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Education Archive at The Atlantic - 2 views

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  • Laura Shaw on 07 Aug 11
     
    The Atlantic essays assembled here dramatically illustrate the pendulum swings between two extreme perspectives of role of public schooling.
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How Connecticut Diffused the Parent Trigger - 1 views

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    AFT Document on Parent Trigger law.
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Observing emotional interactions between teachers and students in elementary school cla... - 0 views

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    The investigation focused on how teachers manage emotional events and, in particular, what positive strategies they use while doing so. A total of 60 hours of observation took place in the classrooms of six teachers who had been nominated for having exceptional positive classroom environments. These observations were reduced to prominent themes: (1) fostering classroom relationships, (2) setting and managing emotional guidelines, (3) being emotionally aware, and (4) managing emotional situations. The study provided support for Harvey and Evans' (2003) model of the classroom emotional climate.
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Suzanne Tacheny Kubach: Let's "Save" What Matters Most: Students - 0 views

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  • The SOS campaign seems more about catharsis, with vague and mostly platitudinous principles, rather than a strategy offering a specific, alternative vision for school improvement
  • basic aim
  • increase public funding through a campaign to roll back accountability
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  • streams excuses for the status quo
  • teachers near the top of the quality distribution
  • Hanushek's data refutes the claim that schools are powerless to overcome family circumstances
  • if a student has three years in a row of great teaching, that experience will overcome the average achievement deficit between low-income kids and their more well-off peers
  • Most of the policies that govern teachers and teaching treat all teachers as if they are the same. (For more on this, read The Widget Effect.)
  • backers of this rally don't want parents or the public to have the kinds of data that enable parents or school leaders to distinguish who these great teachers are
  • rally's only really specific principle calls for an end to the use of student assessment for any decisions of consequence
  • effective testing and data enable school leaders to identify what's not working so they can make sure that students and teachers get the support and resources they need to succeed
  • Children in this country have a right to a quality education -- but the public schools don't have a right to every child!
  • We use information to expose achievement gaps and other systematic inequities that work against that promise so that action can be taken to fix those problems before they destroy kids lives.
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Wakeup Call For The Gates Foundation: Think Bigger! - Steve Denning - RETHINK - Forbes - 0 views

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shared by Laura Shaw on 29 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Schools practicing this new culture of learning don’t t have to be invented. As pointed out by my colleague, Daniel Petter-Lipstein, the new culture of learning takes place in thousands of Montessori classrooms every day, as noted in his marvelous article, “Superwoman Was Already Here“ “The Montessori method cares far more about the inquiry process and less about the results of those inquiries, believing that children will eventually master–with the guidance of their teachers and the engaged use of the hands-on Montessori materials which control for error–the expected answers and results that are the focus of most traditional classroom activity.” Ironically, Bill Gates himself is a product of the Montessori system, so he should be intimately familiar with it.
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