Study links restricting screen time for kids to higher mental performance wapo.st/2DLQ9LB

'A new study of K-12 STEM educators demonstrates how adding linguistic information into classroom teaching can help remove barriers to STEM achievement for African-American students.' Read more about the research published in the Sept. issue of Language.
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'[I]t is crucial to assist students not only in learning academic material & information, but also in developing their own linguistic agency & finding their own voice' eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2…

When we study the educational experiences that the wealthy want for their children; choice, creativity, autonomy..

When we study the experiences that are often mandated for marginalized youth; sit still, walk in a line, don't talk.

We can question & interrupt this. We must.❤️

Preview of Eve L. Ewing used to go by wikipedia brown’s forthcoming book on school closings: “Parents and community members also weren’t pleased at the insistent focus on numbers, as if schools were only machines meant to pump out results.” southsideweekly.com/more-than-a-sc…

Also be sure to check out Jack Schneider's presentation. Especially the alternative approach he provides on slide 10. As he says, 'What Makes a School Great? Not demography, not just scores, not ranking.' But 'Helping young people develop their full potential.'

We really need to reject the CPS school rating system (which dates to before 2008, btw). This article has so much important info, but the constant reference to the school ratings as if they actually reflect the strengths of a school, is very problematic. blockclubchicago.org/2018/07/24/as-…

i spent months crunching data and talking to principals, teachers and parents — all to better understand the relationship between gentrification and CPS in logan square. here's the result: blockclubchicago.org/2018/07/24/as-… Block Club Chicago

Please stop rewarding good attendance in schools. It’s great for those with good health but discriminating and demoralising for those who haven’t. My 12 year old who takes daily chemotherapy for leukaemia has 83% attendance this year. I am proud. He thinks his school isn’t.

There are great things happening in many CPS scls. Bravo to Mayra Almaraz for winning a Teaching Tolerance 2018 award for her work 'teaching students to recognize and fight systemic inequality.' tx Dave Stieber tolerance.org/magazine/and-t…

This weekend I sorted through some papers my mom saved from my childhood. The top one is my 4th grade self evaluation. The bottom, my 4th grade state test score. Random House published my 6th book last week. #MoreThanATest

@spolos @gailDrich Rosemarie Jensen, M.Ed. Elizabeth Lynch Susan DuFresne CriticalClassrooms Anthony Cody☮️ Jeremiah Henderson I just came back from a tour of August Wilson’s homesite in Pittsburgh. His teacher accused him of plagiarism. He never went back to school. Not only should we oppose testing, we need to oppose harsh, unforgiving schooling.

We have to reduce the police presence, transform the school culture & restore transformative conditions for young people #CrystalLaura #solutions #SEW2018

What should we do instead of punishing young people? Love them, focus on justice & create joyful places for them to exist #CrystalLaura #SEW2018

Eve L. Ewing used to go by wikipedia brown in my grade school experience, any advocacy on behalf of students that remotely went against the administration would result in disciplinary action or threat of it. and then we wonder why young people aren't civically engaged or participating in democracy once they graduate

Mother of a child killed a block from Hirsch at #cpsboard asking for an investment in Hirsch

SEIU Local 73 Chicago Sun-Times Chicago Teachers Union Karen Lewis Raise Your Hand Cassie Creswell also blasts CPS for a data breach last weekend that shared the names emails and phone #s of about 3K students - blasted a file containing them through an email list. took hours to stop.

#Janus was announced today. It was not a good decision. Read and share this article from Bob Peterson Rethinking Schools for some strategies about how we can fight back: bit.ly/JanusDecision_… twitter.com/RethinkSchools…

Audrey Watters PL: another mrktg buzzword rehashed over decades to describe teaching machines, scrambled texts, CAI, CBE, e-learning, etc

An excellent critique of competency based learning from Audrey Watters - Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2014 #highered #CBE 2014trends.hackeducation.com/competency.html