the Obama administration's educational policy under the leadership of Arne Duncan lacks a democratic vision and sense of moral direction
t r u t h o u t | Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of... - 0 views
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Almost all of Duncan's polices are indebted to the codes of a market-driven business culture, legitimated through discourses of measurement, efficiency and utility. This is a discourse that values hedge fund managers over teachers, privatization over the public good, management over leadership and training over education. Duncan's fervent support of neoliberal values are well-known and are evident in his support for high-stakes testing, charter schools, school-business alliances, merit pay, linking teacher pay to higher test scores, offering students monetary rewards for higher grades, CEO-type management, abolishing tenure, defining the purpose of schooling as largely job training, the weakening of teacher unions and blaming teachers exclusively for the failure of public schooling.[4]
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Duncan has expanded the reach of his educational reform policies and is now attempting to rewrite curricular mandates. Emphasizing the practical and experiential, he seeks to gut the critical nature of theory, pedagogy and knowledge taught in colleges of education. This is an important issue to more than just teachers who are denied a voice in curricular development; it also affects whole generations of youth. Such a bold initiative reveals in very clear terms the political project that drives his reforms and what he fears about both public schooling and the teachers who labor in classrooms every day.
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Scholar 2.0: Public Intellectualism Meets the Open Web - 1 views
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for the most part, knowledge created by academics is placed mostly in outlets that can be accessed only by “the knowledge elite.”
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I have become so used to publishing directly to the Web that I felt shackled by the constraints of the print medium.
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open access and peer-review are NOT mutually exclusive
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Volatile and Decentralized: Making universities obsolete - 0 views
Opportunities for Creating the Future of Learning - 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future ... - 0 views
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The globalization of open learning systems characterized by cooperative resource creation, evaluation, and sharing will change how educational institutions view their roles and will offer new forms of value in the global learning ecosystem. Education institutions will no longer be exclusive agents of coordination, service provision, quality assurance, performance assessment, or support. In fact, other players might be more equipped to provide these functions in the distributed ecosystem.
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Authority will be a hotly contested resource, and there will be the potential for conflict and distrust.
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It remains to be seen whether new learning agents and traditionally certified teachers will cooperate or compete.
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Offbeat Bride | Copyright, Creative Commons, and your wedding photos - 0 views
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The purpose of copyright law is to promote the progress of science and art.
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most of what you find online is under copyright, even if there is no copyright symbol and no attribution and no source listed
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Copyright comes with a set of exclusive rights.
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