright

1/ I've talked about "The Genderbread Person" in other threads and in my most recent @Quillette essay, but another frequently used teaching aid in public schools is "The Gender Unicorn."

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