GLOBAL
Association for Teacher Education in Europe. 2020 Spring Conference, 20-22 May, Florence, Italy. Postponed.
Parenting and Education in Ireland. UNESCO Mobilizes Education Ministers in COVID-19 Crisis UNESCO’s expertise in open and distance learning spans teacher training platforms, the design of e-learning school models, online communities of practice and the development of national ICT in education policies…
Times Educational Supplement (tes). Coronavirus: New teachers will qualify despite shutdown Education secretary Gavin Williamson confirmed that trainee teachers who miss out on their full complement of school training hours because of school closures will still qualify as teachers.
UNITED STATES
AACTE. Education Funding and HEA Reauthorization in Play on Capitol Hill Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chair of the Senate HELP Committee, and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the HELP Committee, have issued somewhat dueling statements about the likelihood of a long-awaited bipartisan deal on a Higher Education Act reauthorization bill…
Chalkbeat. Literacy bill on the move in Tennessee Legislature, minus the phrase ‘science of reading’ Currently, the state has 44 teacher training programs, but no common requirements when it comes to literacy instruction. That’s going to stop, said Mike Krause, executive director of the Tennessee Higher Education Commission.
CT Mirror. Would we evaluate a lawyer or doctor from a three-minute video clip? On Friday, March 6, the Education Committee held a hearing on House Bill 5376, a bill that proposes the elimination of edTPA as a requirement for teacher certification.
Education Week.
1) National Education Policy Center, Deans’ Group Take Aim at the ‘Reading Wars’ “The overall body of high quality research in the teaching of early reading counsels us to make sure that our teachers have a complete toolbox, and are professionally prepared to use that full toolbox because different students have different needs,” said Kevin G. Welner, the director of NEPC, in an interview with Education Week. “The rejection of this idea of balanced literacy is potentially dangerous if we are removing tools from that toolbox.”
2) Teachers Share Resources for Teaching Online During Coronavirus School Closures
First STEP, Fulton County Schools (GA). On a Mission to Help Student-Teachers Thrive—and Stay in the Profession [new YouTube video]
Forbes. Learning In The Time Of COVID-19 [by L. Darling-Hammond] Among these resources are many targeted to social and emotional learning as well as content learning, to English learners and to students with disabilities, to teachers who are learning new on-line pedagogies, and to parents who are learning to support their children’s education at home.
Hechinger Report. Ready or not, a new era of homeschooling has begun In addition, most schools and teachers are unprepared to take their lessons online, and the education they can offer over the internet, on the fly, could be rough and wildly uneven.
National Education Policy Center and Education Deans for Justice and Equity. Policy Statement on the “Science of Reading” This “balanced literacy” approach, which stresses the importance of phonics and of authentic reading – and which stresses the importance of teachers who are professionally prepared to teach reading using a full toolbox of instructional approaches and understandings – is now strongly supported in the scholarly community and is grounded in a large research base.
NYTimes.
1) Coronavirus Resource Page for Students
2) Teachers Deserve More Respect [OpEd] President Trump and his education secretary, Betsy DeVos… have also fought to eliminate civil rights protections in schools; to cut funding to reduce class size, teacher training and support; to make it easier for students to get away with sexual assault and harassment; and to put guns in schools….
NCEE. NCEE Statement on Passage of the Blueprint For Maryland’s Future by the Maryland Legislature It raises the pay of teachers and requires them to meet higher standards to become educators. It establishes careers in teaching and makes advancement in those careers contingent on a teachers’ [sic] skills.
Washington Post.
1) Senate Democrats propose bailout for student loan borrowers The Democrats are calling for at least $10,000 in tax-free debt cancellation for all federal student loan borrowers. They want the Education Department to assume loan payments for the duration of the national emergency and then institute a three-month grace period during which borrowers can forgo their payments without penalty. Payments made by the department would still count toward loan forgiveness for borrowers in public service jobs.
2) Trump suspends interest on all federal student loans to ease financial impact of coronavirus Suspending payments, she said, could have been disruptive for people working toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness, a federal program that cancels the remaining balance of a borrower’s debt after 120 on-time monthly payments.
NEW YORK STATE
Chalkbeat. Schools to close across New York state, governor says
NYSED.
1) NYSED Coronavirus Guidance Colleges and Universities Professional licensure or certification clinical experience courses must meet regulatory requirements. If present emergency circumstances create challenges associated with meeting clinical experience requirements, institutions should contact NYSED concerning appropriate alternatives to meet requirements, such as clinical simulation options.
2) The public comment period is open: proposed regulatory amendments to revise the composition of the Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching, including adding practicing, certified administrators to the Board & increasing membership to 30
NEW YORK CITY
Chalkbeat. NYC schools to close Monday for at least 4 weeks amid coronavirus pandemic
