deft @postinspace

I used to blog about compulsory attendance & open-access schools, using Green Party values. postinspace.blogspot.com on the Alabama Gulf Coast Joined August 2011

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Education Next @EducationNext

6 months ago

"A study conducted over the past year of 44 private, tuition-dependent New England schools that enroll between 1,000 and 8,000 students, reveals that the threat facing colleges and universities could be much more pervasive." bit.ly/3XllIBL

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AirSpot Health @airspothealth

a year ago

Netherlands: CO2 Monitors to be mandatory in all Dutch classrooms. airspothealth.myshopify.com/a/blog/co2-mon… #CleanAirClassrooms

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The Free Press @TheFP

a year ago

“The whole experience knocked me off my ideological pedestal. The most effective way to help my students, I realized, was to radically diverge from the progressive path I’d traveled my entire life.” @LarissaPhillip on the biggest myth of adult illiteracy: thefp.com/p/a-fifth-of-a…

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Emily Hanford @ehanford

a year ago

The Outlier Sold a Story Episode 11: There’s a school district in eastern Ohio where virtually all the students become good readers by the time they finish third grade. How did they do it?

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austerity is theft @wideofthepost

a year ago

More than 40% of all births in this country are covered by Medicaid, more than 60% of all seniors in nursing homes rely on Medicaid coverage –– this is what they're gutting to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

POLITICO @politico

a year ago

Budget won't be changed to address Medicaid concerns, Johnson says ow.ly/QQsK1060vpG

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Derek W. Black @DerekWBlack

a year ago

In Amite County, Mississippi, 84% of the 900 students in public school are students of color, while 96% of the private school students are white. Maybe most disturbing is that whites still run the public schools—from board members to principals. propublica.org/article/segreg…

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deft @postinspace

2 years ago

@jessesingal From Civil War vets thru Marilyn Monroe: the development of the suicide hotline and how they choose the music for those on hold radiolab.org/podcast/hold-on

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deft @postinspace

2 years ago

Important work by scholar @YongZhaoEd: "The purpose of this article is to analyze educational changes, in particular transformational changes, and suggest a new approach to shift the paradigm in education using an ecological conceptual framework."

Yong Zhao, Ph.D @YongZhaoEd

2 years ago

Read my most recent article about the most important thing that needs to change in education (curriculum control vs student autonomy) and how to do it: Paradigm Shifts in Education: An Ecological Analysis journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

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Tes magazine @tes

2 years ago

An increase in truancy among teenage girls could be due to ‘poor mental health, including as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic’, says a new @ucl study tes.com/magazine/news/…

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Michael Kofoed @mikekofoed

2 years ago

In-state tuition for a public university is down to $11,610 a year, compared to $12,140 a decade ago. After grant aid is applied, the average student would pay $2,480, a decrease from the 2014-2015 school year, when that amount totaled $4,140. thehill.com/homenews/educa…

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered

2 years ago

Another Advance for the 3-Year Degree bit.ly/3YzbGy9

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Dr Penny Hay 🇪🇺🕊💚🌳🐝🦋🌹🌈 @PenAHay

2 years ago

Never more urgent Jeanette Winterson ❤️

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn

2 years ago

a-wards as-sem-bly n. An event, often held in an auditorium, that instantly transforms most people present into losers -- while simultaneously undermining the intrinsic motivation, self-confidence, and collaborative orientation of winners and losers alike

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Lauren Wagner @LaurenWReports

2 years ago

One Virginia district is boosting family engagement as the key to decreasing chronic absenteeism. So far, it has conducted thousands of home visits, provided rent money to families, moved judicial hearings to its middle school & more. Latest for @the74: buff.ly/4bsagZF

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The 74 @The74

2 years ago

Hundreds of U.S. high schools wrongfully refused entry to older, immigrant student buff.ly/45uRe3t

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2 years ago

Jones says we are “making progress toward fiscal stability.” But keep in mind: districts that did a mass school closure wound up facing even more fiscal instability. theurbanist.org/2024/05/15/sch…

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deft @postinspace

2 years ago

@The74 "In at least 24 states, parents can face criminal prosecution, fines and jail sentences for address sharing. Only one, Connecticut, has decriminalized the common practice."

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The 74 @The74

2 years ago

The 2011 felony conviction for sending her children to a suburban school outside Akron, Ohio, using their grandfather's address, “destroyed me ... I wasn't the same mom for my daughters,” said Kelley Williams-Bolar buff.ly/3WRyx7N