The AFT, along with AFSCME and SEIU, will present a Zoom town hall Dec. 2 at 6 p.m. ET to answer questions about forthcoming COVID-19 vaccines.
“This event is designed to provide you with information from credible sources,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten. “We believe all of the participating panelists are qualified and free from political influence.”…
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Effective 6 a.m. Dec. 5, all indoor youth and adult sports (practices and competitions) will be paused through Jan. 2, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy said during his Nov. 30 coronavirus briefing.
“This aligns, by the way, with both the efforts of the NJSIAA and those of our neighboring states,” Murphy said. “We do not take this step lightly.…
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Registration is open now for “The Power in a Union — Mobilizing Your Workplace,” a development program for New Jersey union members and leaders.
Learn about internal union organizing and experience discussions that focus on how unions can “unionize” their members to support values and goals.
The online course from Rutgers University’s Continuing Studies division costs $90 and will held at 5:30-8:30 p.m.…
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By registering for one of the webcasts in the AFT Share My Lesson Health & Wellness series, you’ll be entered for a chance to win an Apple Watch 6.
Register here by Dec. 7 to be eligible for the Dec. 10 drawing.
For official rules, click here.…
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James M. Lang, an English professor at the Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption University in Massachusetts, is the author of “Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It” (Basic Books).
In an interview with Inside Higher Ed’s Doug Lederman, Lang discusses his approach to using devices in the classroom, how to cultivate and sustain attention in that environment and more.…
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The 2019-20 academic year saw a decline in international students in the United States for the first time in more than 10 years, according to a recent report from the Institute of International Education and the U.S. Department of State.
Education Dive takes a closer look at the report.…
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Around 70 percent of parents and guardians prefer a learning model for their children that has some classroom instruction, according to a Reuters survey of 217 school districts in 30 states.
Meanwhile, many districts “have been forced to raid their regular budgets and reserves,” write Kristina Cooke, Benjamin Lesser and M.B. Pell for Reuters, “creating the potential for cutbacks later affecting anything from textbook purchases to payroll.”…
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AFT President Randi Weingarten spoke by phone Nov. 23 with Zerlina Maxwell, co-host of the “Signal Boost” show on SiriusXM’s Progress channel, about education and the pandemic.
Here is some of what Weingarten had to say:
“I’m not giving up on the second semester of this year. … We’ve spent all weekend long kind of putting together what we think is like the 10 things that we need to do for schools — school buildings, not just for schools, but for school buildings — to be reopened in the spring.”…
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As part of her lessons about Thanksgiving, Susannah Remillard, a language arts teacher in East Harwich, Massachusetts, asks her students to write poems from the Pilgrim and Wampanoag points of view.
“We carry this Colonial view of how we teach, and now we have a moment to step outside that and think about whether that is harmful for kids, and if there isn’t a better way,” Remillard said in a story by Associated Press writer Collin Binkley.…
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Nearly 90 percent of respondents to a recent EdWeek Research Center survey said teachers should be considered essential workers who receive early access to COVID-19 vaccines.
The nationally representative survey of 913 educators (prekindergarten through 12) was conducted this month after Pfizer and Moderna reported promising clinical trial results of their respective vaccines.
Finishing second to teachers were school nurses (85 percent), followed by school bus drivers (84 percent).…
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An analysis of federal data by analytics software company Burning Glass Technologies finds that about 50 percent of programs that first graduated students in the 2012-13 or 2013-14 academic years reported five or fewer conferrals in 2018.
In “Bad Bets: The High Cost of Failing Programs in Higher Education,” Burning Glass also reports that two-thirds of new programs produced 10 or fewer graduates in 2018.…
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy appeared Nov. 23 on “Good Morning America” to discuss coronavirus restrictions in the Garden State and was asked by George Stephanopoulos whether schools can remain open.
“Assuming we can do it safely, and keep our case transmission as low as it has been, I hope we can keep schools open,” Murphy said.…
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