We Need to Focus on Robust Remote Learning Instead of Re-opening

“We should be spending this summer figuring out a better way to deliver remote learning while corporations and communities figure out how they can help with the childcare crisis. Instead, teachers are spending the summer trying to rewrite curriculum for 3 different schedules (in person, hybrid, and remote) all while they know that stepping into …

States Need to Plan Now to Forego Standardized Testing in 2020-21

“With coronavirus threat already hanging over the 2020-21 school year, the time to cancel the testing is now. Now. Before the 2020-21 school year is scheduled to begin. Instead, put those resources (time, energy, and money, millions and millions of dollars in money) in reserve as a proactive measure for facing COVID-19 in 2020-21.” https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/states-need-to-plan-now-to-forego-standardized-testing-in-2020-21/?fbclid=IwAR367cSR-_a1CGRu8Wc4vGSCS8-zAlk_lMMb29Md8fkDX5T5r0nSSKi9khY

The Key To Smarter Kids: Talking To Them The Right Way

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The Key To Smarter Kids: Talking To Them The Right Way Studies show that parents who check homework, attend school meetings, discuss school activities, and read to their children have a more powerful influence on their child’s achievement than anything that schools can do.  Conversations within the home are important in developing learning readiness as …

Study: Poor children are now the majority in American public schools in South, West

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Study:  Poor children are now the majority in American public schools in South, West “We have an education system that continues to assume that most of our students are middle class and have independent resources outside the schools in order to support their education, Suitts said.  The trends and facts belie that assumption. We can’t …