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
Education Archive at The Atlantic - 2 views
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The Atlantic essays assembled here dramatically illustrate the pendulum swings between two extreme perspectives of role of public schooling.
Detroit Public Schools Buys $40,000 SUV For Roy Roberts Despite Massive Budget Deficit - 1 views
Shared Tools for Teachers? There's an App for That! - Impatient Optimists - 1 views
FearLess Revolution - FearLess Blog - The U.S. Congressional Twitter Directory - 0 views
Schools Matter: Dept of Education reassures the public about funding: The new tests wil... - 0 views
How Connecticut Diffused the Parent Trigger - 1 views
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AFT Document on Parent Trigger law.
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.
Suzanne Tacheny Kubach: Let's "Save" What Matters Most: Students - 0 views
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basic aim
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increase public funding through a campaign to roll back accountability
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Wakeup Call For The Gates Foundation: Think Bigger! - Steve Denning - RETHINK - Forbes - 0 views
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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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