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CA Parent Power

@caparentpower

Parent-led organization centering the voices of students and families in public education and helping reimagine education reform in California

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linkhttps://www.caparentpower.org/ calendar_today10-01-2021 05:06:15

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Chad Aldeman (@chadaldeman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Cell phones and digital media have caused pre-teens and teens to disconnect from the real world, have increased mental health challenges, and have caused significant disruption in the important daily learning opportunities in their classrooms” — Emily Anne Gullickson, M.Ed. J.D.

SF Parents #SFKidsCantWait (@sfparents) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Should SFUSD establish cell phone-free schools benefiting students, parents, and teachers across our city, ensuring a healthier educational environment where every child is free to learn?

Alexander Russo (@alexanderrusso) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Sometimes it feels like the adults (parents, journalists) are having more of a problem with the idea of limiting cell phones than the kids.

SF Parents #SFKidsCantWait (@sfparents) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We always said: Fixing our budget will be hard, not fixing it will be harder. SFUSD chose the latter and now CA steps in and makes the calls.

Holly Korbey (@hkorbey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New from me: I sat down with Emily Hanford to talk everything that's happened since Sold a Story, all the new laws and the criticism, and her takeaways. "If there's something that children need to know, I think we should commit as a society to teaching it." edutopia.org/article/how-a-…

Kareem J. Weaver (@kjwineducation) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If school systems prioritized what works and examined the evidence of and conditions for success, they could avoid the senseless fumbles. Not just tutoring, and not just Detroit. But it's good to hear board members asking questions about effectiveness.

Kareem J. Weaver (@kjwineducation) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Much respect for this California teacher's honest thread about California interest groups needing to stop their powerful advocacy that's undermining kids' Right to Read Californians Together California Teachers Association

Emily Hanford (@ehanford) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Many schools rely on an organization called EdReports when deciding which reading programs to purchase. But there's a problem with that.

Laura Powell (@laurapowellesq) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Oakland teachers’ union has the nerve to pretend it prioritizes the needs of children, but it feels like they are constantly looking for excuses to shut down schools.

Garry Tan (@garrytan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We need to legalize math in California Today the anti-math education bureaucrats are trying to force the UC system to water down math standards to accept fake data science courses that don’t teach algebra We interviewed Jelani Nelson, CS division chair @ Berkeley to get the low down

Jelani Nelson (@minilek) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In Sacramento today to advocate for upholding rigorous math standards before the Assembly Education Committee. Follow along on savemath.net. Stay tuned. #LegalizeMath

In Sacramento today to advocate for upholding rigorous math standards before the Assembly Education Committee. Follow along on savemath.net.

Stay tuned. #LegalizeMath
Karen Vaites (@karenvaites) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Ai yi yi. The same day that California advances a bill to build stronger reading foundations… Advocates speak out about bills designed to water down math expectations.

Karen Vaites (@karenvaites) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Californians are playing Whack a Mole against Data Science courses that replace rigorous high schools math with lesser options. At least we might see some headway in literacy this year:

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“SFUSD criss-crossed the country trumpeting a success which did not exist.” Then its watered-down high school math approach spread across the country. SFUSD parent Maya Keshavan: “I have no idea why the 2017 Board of Education just accepted all this without asking questions. I

“SFUSD criss-crossed the country trumpeting a success which did not exist.”

Then its watered-down high school math approach spread across the country.

SFUSD parent Maya Keshavan:

“I have no idea why the 2017 Board of Education just accepted all this without asking questions. I
Save Math (@savemathnow) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yes it does. Check (the CMF) Ch. 12, Lines 78-88, Ralph Pantozzi. "A particularly damaging assessment practice to avoid is the use of timed tests to assess speed of mathematical fact retention, as such tests have been found to prompt mathematics anxiety (Engle, 2002).”