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Darcy Goshorn

No Dentist Left Behind - 4 views

www.trelease-on-reading.com/no-dentist.html

NCLB nochildleftbehind humor satire teachers politics for:cffcoach

shared by Darcy Goshorn on 06 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 06 Jun 10
     
    "John Taylor, retired superintendent of schools in Lancaster, S.C., offers this history of the above essay which he wrote while leading that district: "The parody was originally titled 'Absolutely the Best Dentists.' It was written and sent to every newspaper and legislator in South Carolina a number of years ago in an attempt to point out the absurdities inherent in South Carolina's then new accountability act which was focused on 'absolute' performance and threatened retention for every child who couldn't meet very challenging grade level standards. (Not to mention severe penalties for 'poorly performing' schools, teachers ands administrators.) Since then it has traveled widely to the point that I have not been able to keep up with the uses; but I know it has appeared in teacher association publications in at least three Canadian Provinces and in Australia, as well as dozens in the USA. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) seems to have given the story a new life." Thus: No Dentist Left Behind. The essay remains on the Lancaster County School District's Web site."
anonymous

A Must See | Faint of Heart Need Not Apply - 12 views

teacherbyday.wordpress.com/...a-must-see

nclb video

shared by anonymous on 30 Aug 10 - Cached
  • anonymous on 30 Aug 10
     
    Shared tonight on twitter. Interesting video re: NCLB vs Globalization
Ty Yost

Beyond NCLB and AYP - 0 views

www.hepg.org/654

4r's 1to1 Freedom

shared by Ty Yost on 28 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Ty Yost on 28 Apr 09
     
    Framing the discussion in terms of his district's reform model - the "New 4 Rs" of rigor, relevance, relationships, and reflection - Sofo describes how one middle school developed a multifaceted, classroom-level intervention to support struggling learners.
anonymous

Be Very Afraid - 0 views

www.heppell.net/default.htm

technology education

shared by anonymous on 26 Apr 09 - Cached
  • anonymous on 26 Apr 09
     
    What struck me immediately was the kind of work that the kids were doing. Again, I was caught in the thought, "Boy, do we ever underestimate what kids can do." Of course, this is not a school with NCLB requirements hanging over it, and that sure helps.
  • anonymous on 26 Apr 09
     
    Watch videos of children talking about their projects.
Michelle Krill

Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow - 0 views

www.alfiekohn.org/...testtoday.htm

kohn NCLB standards critical

shared by Michelle Krill on 28 Aug 09 - Cached
  • But the word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
  • But the word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
  • But the word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
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  • But the word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
  • The clarity of language be damned: They come to bury a given institution rather than to improve it, but they describe their mission as “reform.”
  • It’s a very clever gambit, you have to admit. Either you’re in favor of privatization or else you are inexplicably satisfied with mediocrity.
  • there’s plenty of room for dissatisfaction with the current state of our schools. An awful lot is wrong with them: the way conformity is valued over curiosity and enforced with rewards and punishments, the way children are compelled to compete against one another, the way curriculum so often privileges skills over meaning, the way students are prevented from designing their own learning, the way instruction and assessment are increasingly standardized, the way different avenues of study are rarely integrated, the way educators are systematically deskilled .
  • To that extent, even if privatization worked exactly the way it was supposed to, we shouldn’t expect any of the defects I’ve just listed to be corrected.
  • Making schools resemble businesses often results in a kind of pedagogy that’s not merely conservative but reactionary, turning back the clock on the few changes that have managed to infiltrate and improve classrooms.
  • ut an attack on schooling as we know it is generally grounded in politics rather than pedagogy, and is most energetically advanced by those who despise not just public schools but all public institutions.
  • Michelle Krill on 28 Aug 09
     
    Using Accountability to "Reform" Public Schools to Death
Darcy Goshorn

Doing What Works - 5 views

dww.ed.gov

education research resources NCLB teaching government professional pd for:cffcoach

shared by Darcy Goshorn on 14 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Darcy Goshorn on 14 Dec 09
     
    A federal gov't portal for educators, admins, etc to find "research-based education practices"
  • Darcy Goshorn on 14 Dec 09
     
    Well it sure ain't SAS...
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