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A Gardner

PBL in HS via Buck Institute for Education - 4 views

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  • A Gardner on 22 Jul 13
     
    [WATCH] #PBL at ACE Leadership High School http://t.co/FN5kAY63a2 #Education #Students #EdReform *students formerly at-risk
Andrew McCluskey

The Finnish Alternative: Reclaiming Public Education From Corporate Reform - 2 views

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  • Andrew McCluskey on 29 Mar 13
     
    Episode 3 - A great comic looking at the problem of education reform!
Andrew McCluskey

Murky Waters: The Education Debate in New Orleans - 1 views

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  • Andrew McCluskey on 29 Mar 13
     
    Episode 2 - A great comic looking at the problem of education reform!
Andrew McCluskey

The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum: The High Price of Education Reform (Episode I) - 0 views

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  • Andrew McCluskey on 29 Mar 13
     
    Episode 1 - A great comic looking at the problem of education reform!
Alfonso Gonzalez

Finland Education System Is Very Laid Back, And Totally Working - 59 views

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      Alfonso Gonzalez on 10 Oct 16
       
      Seems like Finland is still at it. So much we learn from them but the education system here in the US just isn't flexible enough to make enough change to do what is better for kids. Our system is too focused on standardized test scores and accountability and separate subjects.
Jon Tanner

Why Innovation Can't Fix America's Classrooms - Marc Tucker - National - The Atlantic - 1 views

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  • Jon Tanner on 06 Dec 11
     
    This reinforces Scott McLeod's assertion (shared by many others) that we need to have a revolutionary change, not an incremental one.
Tu Loan Trieu Trieu

How children's 'play' is being sneakily redefined - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 52 views

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  • Tu Loan Trieu Trieu on 17 Nov 11
     
    children need more play time
Roland Gesthuizen

In Brooklyn, Hard-Working Teachers, Sabotaged When Student Test Scores Slip - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • If city officials were trying to demoralize and humiliate the workforce, they’ve done a terrific job. News organizations get an assist for publishing the scores,
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 05 Mar 12
     
    A teacher's rating depends on how much progress her students make on state tests in a year's time, and is known as the value-added score. Ms. Allanbrook, the principal, has another name for what's going on. She calls the scores the "invalid value-addeds."
Bill Genereux

On Education - A Popular Principal, Wounded by Good Intentions - NYTimes.com - 38 views

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  • Bill Genereux on 19 Jul 10
     
    Good principal fired to collect federal govt. money in ed reform initiative
Bill Genereux

Economic Scene - Study Rethinks Importance of Kindergarten Teachers - NYTimes.com - 23 views

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  • Some are highly effective. Some are not. And the differences can affect students for years to come.
Bill Genereux

Gates' latest mission: fixing America's schools - Business - Bloomberg Businessweek - m... - 65 views

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  • small schools are overrepresented among the country's highest achievers
  • were not as prescriptive about how they wanted their money spent.
  • want public education run more like a business
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  • what we do know about is management and governance
  • We don't know anything about how to teach
  • Because the smaller a school, the more likely its overall performance can be skewed by a few good or bad students
  • Was Mozart a better musician than Babe Ruth was a hitter?
  • Giving several tests a year can sort out each teacher's contribution
  • if you do raise these issues, it's seen as making excuses or pulling back from commitments
  • The only way to tell a good teacher is to go into their classroom spontaneously
  • tying pay to performance is not at all important in retaining good teachers
  • significant portion of teachers do believe in merit pay
  • states' rights advocates have blocked federal efforts for a national curriculum
  • videotaping math, English, and biology lessons
  • Music instructors questioned the district's decision to evaluate them on their students' grasp of music theory instead of instrumental proficiency
  • Gates is paying $1,500 apiece to more than 600 Hillsborough teachers whose lessons are being videotaped.
Jason Schmidt

School Would Be Great If It Weren't for the Damn Kids - 95 views

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  • It simply doesn’t make sense to try to “purge ‘ineffective’ teachers and principals.”  His listener, almost giddy with gratitude now, prepares to chime in, as Samuelson, without pausing, delivers the punch line:  That’s right, it’s time to stop blaming teachers and start . . . blaming students!
  • His focus is not on students’ achievements (the intellectual accomplishments of individual kids) but only on “student achievement” (the aggregate results of standardized tests)
  • As I’ve noted elsewhere, we have reason to worry when schooling is discussed primarily in the context of “global competitiveness” rather than in terms of what children need or what contributes to a democratic culture
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  • Upon hearing someone castigate students for being insufficiently motivated, a noneconomist might be inclined to ask two questions.  The first is:  “Motivated to do what, exactly”?  Anything they’re told, no matter how unengaging, inappropriate, or, well, demotivating? 
  • Whenever I see students made to cram facts into their short-term memories for a test, practice a series of decontextualized skills on yet another worksheet, listen passively to a lecture, or inch their way through the insipid prose of a corporate-produced textbook, I find myself thinking of a comment made by Frederick Herzberg, a critic of traditional workplace management:  “Idleness, indifference, and irresponsibility,” he said, “are healthy responses to absurd work.”
  • The more you reward people for doing something, or for doing it well, the less interest they typically come to have in whatever they had to do to get the reward. 
  • People who blame students for not being “motivated” tend to think educational success mean little more than higher scores on bad tests and they’re apt to see education itself as a means to making sure our corporations will beat their corporations.  The sort of schooling that results is the type almost guaranteed to . . . kill students’ motivation.
  • one thing that’s happened is a concatenation of rewards and punishments, including grades, which teach students that learning is just a means to an end.
  • Another thing that’s happened is teaching that’s meant primarily to raise test scores.
  • inner-city kids get the worst of the sort of schooling that’s not about exploring and discovering and questioning but only about working hard (often at rote tasks) and being nice (read: obedient).
  • “Motivation is weak because more students…don't like school, don't work hard and don't do well.”  But why don’t they like school (which is the key to understanding why, assuming his premise is correct, they don’t succeed)?  What has happened to their desire to figure out how things work, the hunger to make sense of things, with which all children start out? 
  • if you want to see (intrinsically) motivated kids, you need to visit classrooms or schools that take a nontraditional approach to education, places where students are more likely to be absorbed and frequently delighted, where what they’re doing is not merely “rigorous” (a word often applied to very difficult busywork) but meaningful.
  • Jason Schmidt on 17 Nov 10
     
    Alfie Kohn's commentary on an article written by Robert J. Samuelson. Samuelson argues in his article that the problem with education reform is not the usual suspects like ineffective teachers, but kids who are lazy and unmotivated. Interesting read with thoughtful information about student motivation.
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