Education

If only the barriers to new, creative educational opportunities were as easy to exterminate as lizards and squirrels. Instead, during an unprecedented time of need for alternative learning structures, bureaucrats appear to be worrying more about funding and maintaining the status quo in government-run schools than allowing families to pursue temporary new education platforms. … [Read more...] about COVID-19 changed learning, but obstructionist politics of education remain

She said: “Nothing in our schools is compulsory, apart from the Holocaust. In my opinion, a big example of institutional racism is exactly what Black Lives Matter wants to encourage, they want schools to teach fewer dead white men like Dickens or Churchill and more black authors and historical figures.” … [Read more...] about Top BAME Teacher: BLM Encouraging Institutional Racism, ‘Decolonising’ Education ‘Divides Us’

“White privilege doesn’t mean you haven’t worked hard, or you don’t deserve the success you’ve had. It doesn’t mean that your life isn’t hard or that you’ve never suffered. It simply means that your skin colour has not been the cause of your hardship or suffering,” he declared — making no allowance for the fact that white people have indeed been murdered because of their race, grievously injured while being racially abused, or excluded from jobs and lucrative paid internships at institutions including the BBC on racial grounds. … [Read more...] about WATCH: BBC Pushes ‘White Privilege’ Through Bitesize School Education Service

It is common for people to discount opportunity youth because some were recently homeless or involved in the juvenile justice or child welfare systems. But, as former domestic policy advisors to two presidents — one Democrat, one Republican — we work with many of them, side-by-side; recognize their potential, goals and contributions; and know a full recovery from this crisis will not occur without them. Opportunity youth play an increasingly critical role in our communities and our economy. … [Read more...] about The millions of young people forgotten amid pandemic response

“It screams disrespect,” Jodi Disario, a drama and English teacher at Willow Glen High School with underlying health conditions, told the San Jose Mercury News. “We work very hard to do what’s best for our students, and we don’t feel like someone is working very hard to do what’s best for us.” … [Read more...] about Reopenings: San Jose Unified Teachers Ordered To Teach From Empty Classrooms