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Florida, and the Battle for the Soul of Public Education - Passing Period #57
This Week: The Florida State Senate passes a bill that requires teaching that ensures white, and white adjacent folk, cannot be made to feel “discomf…
4 years, 4 months ago
#84 - Schooling for Democracy w/ Dr. Annamarie Francois!
To educators like UCLA’s Dr. Annamarie Francois, schools aren’t just sites for reading and math, but instead are the moral, political, and social cen…
4 years, 4 months ago
May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor - Passing Period #56
This Week: With the COVID infection graph approaching an upward, vertical line, schools across the country open after the holidays, and the great exp…
4 years, 4 months ago
Holiday Break News Roundup - Passing Period #55
This Week: If you understood the assignment, you’re on break right now, spending time with loved ones, not checking work email, silencing your alerts…
4 years, 4 months ago
Omicron, TikTok, and School. Good Grief. - Passing Period #54
This Week: Winter break is here, at least for some of us, and not a moment too soon. As the omicron variant rages across the globe, and in many part…
4 years, 5 months ago
Students Act Out… But Didn’t We Know This Was Coming? - Passing Period #53
This Week: As the holiday season is here, the US Surgeon General releases an Advisory on Protecting Youth Mental Health, and the LA Times drops an ar…
4 years, 5 months ago
Billionaire Bloomberg Declares War on Public Schools - Passing Period #52
This Week: Michael Bloomberg, billionaire former NYC mayor and presidential candidate who nobody wanted to hear from, announced this week that he wil…
4 years, 5 months ago
#83 - Examining Educational Technology and Equity w/ Ken Shelton!
The pandemic hastened what was already a rapidly-evolving relationship between schooling and technology. Although millions of students have now been …
4 years, 5 months ago
NH Goes Nazi, Puts Bounty on Teachers for Teaching Truthful History - Passing Period #51
This Week: The state of New Hampshire passed a so-called anti “CRT” law back in June, but just this month rolled out its mechanism by which people ca…
4 years, 6 months ago
#82 - A Whole School Approach to Humanizing Schools w/ Michael Essien!
Despite knowing that the pre-pandemic approach to schooling wasn’t working for whole swaths of students, many school leaders are struggling to make g…
4 years, 6 months ago