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Cutting Off Noses To Spite Faces
Sent to the Pioneer Press (Twin Cities, MN) One of the strategies Carver Elementary is using to increase its unsatisfactory test scores ("A school on the edge," Dec. 28) is "vocabulary study." Research consistently shows that by far the best way to ...
Oregon\'s Race To The Top Recommendations
I don't know what feelings well up inside you when you read this kind of thing, but for me it's feelings of dread and futility. Just read some of the nonsense that schools now have to concern themselves with if they want money to buy books and penci...
Learning Styles: Nonsense
Cognitive Scientists Debunk Learning-Style TheoriesBy Debra Viadero on December 17, 2009 9:47 AMAt one time or another, we've all heard "experts" assert that children have different learning styles. Some children, for instance, may be visual learners...
21st Century Skills: How To Create Workers, Not Citizens
From Mike Rose at truthdig: The economic motive has always figured in the spread of mass education in the United States, but recently it has predominated, edging out all the other reasons we send kids to school: civic, social, ethical, developmental....
Let Teachers Run A School? Yes!
Deal would let L.A. teachers create "pilot schools" December 3, 2009 Local school officials and the teachers union have reached a tentative deal that would help groups of teachers bid for control of 30 campuses under a recently adopted school-refor...
Arne Duncan Talks Formative Assessments (Pop Quizzes)
I don't think I heard anything of substance in this discussion. Gwen seemed dubious about the Dunc, with good reason. The Dunc speaks poorly, sounds like a marketer, and has clearly never been in a classroom. I heard nothing specific come from his...
Sentence Of The Day
From Jim Horn: The KIPP dropout factories have become the sustaining illusion and delusion for the positive psychology hypesters like Broad and Gates and the glassy-eyed drones of Martin Seligman, whose entire urban reform system is built on a house ...
The Science Of Teaching Reading: There Is No Right Way
Research on teaching reading is basically nonsense. Scripted curricula, hours of test-prep and focus on testing is damaging our kids. They need to be exposed to all the stuff that makes up their world BEFORE they focus on the minutiae that we adult...
More Truth Comes Out On School Reform
From truthout: Education Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure ... If Congress and the administration are wise, they'll use their levers of power not to tighten but to loosen the rigor screws and end the innovation-stifling role of Carnegie Units, ...
Evidence? We Don\'t Need No Stinking Evidence!
I sure wish the rigor Duncan expects of teachers and students were also expected of him and his data. But, alas, no amount of data is ever enough to sway those who are well funded. Here is a quote from Jim Horn's latest on the nonsense: This is jus...
From The Mouth Of A Test Scorer...
From Schools Matter comes this from an experienced scorer: We'd have to score enough student essays accurately during a training session to prove we could do the job in a standardized way, a process that allowed the testing company that hired us to c...
Edubloggers Agree: Arne Duncan Is A Disaster
Doug Noon at Borderland isn't having any of the Duncan nonsense either. I don’t get it; this seems altogether backward. I say, “Education is about more than great teaching.” It’s also about informed policy implementation, professional develop...
The Answer To Education Reform: Adjust Your Mindset!
Bill Gates has the answer to education reform ($$$$), and it's nothing short of incredible! All you need to do is adjust the teachers' mindsets! Easy! The Gates Foundation will be funding teacher development in Pittsburgh, a $6.5 million investment...
Arne Duncan: Read This Before You Do More Interviews
Agrarian Calendar NO ...
Arne Duncan: Read This Before You Do More Interviews
Agrarian Calendar NO ...
Jerry Brown's Thoughts On Education
Anthony Cody digs up a comment from former Governer, Mayor Jerry Brown on the Race to the Top nonsense: Re: Race to the Top Fund [Docket ID ED-2009-OESE-0006] In view of the hundreds of comments that are being submitted, I am confining my own...
Jerry Brown\'s Thoughts On Education
Anthony Cody digs up a comment from former Governor, Mayor Jerry Brown, on the Race to the Top nonsense:Re: Race to the Top Fund [Docket ID ED-2009-OESE-0006]In view of the hundreds of comments that are being submitted, I am confining my own to...
Colbert Softballs Duncan
Corey makes a great point, one that I also thought of as soon as Duncan said it: 2.) Duncan said that he wanted schools to serve as community centers and that they were often the heart of a neighborhood. I'm not sure how this is compatible with...
Colbert Softballs Duncan
Corey makes a great point, one that I also thought of as soon as Duncan said it: 2.) Duncan said that he wanted schools to serve as community centers and that they were often the heart of a neighborhood. I'm not sure how this is compatible with...
Teacher Evaluations Based On Student Scores: It\'s Official
It's now official: Teachers will be evaluated based on the scores of their students (in D.C.... for now). Congratulations, America! New D.C. Teacher Ratings Stress Better Test Scores By Bill Turque D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has laun...
Teacher Evaluations Based On Student Scores: It's Official
It's now official: Teachers will be evaluated based on the scores of their students (in D.C.... for now). Congratulations, America! New D.C. Teacher Ratings Stress Better Test Scores By Bill Turque D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has laun...
Thursday Cartoon Fun: Education Edition
Thursday Cartoon Fun: Education Edition
Remember This Guy?
From a campaign speech in Wallingford, Pa. on April 2, 2008: Where did that guy go? He was purchased by Gates and Broad. h/t Mike Klonsky ...
Remember This Guy?
From a campaign speech in Wallingford, Pa. on April 2, 2008: Where did that guy go? He was purchased by Gates and Broad. h/t Mike Klonsky ...
