How School Board Meetings Became Flashpoints for Anger and Chaos Across the Country
In the first wide-ranging analysis of school board unrest, ProPublica found nearly 60 incidents that led to arrests or criminal charges. Almost all were in suburban districts, and nearly every participant was white.
I created a free #K12 interactive #science quiz for #students to discover which Order a Mammal belongs to. If you'd like to beta test it and let me know if you find glitches, I'd appreciate it. I've stared at the screen for too long and am no longer seeing the branching questions objectively. The plugin limits me to a max of 25 categories, so I had to get creative. TIA for the feedback. https://handinhandhomeschool.com/teaching/science/mammal-quiz/
While many would agree that A-levels are too narrowly focussed, the move to a baccalaureate system without significant reform of the rest of the system would be a disaster;
and reforming the rest of a system currently in crisis & with a lack of goodwill from #Teachers sounds more like another swing of the wrecking ball rather than a real desire to improve the UK's #education
I wan to make a request to #Science#Teachers: When you design labs please design some (most) without step-by-step instructions. The chances of your students needing pipette skills in 10 years is remote. What will serve most student better will be the ability to identify a problem, design and experiment that might explain that problem, setup and run that experiment, then interpret the results. Perhaps followed up by design a second experiment if the first didn't help.
Save the "follow the recipe" skills for home ec. The most important thing you can teach your student at any level is experimental design.
#ClimateDiary Huge sad outburst by 12yo (in Y7) just now about how boring school is. Day after day the same things, double maths, double English, all hammered in for #GCSEs in 4 years. Would love to hear from any #UK#Teachers or teenage parents on here: Is the English National curriculum really just incredibly boring?
She also said: what is the relevance of all this for #ClimateCrisis? I want to learn history and geography and science, the things that actually matter and will help us 💔 1/2
I understand #teaching unions were told there would be no offer at all if it wasn't recommended to members;
However, it now looks possible that #Teachers have seen though the under-funded promises & the thinness of the promises for future (staged) rises;
But, if rumours are right, teachers may vote to reject the offer, leaving the teaching unions in the same place as the #Nurses unions, with a rejected offer but little appetite for further #strikes;
Have any of you ever read r/Teachers on Reddit? Shit is WILD over there. Like, my kids come home from 7th and 8th grade and talk about how there are 7th graders who just can't read and I'm like "my kid is exaggerating" and then there's actual damn TEACHERs talking to each other saying "Shit my kids can't read like just CAN'T"... and it's apparently stuff teachers have been saying for around 10 yrs... In about 5-10 years our society is going to collapse as far as I can see. #teachers#education
As the crisis in #schools continues, the detail(s) that come to light are both horrifying & instructive of how far the #social collapse engineered over the last decade & half by the #Tories has gone.
We should be enduring our young people have a supportive & developmental school environment, not causing (especially vulnerable pupils) further angst, stress & isolation.
#Teachers are doing the best they can in almost impossible circumstances while the #tories grim & jeer
Red flag: In the US, "#teachers are dead last among all occupational groups and professions in feeling their opinions count at work, that their supervisor creates an open and trusting environment and that they are treated with respect each day. Teachers are also the highest of all professions in experiencing burn-out and stress. And it’s no wonder why half of all teachers are currently looking for a new job." https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonbusteed/2024/02/23/to-fix-us-education-free-our-teachers/
An Experiment to Fight Pandemic-Era Learning Loss Launches in #Richmond
After intense opposition and skepticism, two elementary #schools opened 20 days early to help #students make up for what they missed during the time of #RemoteLearning.
The first question: Would kids show up in the middle of #summer for extra schooling?
False alarm. Still there. This is brutal. macOS is starting to feel like Windows – death by a thousand unnecessary security alerts and notifications. There needs to be some kind of "power user" option to turn this off. 😖
Who’s at fault? Apple? The team writing ScreenFlow? Hard to know, but QuickTime Player doesn't make the purple icon show up.
Is it an API bug? Apple using private APIs so the icon doesn't show for QT? ScreenFlow misusing the API?
Israel had destroyed literally all universities in Gaza and damaged over 400 schools. Lest we forget also Israel's deliberate targeting of university professors and academics.
She Campaigned for a #Texas School Board Seat as a #GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.
Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that #students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.