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Vince Breunig

Effects of Inequality and Poverty vs. Teachers and Schooling on America's Youth - 0 views

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Poverty edreform inequality

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  • What does it take to get politicians and the general public to abandon misleading ideas, such as, “Anyone who tries can pull themselves up by the bootstraps,” or that “Teachers are the most important factor in determining the achievement of our youth”? Many ordinary citizens and politicians believe these statements to be true, even though life and research informs us that such statements are usually not true.
  • till further discouraging news for those who advocate testing as a way to reform schools comes from the PISA assessments (The Program for International Student Assessment). Nations with high-stakes testing have generally gone down in scores from 2000 to 2003, and then again by 2006. Finland, on the other hand, which has no high-stakes testing, and an accountability system that relies on teacher judgment and school level professionalism much more than tests, has shown growth over these three PISA administrations (Sahlberg, 2011).
  • Now, in the USA, our parents are a greater determiner of our income in life than either our weight or our height.
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  • what the best and wisest parents want for their children should be what we want for all children. Thus, that same kind of opportunity to catch up in school should not be denied to youth who come from poorer families
  • citizens calling for school reform without thinking about economic and social reforms are probably being foolish. The likelihood of affecting school achievement positively is more likely to be found in economic and social reforms, in the second bill of rights, than it is in NCLB, the common core of standards, early childhood and many assessments after that, value-added assessments, and the like. More than educational policies are needed to improve education.
  • I think everyone in the USA, of any political party, understands that poverty hurts families and affects student performance at the schools their children attend. But the bigger problem for our political leaders and citizens to recognize is that inequality hurts everyone in society, the wealthy and the poor alike. History teaches us that when income inequalities are large, they are tolerated by the poor for only so long. Then there is an eruption, and it is often bloody! Both logic and research suggest that economic policies that reduce income inequality throughout the United States are quite likely to improve education a lot, but even more than that, such policies might once again establish this nation as a beacon on a hill, and not merely a light that shines for some, but not for all of our citizens.
  • Vince Breunig on 22 Oct 12
     
    What does it take to get politicians and the general public to abandon misleading ideas, such as, "Anyone who tries can pull themselves up by the bootstraps," or that "Teachers are the most important factor in determining the achievement of our youth"? Many ordinary citizens and politicians believe these statements to be true, even though life and research informs us that such statements are usually not true. citizens calling for school reform without thinking about economic and social reforms are probably being foolish. The likelihood of affecting school achievement positively is more likely to be found in economic and social reforms, in the second bill of rights, than it is in NCLB, the common core of standards, early childhood and many assessments after that, value-added assessments, and the like. More than educational policies are needed to improve education.
Vince Breunig

'A statement of our just grievances' - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 1 views

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policy quarterback teachers factors

shared by Vince Breunig on 29 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • t doesn’t take a great quarterback rating to win games; it takes a team effort. Have the elected officials in Austin m
  • Vince Breunig on 29 Apr 12
     
    If the teacher is the quarterback, Congress is the offensive line. Their performance impacts our performance, but they keep letting us get sacked by poverty, broken homes, student mobility, hunger, health care. And they just say "Oops" as that linebacker blows by them and buries his facemask in our chest. Then we get back to the huddle and they say, "You gotta complete your passes." We're aware of that. Make your blocks, legislators. Give us time to stand in the pocket and throw good passes. Do your job. It doesn't take a great quarterback rating to win games; it takes a team effort.
Bradford Saron

Learning from Finland - The Boston Globe - 1 views

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education finland

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  • Bradford Saron on 29 Dec 10
     
    Yes, yes, yes, but Finland is largely homogeneous, is the geographical size of Minnesota, has little transiency, and has a significantly different national poverty level (with less range of haves and have-nots). 
  • Guy Leavitt on 29 Dec 10
     
    It's a great statement about how a country values education. I think teachers in Finland are compensated very well and are also respected like our teachers were about 30 years ago. It will be interesting to see how their system changes as their population becomes more diverse.
Bradford Saron

Why Is Congress Redlining Our Schools? | The Nation - 0 views

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redlining INEQUALITY segregation openenrollment

shared by Bradford Saron on 16 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • he racial and economic segregation that sets the stage for redlining is now firmly in place.
  • this poverty is concentrated in increasingly resegregated communities and schools.
  • The schools identified as low-performing not only serve a growing underclass of impoverished families;
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  • These disparities in school funding also lead to disparities in salaries and working conditions, which create shortages of qualified personnel in high-need districts.
  • Bradford Saron on 16 Jan 12
     
    Look at this and replace "redlining" with open enrollment. Thoughts? 
Bradford Saron

Brain scan: Making data dance | The Economist - 0 views

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Hans_Rosling data

shared by Bradford Saron on 13 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • “THE biggest myth is that if we save all the poor kids, we will destroy the planet,” says Hans Rosling
  • that it no longer makes sense to consider the world as divided between developing and industrialised countries; and that people everywhere respond similarly to increasing levels of wealth and health, with higher material aspirations and smaller families.
  • The best measure of political stability of a country, he believes, is whether fertility rates are falling, because that indicates that women are being educated and basic health services are being provided.
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  • Within a year Google had bought Gapminder, and a version of the bubble-graph software is now available free online under the name Google Motion Chart.
  • Do the data give any sneak previews of our future? “For most of human history, the world has been dominated by Asia, and it will be again within 40 years,” he says. “While nothing now can stop the surge to 9 billion, if the poorest 2 billion get improved child survival and the ability to buy bicycles and mobile phones, population growth will stop. We cannot have people at this level looking for basics like food and shoes. Lower-middle-income countries will also forge forward—but only if we invest in the right technologies to avoid severe climate change.”
  • “We can stop population growth, we can eradicate poverty, we can solve the energy and the climate issues but we have to make the right investments,” he says. “I know a good world is possible if we leave emotion aside and just work analytically.”
  • Bradford Saron on 13 Dec 10
     
    The data minded Hans Rosling allows us to peek into his mind and how he approaches the presentation of data and how we can learn from it. I love his approach to change: "Leave emotion aside, and just work analytically." 
ron saari

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teacher bashing

shared by ron saari on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • fair ways of assessing classroom effectiveness that include test scores but go far beyond these limited numbers. Such sane efforts, however, get forgotten in the wake of wave after wave of anti-teacher union tirades.
  • In doing so, they have narrowed the role of schools to being an arm of the economy reinforcing the fiction that all U.S. schools, not just urban ones, are lousy and that “effective” teachers and schools can solve poverty, put every kid into college, and end the skills gap with international competitors.
  • ron saari on 23 Mar 11
     
    A good article about teachers and unions
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