As a result, we’ve wasted 15 years avoiding incremental improvement, and instead trying to upend a reasonably successful school system.
But the reason it hasn’t narrowed is that your profession has done too good a job — you’ve improved white children’s performance as well, so the score gap persists, but at a higher level for all.
Policymakers, pundits, and politicians ignore these gains; they conclude that you, educators, have been incompetent because the test score gap hasn’t much narrowed.
If you believe public education deserves greater support, as I do, you will have to boast about your accomplishments, because voters are more likely to aid a successful institution than a collapsing one.
In short, underemployment of parents is not only an economic crisis — it is an educational crisis. You cannot ignore it and be good educators.
equally important educational goals — citizenship, character, appreciation of the arts and music, physical fitness and health, and knowledge of history, the sciences, and literature.
If you have high expectations, your students can succeed regardless of parents’ economic circumstances.
That is nonsense.
health insurance; children are less likely to get routine and preventive care that middle class children take for granted
If they can’t see because they don’t get glasses to correct vision difficulties, high expectations can’t teach them to read.
Because education has become so politicized, with policy made by those with preconceptions of failure and little understanding of the educational process, you are entering a field that has become obsessed with evaluating only results that are easy to measure, rather than those that are most important. But as Albert Einstein once said, not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted, counts.
To be good educators, you must step up your activity not only in the classroom, but as citizens. You must speak up in the public arena, challenging those policymakers who will accuse you only of making excuses when you speak the truth that children who are hungry, mobile, and stressed, cannot learn as easily as those who are comfortable.
An important read for anyone who truly wants to understand what's really important in education and the false reform strategies of our current (and past) administration.
However, this investigation does present a promising music-assisted
treatment approach.
Factors contributing to the lack of findings from the cognitive
measures included small sample size and inconsequential performance
conditions. The results of this pilot study found a non-statistically
significant trend in reduced cognitive symptoms of anxiety.
. Though relaxation training home-practice was
monitored informally (i.e., via review of relaxation record sheets), a more
formal record of compliance data would have helped to determine the impact of
treatment adherence on treatment outcome.
Martin van Hemert is a photographer based in Utah. He is actively involved in architectural, product, and fine art photography. Throughout his career, he has consistently been drawn to more labor intensive forms of the art, from baking films in hydrogen for astronomical photography, to long exposures and light painting of outdoor scenes photographed on 4×5 sheet films, to his current obsession with spherical panoramas. Born to a family of Dutch immigrants, he studied music at the University of Utah, following which he made the logical choice of a career in photography. Martin and his wife are the parents of three grown children and one un-grown grandchild, and live in rural Utah County with a small herd of horses. Their rodent control staff boasts 7 members.
The promise of the Common Core is dying and teaching and learning are being distorted. The well that should sustain the Core has been poisoned.
Whether or not learning the word ‘commission’ is appropriate for second graders could be debated—I personally think it is a bit over the top. What is of deeper concern, however, is that during a time when 7 year olds should be listening to and making music, they are instead taking a vocabulary quiz.
Real learning occurs in the mind of the learner when she makes connections with prior learning, makes meaning, and retains that knowledge in order to create additional meaning from new information. In short, with tests we see traces of learning, not learning itself.
Teachers are engaged in practices like these because they are pressured and afraid, not because they think the assessments are educationally sound. Their principals are pressured and nervous about their own scores and the school’s scores. Guaranteed, every child in the class feels that pressure and trepidation as well.
I am troubled that a company that has a multi-million dollar contract to create tests for the state should also be able to profit from producing test prep materials. I am even more deeply troubled that this wonderful little girl, whom I have known since she was born, is being subject to this distortion of what her primary education should be.
The Common Core places an extraordinary emphasis on vocabulary development
Parents can expect that the other three will be neglected as teachers frantically try to prepare students for the difficult and high-stakes tests.
They see data, not children.
Data should be used as a strategy for improvement, not for accountability
A fool with a tool is still a fool. A fool with a powerful tool is a dangerous fool.
During the last
six or so years I have created a number of 'how-to' documents and presentations
for a variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from the
various workshop web pages however I thought it might prove helpful to link to
all the documents from a single page. Some of my workshop participants have referred to
these documents as 'cheat sheets'.
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During the last
six or so
years I have created a number of 'how-to' documents and presentations
for a
variety of web based and related technologies. They are available from
the
various workshop web pages however I
thought it might prove helpful to link to
all the
documents
from a single page. Some of my workshop participants have referred to
these
documents as 'cheat sheets'.
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A federal jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday ordered singers Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay about $7.4 million to the family of Marvin Gaye, after finding the duo’s 2013 hit song “Blurred Lines” copied parts of Mr. Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up.”
Attribution and intellectual property are a real concern for everyone. Remixing ideas is not a new practice, but in the 21st century it is easier than ever. How do we help prepare our students for careers in the 21st century?
only to compare “Blurred Lines” to the sheet music composition of “Got to Give it Up.” So the jury only heard a stripped down version of Mr. Gaye’s song, with his lyrics over a bass line and keyboards.
Attribution and intellectual property are a real concern for everyone. Remixing ideas is not a new practice, but in the 21st century it is easier than ever. How do we help prepare our students for careers in the 21st century?
From the arts to science, remixing and building upon the ideas of those who came before you is not new. In fact, it is a necessary practice that feeds the progress of our world. Now musicians are haunted by this ghost of copyright.
How can we develop and model practices for our students that celebrate the history of attribution and the growth of ideas?
Can we elevate the student dreaded practices of citation and attribution to an act of reverence and respect?
From the arts to science, remixing and building upon the ideas of those who came before you is not new. In fact, it is a necessary practice that feeds the progress of our world. Now musicians are haunted by this ghost of copyright.
How can we develop and model practices for our students that celebrate the history of attribution and the growth of ideas?
Can we elevate the student dreaded practices of citation and attribution to an act of reverence and respect?
It will cause people who want to want to evoke the past to perhaps refrain from doing so
From the arts to science, remixing and building upon the ideas of those who came before you is not new. In fact, it is a necessary practice that feeds the progress of our world. Now musicians are haunted by this ghost of copyright.
How can we develop and model practices for our students that celebrate the history of attribution and the growth of ideas?
Can we elevate the student dreaded practices of citation and attribution to an act of reverence and respect?
From the arts to science, remixing and building upon the ideas of those who came before you is not new. In fact, it is a necessary practice that feeds the progress of our world. Now musicians are haunted by this ghost of copyright.
How can we develop and model practices for our students that celebrate the history of attribution and the growth of ideas?
Can we elevate the student dreaded practices of citation and attribution to an act of reverence and respect?