In April and May, I asked district administrators for the research and data that support their continued use of reform curricula. Despite several formal requests for public information and a friendly phone call, I’ve received no data and no research. I was told that supporting research was tossed with yesterday’s meatloaf. No, I was actually told it wasn’t kept on hand. (The meatloaf is still there.) I don’t know why the research wouldn’t be kept because administrators keep referring to it (as in “research shows” and “according to the research”). Instead, I was given the names of three organizations and two types of tests, and I was invited to the central office to look over their “great number of materials on the subject of effective instruction in mathematics.” Technically, this is not “data” or “research.” Technically, I think this is called “skating.”
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Betrayed - Why Public Education Is Failing: Why administrators don't listen - 21 views
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The author's implication is that the district never had any research despite the claim that it wasn't kept
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National School Reform Faculty - 3 views
Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice - 8 views
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Schools offer teachers and students an opportunity to do what is almost never done in society. In schools we can gather together a group of twenty to thirty people and have them listen, discuss, analyze, and share differing points of view. Schools provide a rare chance to read, debate, write, and quietly think. We don’t need expensive technology to learn how to ask excellent questions, articulate ideas, and be forced to defend our thoughts.
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Technology can, of course, do amazing things. Any tool can be used properly or improperly. Unfortunately, with devices like Smart Boards, images come and go, and the teacher is often looking at a computer screen for part of the class. Smart Boards and similar technologies reinforce the idea that knowledge resides in things. We don’t need Smart Boards, we need smart people.
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"We don't need Smart Boards, we need smart people"
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Larry Cuban makes a critic about the use of technology in schools
Op-Ed Contributor - One Classroom, From Sea to Shining Sea - NYTimes.com - 3 views
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To solve the education crisis, end local control of schools.
YouTube - TEDxNYED - Chris Lehmann - 03/06/10 - 8 views
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Chris Lehmann, principal at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, challenges educators as we explore the future of education.
Teacher Magazine: Taking Back School Reform: A Conversation Between Diane Ravitch and Mike Rose - 5 views
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deep-seated wish to create escape routes from public education.
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Does supporting vouchers mean we are giving up on schools?
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Since there is no way to know who will be an effective teacher
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It is possible to determine if someone will be or is a good teachers through oberservation and coaching, which costs money and time and has rarely been used effectively in the past.
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What if we could channel the financial and human resources spent on the machinery of high-stakes testing into a robust, widely distributed program of professional development?
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www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/blueprint/blueprint.pdf - 6 views
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Haven't read this yet, though high on my list. What other people are saying about this disturbs me a great deal.
Darling-Hammond: U.S. vs highest-achieving nations in education - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 1 views
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"The first ever International Summit on Teaching, convened last week in New York City"
How We Get Schools Wrong - 8 views
Father: Why I didn't let my son take standardized tests - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post - 0 views
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My wife and I had Luke “opt out” of No Child Left Behind standardized testing (here in Pennsylvania known as the Pennsylvania System of School Achievement, or PSSAs).
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Last week I did just that. I looked at the test and determined that it violated my religion. How, you might ask? That’s an entirely different blog, but I can quickly say that my religion does not allow for or tolerate the act of torture and I determined that making Luke sit for over 10 hours filling in bubble sheets would have been a form of mental and physical torture, given that we could give him no good reason as to why he needs to take this test.
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ch a reason for opting out of the PSSA testing will negatively affect the school’s participation rate and could POTENTIALLY have a negative impact on the school’s Adequate Yearly Progress under the rules of No Child Left Behind.
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Another PA parent opts his child out of PSSA standardized testing as a measure of civil disobedience. Word of caution: This can very much hurt a school's Adequate Yearly Progress and ultimately the school may suffer. But, what if this movement spread amongst parents? What then? Would the government take over the school?
US Education vs. The World (cool infographic) with - 11 views
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US Education vs. The World (cool infographic) with the link this time... http://bit.ly/j0tf3E #edchat #sschat
Visions of Students Today - 12 views
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Wow! Watch the initial video, then click through some of the individual videos along the outside when it's finished. What are your thoughts on the message from these students? Another Michael Wesch video
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Impressive! But being a digital migrant still attached to text info, for browsing these videos, I prefer (call for submissions), then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o (initial video) and http://www.youtube.com/video_response_view_all?v=dGCJ46vyR9o (all video responses). And http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=VOST2011&search=tag (all videos tagged VODT2011) ;-)
Political Debate In Australia - 4 views
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In 2006 I suggested that it might be time to actually define ''Education'', something omitted in the draft bill, and to explore its role in personal and community life, but this was rejected as too ambitious.
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yep, what is education? Put it in the too hard basket. Keep doing what we've always done?
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This is by far the best-educated cohort in our history - on paper, anyway - but apparently lacking in courage, judgment, capacity to analyse or even simple curiosity, except about immediate personal needs.
Boring Yet Important Structural Ed Tech Initiative - 0 views
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by Kevin Carey on September 26, 2011 "Under the category of "policy stuff that doesn't involve grand controversy and/or vast sums of new spending, yet might actually make the world a better place," the other day I attended a White House event announcing the launch of Digital Promise, a "new national center founded to spur breakthrough technologies that can help transform the way teachers teach and students learn." The rationale for the initiative is contained in a Council of Economic Advisers memo ..."
Unleashing the Potential of Educational Technology - White House - PDF - 0 views
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Executive Office of the President Council of Economic Advisers Unleashing the Potential of Educational Technology September 16, 2011 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Educational technology holds the promise of substantially improving outcomes for K-12 students, but there are significant challenges in bringing new educational technology products for this population to market. It is difficult for producers of these technologies to demonstrate the effectiveness of their products to potential buyers and market fragmentation creates barriers to entry by all but the largest suppliers. The spread of broadband Internet and Common Core State Standards have improved the landscape for educational technologies, but these factors alone are likely insufficient for a "game changing" advance. Working together, stakeholders can form a plan of action to provide local school systems with easy access to good information about the effectiveness of various educational technology products and give prospective developers of these products access to customers on a scale sufficient to make it worthwhile for them to enter the market. The payoff - in the form of more effective and more widely utilized educational technologies, leading to better outcomes for students - could be enormous.
Will · No Quick Fix - 11 views
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It's always interesting to me how many people in education, once they start waking up to the big shifts that are afoot, immediately jump to the "ok, so how do we change our schools?" question without addressing the "How do we change ourselves?" question first.
Back to (the wrong) school - 2 views
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