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"Why your child’s best bet is a neighborhood public school" - Public schools can be great, and there are a lot of reasons for students to go to their neighborhood school!

Part of a new normal would be making sure every single public school is able to give every single child the support and care they need to learn. Let's give them the gift of classes that aren't overloaded, appropriate funding for materials/supplies, support staff to help them care for the mental and emotional health ... Our future is worth the investment!

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Accountabaloney has the right idea. Some want to attack schools no matter what. But they are worth saving. Let's do that instead.

Ignore the Vultures: Let Us Get to Work Saving Our Schools. | accountabaloney Covid, Education Funding, Privatization Ignore the Vultures: Let Us Get to Work Saving Our Schools. While the privatization vultures are circling, dreaming of ways to funnel Covid recovery funds towards their pet projects and political agendas, Florida’s teachers are wrapping up the most remarkabl...

This sounds like a good place to start with creating a new normal for public education. Empower the professionals!!

Thank you for all that you do every day!

What does real teacher appreciation look like? Listening to teachers. Like these Chicago teachers.

Real teacher appreciation is a fair contract and manageable class sizes for Chicago’s schools | Chicago Teachers Union Chicago’s public school students need individual attention from their teachers, which is impossible with as many as 48 students in a kindergarten class. CHICAGO, May 8, 2019—Chicago Public Schools has the highest class sizes across grades 1-4 of any school district in the entire Chicago metropol...

It's Teacher Appreciation Week! What do teachers need as we create a new normal for public education? Teachers need to lead! (This opinion piece is a few years old, but still incredibly relevant.)

Real Teacher Appreciation: Let Them Lead In the first in a series of blog posts on teacher leadership, Gretchen Weber, managing researcher at AIR, argues that we honor teachers by letting them lead. Teacher appreciation, she argues, means schools and districts must commit to creating teacher leadership structures that are strong, authentic...

One thing we will need to create a new normal for public education is to prioritize it in federal, state, and local budgets! Continually choosing to underfund public education is selling our and our youths' futures short.

Big City Sups warn Congress: $200B needed for catastrophic K-12 cuts due to COVID-19 - Fund Education Now The Council of the Great City Schools, the nation’s primary coalition of large urban public-school districts, sent a letter (4.28.20) urging Congress to approve $175 billion in additional Educational Stabilization Funds as part the next Coronavirus supplemental appropriations bill to be distribute...

Happy May Day! Let's keep collectively working to create a new normal for public education!

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Sounds pretty good, right? How can we get American public schools closer to this model?

10 reasons why Finland's education system is the best No standardized tests, no private schools, no stress. Finland's education system is consistently ranked best in the world. Why isn't America copying it?

How to get away from standardized classes that we must aim towards high stakes, multiple choice tests?

'The Objective of Education Is Learning, Not Teaching' - Knowledge@Wharton In their book, Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track, authors Russell L. Ackoff and Daniel Greenberg point out that today's education system is seriously flawed -- it focuses on teaching rather than learning. "Why should children -- or adults -- be asked to do something com...

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