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Bradford Saron

The Wisconsin Vision - 4 views

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vision education leadership technology

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  • Bradford Saron on 23 Nov 10
     
    This is the report published by the Wisconsin School Administrators' Alliance in the summer of 2010 (I think). Check out the part on A Visionary Tale on page 9. Hat-tip to Mary Bowen-Eggebraaten for forwarding this piece on to me.
  • Deb Gurke on 24 Nov 10
     
    Very nice. AND, as the report indicates, leadership and community need to be included. This means you need the school board to play a role. They are the conduit to the community. Public education has been down the transformation road before. In some ways we are not inventing anything new here. John Dewey championed experiential learning as the public education system developed a century ago. Progressive educators tried in the 1930s and 1960s to introduce experiential learning into the system. The grammar of schooling, the deep structure, the notion of "real school" all pull the system back into the status quo. We need to remain cognizant of these dynamics and consider how to address them if we want to see the promise of the ideas contained in this report become a reality. You have to connect the ideas outlined in this report to the notion of collective impact. I think this idea is key to seeing a different outcome: http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/2197/
  • Deb Gurke on 24 Nov 10
     
    I want to be clear: I am a supporter of the ideas contained in the Wisconsin Vision report. I also want to be sure we take a realists view of how to make it happen. I do not want to see this effort and the ideas of CESAs 1 and 6, wind up in the history books like past transformation efforts.
Bradford Saron

http://mckinseyonsociety.com/downloads/reports/Education/Education_Intro_Standalone_Nov... - 2 views

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dufour systems

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  • Bradford Saron on 23 Feb 12
     
    DuFour frequently cites this report. 
Bradford Saron

What do international tests really show about U.S. student performance? | Economic Poli... - 2 views

www.epi.org/...us-student-performance-testing

policy performance tests international

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  • Secretary Duncan said, U.S. educational reform policy is motivated by a belief that the U.S. educational system is particularly failing disadvantaged children. Yet an analysis of international test score levels and trends shows that in important ways disadvantaged U.S. children perform better, relative to children in comparable nations, than do middle-class and advantaged children. More careful analysis of these levels and trends may lead policymakers to reconsider their assumption that almost all improvement efforts should be directed to the education of disadvantaged children and few such efforts to the education of middle-class and advantaged children
  • A re-estimated U.S. average PISA score that adjusted for a student population in the United States that is more disadvantaged than populations in otherwise similar post-industrial countries, and for the over-sampling of students from the most-disadvantaged schools in a recent U.S. international assessment sample, finds that the U.S. average score in both reading and mathematics would be higher than official reports indicate (in the case of mathematics, substantially higher).
  • Disadvantaged and lower-middle-class U.S. students perform better (and in most cases, substantially better) than comparable students in similar post-industrial countries in reading. In math, disadvantaged and lower-middle-class U.S. students perform about the same as comparable students in similar post-industrial countries.
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  • This re-estimate would also improve the U.S. place in the international ranking of all OECD countries, bringing the U.S. average score to sixth in reading and 13th in math. Conventional ranking reports based on PISA, which make no adjustments for social class composition or for sampling errors, and which rank countries irrespective of whether score differences are large enough to be meaningful, report that the U.S. average score is 14th in reading and 25th in math.
  • To make judgments only on the basis of national average scores, on only one test, at only one point in time, without comparing trends on different tests that purport to measure the same thing, and without disaggregation by social class groups, is the worst possible choice. But, unfortunately, this is how most policymakers and analysts approach the field.
  • Bradford Saron on 01 Mar 13
     
    A must read. 
Bradford Saron

The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning-Report - 0 views

www.innosightinstitute.org/...e-of-K-12-Blended-Learning.pdf

education onlinelearning blendedlearning elearning

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  • Bradford Saron on 21 Dec 11
     
    According to this report, all we have to do to "fix" education and reform for kids is to, adopt Apex Learning as our content provider, adopt PowerSchool as our SIS, adopt Blackboard as our MIS and online grade-book, and adopt NWEA MAP as our assessment tool. See, problem solved. 
Curt Rees

Report busts myth that U.S. class time is much lower than that of high-performing natio... - 0 views

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  • Curt Rees on 05 Jan 12
     
    busting the myth that the US has less instructional hours than other countries
Bradford Saron

What Does Technoratis State of the Blogosphere Report Mean for Education Bloggers? - Th... - 1 views

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technoratis blogging social media

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  • Almost half of all content consumers surveyed by Technorati trust traditional media sources less than they did five years ago
  • Equally interesting is the fact that almost 50% of content consumers surveyed by Technorati trust the content that they’re finding on blogs—a number that rivals the 60% of content consumers who trust the content they find in print newspapers, television broadcasts and radio programming.
  • 60% of all bloggers surveyed spend between 1 and 3 hours per week working on their blogs—and the average blogger posts new content to their site 2-3 times per week.
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  • mobile blogging is becoming more and more popular. 
  • If those kinds of trends continue—or start to find their way into the edusphere—that can only mean two things: Blog content will continue to play an important role in driving conversations in all fields. My own content could be drowned out, lost in the sea of posts being published by writers who are investing more time than I am in their blogs.
  • The lines are blurring between the blogosphere and social media spaces like Facebook and Twitter:
  • Bloggers spend more time interacting in social media spaces than the average American.
  • Bradford Saron on 11 Nov 10
     
    Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. The article blends well with Clay Shirky's analysis of the death of print. This is why. 
Bradford Saron

Americas Promise Alliance - Building a Grad Nation - 0 views

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graduation 95_5 aasa

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  • Bradford Saron on 07 Dec 10
     
    This is the report that indicates that progress is being made on the national drop out rate. 
Bradford Saron

AASA :: 95 by 5 Dilemma - 0 views

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aasa 95_5

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  • Bradford Saron on 07 Dec 10
     
    5% of our schools are failing, and according to a new report, progress is being made!
Bradford Saron

Openleaks? Brusselsleaks? Tradeleaks? The market's getting crowded | Media | guardian.c... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...eaks-tradeleaks-whistleblowing

transparency open_records

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  • Bradford Saron on 16 Dec 10
     
    Indeed, this is not about education, but it is about the age of the disaggregation of power and mass transparency. To a large extent, because of open records laws, we've been dealing with public decision making for some time. Do you think this new trend with accelerate our movement toward total transparency? Have you ever seen Michigan's Budget and Salary Compensation Transparency Reporting Law? 
Bradford Saron

Social Media & Public Relations - 5 Reports - Online Marketing Blog - 3 views

www.toprankblog.com/...-social-media-public-relations

media social public technology community innovation

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  • Bradford Saron on 06 Jan 11
     
    Must read. 
Bradford Saron

How the world's most improved school systems keep getting better - 0 views

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school innovation

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  • Bradford Saron on 05 Jan 11
     
    A new report (globally oriented) on how the best school systems still have the capacity for even more improvement and agility to solve problems. 
Bradford Saron

Learning In The Future - Exploring Five Themes | Upside Learning Blog - 0 views

www.upsidelearning.com/...e-future-exploring-five-themes

future learning predictions

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  • Bradford Saron on 02 Jun 11
     
    Great article, although a bit different than the Horizon report. Why do you think the predictions are different? Which are most legitimate? 
Bradford Saron

Chris Hedges: Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System - Chris Hedges' ... - 0 views

www.truthdig.com/..._her_education_system_20110410

education edreform

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  • A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems managers. It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs.
  • Bradford Saron on 20 Jan 12
     
    Via @mcleod
Bradford Saron

A national report card of school funding. - 1 views

www.schoolfundingfairness.org/executivesummary.htm

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  • Bradford Saron on 18 Oct 10
     
    Wisconsin earned a B. 
Bradford Saron

Smartphones and Tablets Will Take Over in 2011, Researchers Say - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • “The PC-centric era is over,” the IDC report says. Within 18 months, it forecasts, non-PC devices capable of running software applications will outsell PCs. In tablets, IDC adds, Apple’s iPad will remain the leader, but lower-cost tablets will begin making inroads, especially as demand for tablets really takes off in emerging markets.
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      Bradford Saron on 05 Jan 11
       
      Just posted a video on mobile devices in 2010!
  • Bradford Saron on 04 Dec 10
     
    1:1, personalized.
Bradford Saron

The social side of the internet | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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social_media

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  • The internet is now deeply embedded in group and organizational life in America.
  • 80% of internet users participate in groups, compared with 56% of non-internet users. And social media users are even more likely to be active: 82% of social network users and 85% of Twitter users are group participants. 
  • 60% of all Americans said the internet has had a major impact on the ability of groups to connect with other groups.
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  • 49% of all Americans said the internet has had a major impact on the ability of groups to impact local communities.
  • 41% of these internet-using active group members say the internet has had a major impact on their ability to organize activities for their groups
  • 24% of these internet-using active group members say the internet has had a major impact on their ability to volunteer their time to groups
  • Bradford Saron on 25 Jan 11
     
    Covering the extent to which social media is integrated into almost every part of our personal and professional lives. 
dennis dervetski

The DNA of the Principalship: Conflict and Guilt in the Genetic Code | Larry Cuban on S... - 0 views

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Dna

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  • Principals have always been hired to administer schools. Superintendents expect their principals to set priorities consistent with district goals, use data for decision making, plan and schedule work of the school, oversee the budget and many other managerial tasks—including punctual submission of reports to the central office. Currently, efforts by some
  • dennis dervetski on 23 Mar 11
     
    principal
Bradford Saron

Cognitive Interfund Transfer: What's on the "Horizon" - 0 views

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Horizon report

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  • Bradford Saron on 09 May 11
     
    New post. 
Bradford Saron

Will Richardson: Have Our Schools Reached Their Limits? - 0 views

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technology schools

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  • Have we reached the limits of our traditional school system's capacity to deal with the diversity of learners that come into our schools today?
  • To do this we need to shift our thinking from a goal that focuses on the delivery of something -- a primary education -- to a goal that is about empowering our young people to leverage their innate and natural curiosity to learn whatever and whenever they need to. The goal is about eliminating obstacles to the exercise of this right -- whether the obstacle is the structure and scheduling of the school day, the narrow divisions of subject, the arbitrary separation of learners by age, or others -- rather than supplying or rearranging resources. The shift is extremely powerful...
  • We can see an emerging crisis in our schools, while, on the other hand, we see a renaissance for learning. The question then simply becomes: would a completely different perspective that builds on the latter, be a more productive focus for us than the continued, largely unproductive, public debate around the former?
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  • Instead of seeing the non-face-to-face learning space as one of a compromised experience, we surely need to recognize and explore without fear the new and, in many ways, more profound pedagogical opportunities the virtual space opens; opportunities that will challenge and possibly even undermine our traditional perspectives around effective teaching and learning.
  • I agree with the premise of the report: if we continue to place our energy toward "fixing the system," literally millions of kids will be under-served in the process. Instead, what if we put a laser-like focus on improving real student learning, not test scores? (And yes, the two are decidedly different.)
  • Let's start talking about how we can begin to deliver more personalized, relevant learning to kids right now. Let's rethink our definitions of teacher and classroom and school, in some profound, albeit, radical ways. Let's deeply consider the affordances that technologies bring to the learning equation, despite being made decidedly uncomfortable by those potentials in some big ways.
  • Bradford Saron on 02 May 11
     
    Yikes. Read this over. What do you think? 
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