Austin has the highest deportation rate in all of Texas-19 ppl/week are deported from Travis County-Alejandro Casera #Austin #AbriendoBrecha
Audience Q: how do we do research without "recolonizing" the classroom? What did you give back to the community?#AbriendoBrecha #AISD #UT
"#UT is a problematic"base of operations"but I am going to take every resource I can and use it towards changing the world"Prof Kevin Foster
"How do we ensure that the action orientation we came to UT for is maintained in a robust way?"Kevin Foster #activistresearch @UT_DDCE
Two way dual language programs are concentrated in neighborhoods with white affluent families in #Austin #AbriendoBrecha
Texas Civil Rights @Abriendo_Brecha"we found flows of priv funding into low SES schools were around $20/stu and high SES were $900" #Austin
"It is vital that teachers understand the current politics of education in addition to being anti-racist, ELL cert, etc." #NPEChicago
"You know whose been the most missing from the debate? Teacher Educators." And pre-service teachers! #NPEChicago, teacher Ed panel
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#NPEChicago"we will protect anyb who gets in trouble for providing parents w/info on their right to optout or not to optout"@rweingarten
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"We are standing between a profiteer and his profits. That's a dangerous and important place to be" #NPEChicago @Lily_NEA
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Chad Summer TFA 11': If you want to fight TFA, support student groups #NPEChicago @USAS @supenational
Amy Tan TFA 11'"we have to remember that TFA recruits are victims of the system too;they are being used and they don't know it" #NPEChicago
Amy Tan TFA 11': "I am still a teacher DESPITE TFA" #NPEChicago @TeachForAmerica #EdEquity #teachforamerica #tfa #edchat
#NPEChicago film "Go Public"-can watch 50 shorts made by the Pasadena CA community #edchat #strongpublicschools
In 2000 the testing industry was worth $263 million--In 2014 it was worth $2.64 Billion #NPEChicago (Dem and Social Change Panel)
"Every elem literacy package should come with a warning label: may increase test scores but kill students desire to read" #NPEChicago 👏👏👏