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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  Terribly generalized.
  
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treated accordingly.
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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  Mistreated accordingly.
  
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Students were tracked into the various curricula based largely on IQ but sometimes other factors such as race and skin color.
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public schools have done away with "tracking"
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deemed low achievers or of low cognitive ability?
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Jonathan Kozol brought accusations against a system they found racist and sadistic.
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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  He condemns a lot more than the eduction system. His approach to reform is much more like Finland's, holistic.
  
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to restore equity to
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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  As if it ever existed?!
  
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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  This is an essential issue. Are we doing it well?
  
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Kozol and others did not go away, and the progressive watchword in education has continued to be "equality."
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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  I never knew that equality had such a nasty undertone to it.
  
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-- a practice viewed by many in the education establishment as synonymous with tracking
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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  It is "tracking." I'm not sure what his point is here.
  
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Unfortunately, the efforts and philosophies of otherwise well-meaning individuals have attempted to eliminate the achievement gap by eliminating achievement.
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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  Again, a nasty generalization. Not only that, but the following practices he cites aren't products of heterogeneous grouping.
  
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In other words, the elimination of ability grouping has become a tracking system in itself that leaves many students behind.
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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  Now he's just not making sense.
  
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Dallas Independent School District
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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  Ed research from Texas?? They want to teach evolution in science classes.
  
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The rise of computer-aided learning might make it easier for them to instruct students who learn at different rates.
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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  Is this a for or against grouping statement?
  
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this enables students placed in lower-ability classes to advance to higher-ability classes based on their performance and progress.
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- David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13
  
  Practices do not support this assertion. Upward trajectory is very limited.
  
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David Hochheiser on 30 Mar 13

"Mark Bowden on Being in the Slow Kids' Class"

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Annie Murphy Paul on Why 'Digital Literacy' Can't Replace The Traditional Kind | TIME.com - 117 views

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shared by Matt Renwick on 07 Apr 13 - No Cached

- Matt Renwick on 07 Apr 13
  
  The F-pattern when reading online could have been helpful for the reader in this article.
  
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Bernard Cooperman on 08 Apr 13

Both the author of the article and the people she criticizes are making a fundamental mistake. It is an illusion that kids once learned facts in some deeper way. If the tree octopus had been presented in a book, the kids would have made the same mistake. Much of traditional teaching was not about absorbing certain facts but about learning techniques for accessing those facts. The internet and google really have changed the way we access information. The real challenge is how to restructure knowledge itself to take advantage of the new forms of accessibility. And as for using technology in the classroom: banning computers is like forcing kids to memorize arithmetic tables in an age when everyone has a calculator. We don't need slide rules nor an abacus and there is no reason to teach kids how to use them.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Both the author of the article and the people she criticizes are making a fundamental mistake. It is an illusion that kids once learned facts in some deeper way. If the tree octopus had been presented in a book, the kids would have made the same mistake. Much of traditional teaching was not about absorbing certain facts but about learning techniques for accessing those facts. The internet and google really have changed the way we access information. The real challenge is how to restructure knowledge itself to take advantage of the new forms of accessibility. And as for using technology in the classroom: banning computers is like forcing kids to memorize arithmetic tables in an age when everyone has a calculator. We don't need slide rules nor an abacus and there is no reason to teach kids how to use them.</div>

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Andy Kessler: Professors Are About to Get an Online Education - WSJ.com - 2 views

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For the same $7,000 a year that New York City spends per student on school buses, you can now get a master's from one of the most well-respected programs in the country.
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Students who worked with online content passed at a higher rate than classroom-only students, 91% to 60%
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Today's job market—whether you're designing new drugs, fracking for oil, writing mobile apps or marketing Pop Chips—requires graduates who can think strategically in real time, have strong cognitive skills, see patterns, work in groups and know their way around highly visual virtual environments. This is the same generation that grew up playing online games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, but who are almost never asked to use their online skills in any classroom.
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Online education is about taking the "best in class" teachers and scaling them to thousands or millions of students rather than 25-30 at a time.
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De-grade your classroom with narrative feedback SmartBlogs - 132 views

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shared by mswanty on 31 Dec 12 - No Cached

Grades, conversely, discourage learning, as students either feel like failures upon receiving low marks or have a falsely-inflated sense of accomplishment based on high marks, which are almost always subjective.
- mswanty on 02 Jan 13
  
  Do students feel this way?
  
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SE2R — Summarize, Explain, Redirect and Resubmit
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Since disdaining grades in favor of narrative feedback, I spend much more time doing what my colleagues call grading. I evaluate and re-evaluate student work daily. Project feedback is ongoing. I have 120 students so I’m writing seemingly all of the time. I’m often asked by teachers and friends, “Isn’t it a lot of work?”  Definitely. Would I ever return to traditional grading? Never.
- mswanty on 02 Jan 13
  
  So narrative grading takes more time, but it is worth it. I am still wondering what he puts on the report card...
  
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- Brianna Crowley on 02 Jan 13
  
  Me too! I commented on this article with some of my own reservations or obstacles with implementing this in my own classroom.
  
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