Chad Marlow, Those “Free” Remote Learning Apps Have a High Cost: Your Student’s Privacy Educator Toolkit for Student and Teacher Privacy Parent Toolkit for Student Privacy Cheri Kiesecker on how to check the settings for your child’s Google classroom/Gsuite account...
The Council of School Supervisors and Administrators website Among the issues we discussed: Mayor de Blasio's delay in closing schools ...despite the advice of many scientists NYC Department of Education (DOE) cancellation of Zoom amid serious privacy concerns The NY state and NYC decision to eliminate school spring break DOE's refusal to release educator and school staff health and mortality data amid the Coronavirus pandemic...
AFT links: Randi Weingarten’s essay, On how teachers and students should cap this unprecedented school year Share My Lesson with teacher resources. Colorín Colorado ! A bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners Privacy links: The Educator Toolkit for Student and Teacher Privacy – written by the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy and Badass Teachers Association (with support from the AFT ) The ACLU recommendations on what should be demanded of ed tech companies at t...
Akil Bello's blog - akilbello.com FairTest - the National Center for Fair & Open Testing NYC schools that skip standardized tests have higher graduation rates NY state tests suspended for remainder of school year Talking pineapple question on state exam stumps... everyone! As high school exit exams fall out of favor in Washington and New Jersey, New York is increasingly an outlier...
Alliance for Quality Education Emily James, Huffington Post, " I'm a Teacher, and it Feels Like my City Doesn't Care About My Life ." Advice to parents from the Parent Coalition for Student Privacy about how to maximize student privacy and minimize screen time in the midst of the coronavirus crisis Audrey Watters blog, Hack Education...
Let the Children Play - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/let-the-children-play-9780190930967?cc=us&lang=en&# Long Island Opt Out - https://www.facebook.com/groups/Longislandoptout/ NYSAPE - https://nysape.org/
CBOs for Equity - www.cboequity.org/ Jamaal Bowman's campaign website - www.bowmanforcongress.com/
Arthur Goldstein's blog - http://nyceducator.com/ Bronx Educators United for Justice - https://www.facebook.com/groups/BronxEducatorsUnited4Justice/
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/let-the-children-play-9780190930967?cc=us&lang=en& https://www.finlandcenter.org/new-page https://www.nysape.org
Network for Public Education: https://networkforpubliceducation.org ECE Policyworks: https://ecepolicyworks.com Defending the Early Years: https://dey.org
Illinois Families for Public School: https://www.ilfps.org/ Links to articles on the federal class action lawsuit: https://www.studentprivacymatters.org/federal-class-action-lawsuit-filed-vs-college-boards-predatory-practices/ https://loevy-content-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/12/1.-Complaint.pdf...
Network for Public Education report: Still Asleep at the Wheel NPE Action Conference Education Voters, PA Curmudegation Blog
NPE Report: https://networkforpubliceducation.org/stillasleepatthewheel/ Red State Revolt by Eric Blanc: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2955-red-state-revolt
Diane Ravitch's new book, Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization. Network for Public Education and NPE Action . Diane Ravitch's blog .
Leonie Haimson speaks with Naftuli Moster, founder of Young Advocates for Fair Education (YAFFED), about his five - year campaign, in the courts and in the political arena, to ensure that Ultra Orthodox Yeshivas comply with the law and that their students receive a minimally adequate education.
Jessica Levin of the Education Law Center and Katherine Dunn of the Southern Poverty Law Center talk to Carol Burris about their new organizational joint effort to inform the public about school voucher programs: Public Funds Public Schools. Burris discusses how vouchers are part of the effort of Secretary of Education Betsy De Vos's push to transform public education to a privatized system. https://pfps.org https://networkforpubliceducation.org...
Catch up on this week's episode where Leonie Haimson talked with NYC Council Member,Mark Treyger, chair of the Education Committee on what we learned from yesterday's Council hearings on excessive high-stakes testing in NYC schools. Then we were joined by Christopher Werth, whose ground breaking WNYC investigations on lead contamination in NYC schools helped lead to a new round of testing and remediation by the NYC Department of Education. Originally aired on WBAI Free Speech Radio 99.5 FM on Se...
Follow these links to learn more - Education Law Center: https://edlawcenter.org/ Class Size Lawsuit: https://www.classsizematters.org/we-filed-an-appeal-in-our-class-size-lawsuit-to-require-nyc-department-of-education-to-lower-class-size-in-all-grades/ Senator John Liu: https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/john-c-liu...
More on the proposal of NY State education department to allow for the selling of student data and its use for marketing purposes here . Here's a sample message if you'd like to provide a comment to the State about this proposal, with a deadline for comment of Sept. 16. Here's the copy of the report of the School Diversity Advisory Committee ....
