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Leslie Harris

Money, Race and Success: How Your School District Compares - The New York Times - 0 views

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infographic education school district race success new york times economic status

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  • Leslie Harris on 29 Apr 16
     
    Interesting infographics demonstrating that sixth graders in the richest school districts are four grade levels ahead of children in the poorest districts.
Leslie Harris

Teens do better in science when they know Einstein and Curie also struggled - Quartz - 0 views

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growth mindset Education Psychology fixed mindset school

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  • Leslie Harris on 29 Feb 16
     
    Apparently learning that science does not always come naturally-even to geniuses-helps children succeed. Students who learned that great scientists struggled, both personally and intellectually, outperformed those who learned only of the scientists' great achievements, new research shows. Ninth- and 10th-grade students in low-performing New York City schools who read about Albert Einstein's struggles, including multiple school changes...
Todd Suomela

Lambda School - A Revolutionary New School That Invests In You - 0 views

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education professional alternative business-model

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  • Todd Suomela on 28 May 19
     
    A school that only requires you to pay back tuition after you start earning$50000
Matt Gardzina

School Not Working? Flip It | Via Meadia - 0 views

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Flipping

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  • Matt Gardzina on 22 Sep 13
     
    Study shows flipped classroom improves student outcomes
Leslie Harris

Turning Education Upside Down - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Leslie Harris on 09 Oct 13
     
    High schools are flipping over flipping. ;-)
Todd Suomela

Author discusses new book about how American higher education has always been 'a perfec... - 0 views

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academia university college education history america organization challenge

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  • The typical university is in constant tension between autonomous academic departments, which control curriculum and faculty hiring and promotion, and a strong president, who controls funding and is responsible only to the lay board of directors who own the place. Also thrown into the mix are a jumble of independent institutes, research centers and academic programs that have emerged in response to a variety of funding opportunities and faculty initiatives. The resulting institution is a hustler’s paradise, driven by a wide array of entrepreneurial actors: faculty trying to pursue intellectual interests and forge a career; administrators trying to protect and enrich the larger enterprise; and donors and students who want to draw on the university’s rich resources and capitalize on association with its stellar brand. These actors are feverishly pursuing their own interests within the framework of the university, which lures them with incentives, draws strength from their complex interactions and then passes these benefits on to society.
  • The biggest problem facing the American system of higher education today is how to deal with its own success. In the 19th century, very few people attended college, so the system was not much in the public spotlight. Burgeoning enrollments in the 20th century put the system center stage, especially when it became the expectation that most people should graduate from some sort of college. As higher education moved from being an option to becoming a necessity, it increasingly found itself under the kind of intense scrutiny that has long been directed at American schools.
  • The danger posed by this accountability pressure is that colleges, like the K-12 schools before them, will come under pressure to narrow their mission to a small number of easily measurable outcomes. Most often the purpose boils down to the efficient delivery of instructional services to students, which will provide them with good jobs and provide society with an expanding economy. This ignores the wide array of social functions that the university serves. It’s a laboratory for working on pressing social problems; a playpen for intellectuals to pursue whatever questions seem interesting; a repository for the knowledge needed to address problems that haven’t yet emerged; a zone of creativity and exploration partially buffered from the realm of necessity; and, yes, a classroom for training future workers. The system’s organizational messiness is central to its social value.
    • Todd Suomela
      Todd Suomela on 29 Jun 17
       
      The idea that colleges should be valued for their organizational messiness is also quite interesting. Where does this messiness fit into Bucknell?
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  • The American system of higher education emerged in a unique historical setting in the early 19th century, when the state was weak, the market strong and the church divided. Whereas the European university was the creature of the medieval Roman Catholic church and then grew strong under the rising nation-state in the early modern period, the American system lacked the steady support of church or state and had to rely on the market in order to survive. This posed a terrible problem in the 19th century, as colleges had to scrabble around looking for consumers who would pay tuition and for private sponsors who would provide donations. But at the same time, it planted the seeds of institutional autonomy that came to serve the system so well in the next two centuries. Free from the control of church and state, individual colleges learned to survive on their own resources by meeting the needs of their students and their immediate communities.
Todd Suomela

Rejecting Test Surveillance in Higher Education by Lindsey Barrett :: SSRN - 0 views

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digital-pedagogy proctoring testing education

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  • Todd Suomela on 24 Jun 21
     
    "The rise of remote proctoring software during the COVID-19 pandemic illustrates the dangers of surveillance-enabled pedagogy built on the belief that students can't be trusted. These services, which deploy a range of identification protocols, computer and internet access limitations, and human or automated observation of students as they take tests remotely, are marketed as necessary to prevent cheating. But the success of these services in their stated goal is ill- supported at best and discredited at worst, particularly given their highly over- inclusive criteria for "suspicious" behavior. Meanwhile, the harms they inflict on students are clear: severe anxiety among test-takers, concerning data collection and use practices, and discriminatory flagging of students of color and students with disabilities have provoked widespread outcry from students, professors, privacy advocates, policymakers, and sometimes universities themselves. To make matters worse, the privacy and civil rights laws most relevant to the use of these services are generally inadequate to protect students from the harms they inflict. Colleges and universities routinely face difficult decisions that require reconciling conflicting interests, but whether to use remote proctoring software isn't one of them. Remote proctoring software is not pedagogically beneficial, institutionally necessary, or remotely unavoidable, and its use further entrenches inequities in higher education that schools should be devoted to rooting out. Colleges and universities should abandon remote proctoring software, and apply the lessons from this failed experiment to their other existing or potential future uses of surveillance technologies and automated decision-making systems that threaten students' privacy, access to important life opportunities, and intellectual freedom. "
jatolbert

DLAx | The Digital Liberal Arts Exchange - 0 views

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  • Many schools have recently embarked upon initiatives in digital scholarship – those forms of scholarship largely in the humanities and humanistic social sciences that emphasize digital tools and infrastructure, as well as accompanying expertise and support.
    • jatolbert
      jatolbert on 08 Jun 17
       
      Why is it "largely in the humanities and humanistic social sciences"? I don't buy this.
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