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EDSITEment - Lesson Plan - 0 views
Ending America's 'race to the bottom' - International Herald Tribune - 0 views
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Interestingly, KY is looking to get rid of their sophisticated examinations because of political pressure, lack of comparibility, and $. In the 90s KY was a leader in attempting to change assessment and accountability, but for a plethora of reasons has fallen back in line. Not trying to be negative, but recognize the difficulty in the challenge and hope he's up to it.
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Once charter schools have opened, it becomes politically difficult to close them, even in cases where they are bad or worse than their traditional counterparts.
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Ed, great example of how not to structure the change. Open more charter schools, make them have a 5 year evaluation plan, have an accountability plan in place that allows the school to stay true to their ideal, make changes that they feel will help them achieve their goals, even allow them additional time if results warrant, and then HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE. If they can't show they haven't at least held their own, then close them, but make that part of the evaluation plan from the beginning. The rub of that plan is that you can't hold them accountable at a level that you aren't going to hold everybody else to. What about traditional schools that aren't working, what do you do with those schools? Isn't that one of the big knocks on NCLB that they are 'being taken over' because of some testing system?
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Congress will need to broaden and sustain those reforms in the upcoming reauthorization of the No Child Left Behind Act.
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Why reauthorize? Why not tear it up and write something better?
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I disagree with tearing it up and starting over, isn't that what we do in education? Try something it doesn't work (for lots of reasons, including lack of implementation), and move on to the next shiny thing. Why not analyze the program, identify the aspects that have shown efficacy, identify the aspects that haven't achieved their goals, make changes that are informed and researchable, put them in place and hold people accountable for implementing. I think NCLB was well intentioned and represented the best thinking of a group of people (in education as in many areas i don't think you can say it represents the best thinking of everyone). I just don't like the idea of letting everyone off the hook by starting over. I believe it reinforces the concept that I don't have to worry about this project because it too will pass.
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Paperless Tiger « buckenglish - 0 views
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Does this jettisoning of time-honored titles mean that the paperless classroom is also lacking a creator, controller and grader? Is the paperless classroom also a teacherless paradigm? The answer is in some regards, yes. I have removed myself from center stage. I have relinquished the need to control every class. I have stopped seeing work as stagnant…completed and submitted by students and then graded by me. I have let go of my need to pre-plan months at a time, in favor of following the path that unfolds as we learn together. My classes are not, however, teacherless, just less about the teaching and more about the learning. The students know that I am ready and willing to be student to their insights, that they can teach, create, control and even evaluate their own learning.
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In the absence of my control, the students have many choices to make
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Teachers often say that modern students are lazy. I have long felt that as the shifting winds of technology began to gain force, we teachers were the ones who were unwilling to do the work of rethinking our roles and meeting the students were they were learning already. Rethinking paper as the primary tool of class is a step in the right direction because it forces a rethinking of the how and why of teaching and learning.
Building Word Trees - 0 views
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Word trees are a way to categorize search terms when planning research. This offers sample trees, ideas for creating a tree, and a blank tree to work with when planning a search strategy.
Open the Future: Flunking Out - 0 views
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This is about as close to getting it wrong as I could imagine.
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Yep
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Too bad they couldn't have found room for politics (which is not the same as policy), economics (sorry, finance isn't the same thing, either), demographics, history, cities and urban planning, trade and resources, or war, let alone art, media, psychology, or cultural studies, too.
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almost nothing about the consequences
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Well, nothing about the consequences for the rest of us, as these new masters of the universe make their money.
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Tech Plan Part 1 « The Thinking Stick - 2 views
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Jeff's look at the infrastructure needed for technology savy schools.
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Jeff Utecht in Thailand is a good place to go for synthesised information about technology in education. He shares his infrastructure ideas in this series of blog posts
Practice Investing, Stock Market Game | UpDown.com - 1 views
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A site to practice investing. Free to join.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Britannica reaches out to the web - 0 views
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Finally they wake up to the 21st century!
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica has unveiled a plan to let readers help keep the reference work up to date. Under the plan, readers and contributing experts will help expand and maintain entries online.
Top News - Ed tech central to Obama's recovery plan - 1 views
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Ed tech central to Obama's recovery plan
6-Traits - 1 views
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Annotated links describing various online resources related to the writing process. A strong site for teachers looking for quality resources.
6-Traits lesson plans - 0 views
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You'll find lesson plans for each of the 6-traits. Developed to support an online 6-traits training class at UW-Stout.
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