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Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Teaching With the Enemy - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • you simply cannot fix America’s schools by “scaling” charter schools. It won’t work. Charter schools offer proof of the concept that great teaching is a huge difference-maker, but charters can only absorb a tiny fraction of the nation’s 50 million public schoolchildren. Real reform has to go beyond charters — and it has to include the unions.
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 08 Nov 11
     
    Nice article on the challenges in school reform - An excerpt from the article - " you simply cannot fix America's schools by "scaling" charter schools. ...... Charter schools offer proof of the concept that great teaching is a huge difference-maker, but charters can only absorb a tiny fraction of the nation's 50 million public schoolchildren. Real reform has to go beyond charters - and it has to include the unions."
Xavier Rozas

Education Week: 'School of Future' Struggles to Break From the Past - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...05future_ep.h29.html

emerging technology school reform leadership policy

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  • The hiring of teachers and administrators is bound by district policies, which add layers to the task of finding those best suited for the job. Students are selected through a lottery system, but there is no academic standard for admission. And the school has to meet the same testing and accountability requirements as others in the district.
  • “The fact that you know what needs to be done doesn’t mean organizationally you are always capable of doing it.”
  • “Do we have a school of the future? I don’t think so,” writes Jan Biros, a researcher at Drexel University and a contributor to the book project. “We have a beautiful building that is still a safe haven for its students. We have a traditional curriculum being taught in a conventional way. We even have some teachers who insist on using the books they are used to and not creating online materials or using the portal and the Internet.”
  • Xavier Rozas on 25 Sep 09
     
    As I chew through the Visions 2020 readings, I can't help my skepticism...and not due to the seamless integration of emerging ed technology. Alas, PEOPLE and the existing power structure of schools (reform) are not guided by a mission to reinvent, but to move the goal posts on ed standards around so as to insulate and protect the paradigm. Read on...
Chris McEnroe

How to Rescue Education Reform - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...o-rescue-education-reform.html

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  • No Child Left Behind also let states use statistical gimmicks to report performance
  • ” federal financing should be conditioned on truth in advertisin
  • To shed light on equity and cost-effectiveness, states should be required to report school- and district-level spending; the resources students receive should be disclosed, not only their achievement.
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  • efforts to reduce inequities have too often led to onerous and counterproductive micromanagement.
  • it comes to brain science, language acquisition or the impact of computer-assisted tutoring, federal financing for reliable research is essential. 
  • , competitive federal grants that support innovation while providing political cover for school boards, union leaders and others to throw off anachronistic routines.
  • , dictates from Congress turn into gobbledygook as they travel from the Education Department to state education agencies and then to local school districts
  • it’s not surprising that well-intentioned demands for “bold” federal action on school improvement have a history of misfiring. They stifle problem-solving, encourage bureaucratic blame avoidance and often do more harm than good.
  • Chris McEnroe on 06 Dec 11
     
    The headline promises more than the article delivers. It mainly identifies the limited effectiveness that the federal government can have. There are no specific "how to's" here and no mention of technology whatsoever, perhaps because that would be too specific a focus for the scope of the article. These are prominent figures in a prominent publication having a conversation that could have taken place in 1980. How do we change that? The absence of real civic engagement on issues about education is the missing link in education reform. I wonder if we can organize public discourse on the internet more effectively to have formal impact on civic activism and administration.
Hannah Lesk

HEPG Publishes "The Futures of School Reform" | Harvard Graduate School of Education - 1 views

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school reform HGSE technology

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  • Hannah Lesk on 18 Sep 12
     
    It looks like this argument and vision has a lot of common ground with the NETP. I'm curious to read the book and see what the principal differences are.
Cole Shaw

MOOC for school leaders? - 0 views

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MOOC school reform

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  • Cole Shaw on 29 Sep 12
     
    Kind of interesting...but two schools (HS and University?) in Canada are sponsoring a MOOC for school leaders on how to push your school / organization forward.
Kellie Demmler

eClassroom News - Film series profiles visionaries in 21st-century education - 0 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...index.cfm

school reform 21st Century Skills education technology

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  • Kellie Demmler on 02 Sep 09
     
    This eClassroom news article discusses a film series on school reform based on comments from leaders in the field. Also includes URL http://www.mobilelearninginstitute.org/21stcenturyeducation/index.html that takes you to the videos for viewing. Designed to create a discussion, so let's discuss!
Nick Siewert

Education Week: 'School of Future' Struggles to Break From the Past - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...05future_ep.h29.html

21st century schools computers innovation reform high school

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  • Nick Siewert on 25 Sep 09
     
    The Microsoft backed experimental "School of the Future" in Philadelphia is in many ways hard to distinguish from a typical high school.
Maung Nyeu

Technology not only key to edu reform, says Kim | Stanford Daily - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 05 Nov 11
     
    "Innovation and technology will not be centered around a piece of technology," Paul Kim, assistant dean and CTO at Stanford School of Education, "suggesting instead that educational reformers should focus on content and promoting self-initiated learning."
Jason Hammon

The case for the Private Sector in School Reform - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...261215

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  • Jason Hammon on 26 Oct 12
     
    Joel Klein's case for having the private sector innovate within schools
Maura Wolk

School on the mend - The Boston Globe - 1 views

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School reform education

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  • Maura Wolk on 09 Sep 10
     
    While this article does not address technology directly, I think this is the type of school community that could so benefit from emerging educational technologies. The traditional school model has been failing them, and they are prime for redesign. I'd be interested to see even how something like ecoMUVE could begin to change the classroom atmosphere.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success - Anu Partanen - National -... - 3 views

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Education finland reform

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 30 Dec 11
     
    "Yet one of the most significant things Sahlberg said passed practically unnoticed. "Oh," he mentioned at one point, "and there are no private schools in Finland." This notion may seem difficult for an American to digest, but it's true. Only a small number of independent schools exist in Finland, and even they are all publicly financed. None is allowed to charge tuition fees. There are no private universities, either. This means that practically every person in Finland attends public school, whether for pre-K or a Ph.D."
  • Allison Browne on 02 Jan 12
     
    Equity in teaching education would be a good start.
  • Bridget Binstock on 03 Jan 12
     
    I love this quote, too: 'As for accountability of teachers and administrators, Sahlberg shrugs. "There's no word for accountability in Finnish," he later told an audience at the Teachers College of Columbia University. "Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted."' American's are SO good at blaming everything and everyone ELSE for what is wrong with education in this country. Good for Sahlberg. I might just have to move my family to Finland!
Yan Feng

10 Things That Will Be Obsolete in Education by 2020 - 6 views

www.itslearning.net/-obsolete-in-education-by-2020

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  • Yan Feng on 20 Oct 11
     
    Interesting.
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  • Bridget Binstock on 20 Oct 11
     
    I thought the word "satchel" was already obsolete? HA! And does anyone else agree that they use the term "obsolete" very loosely in some of their explanations - for example HOMEWORK - doesn't "some work at school and some work at home" still constitute homework? And about Standardized TEACHING - until Standardized TESTING goes away, HG and supporters can advocate for this type of teaching reform, but try as we might (and many of us do offer alternative lessons and assignments to take advantage of the multiple intelligences within our classroom), end of the day, we still have to get our kids to pass those tests. It is how we as students, teachers, schools, districts, states and a nation are continually evaluated as being successful.
  • anonymous on 24 Oct 11
     
    I think this article is a little odd too. I think that a lot of times, writers of articles want to make these large shocking claims in their headlines. When you read the actual body of the text though, it becomes evident that the term "obsolete" isn't what they're after - but rather, it's about renaming or altering the way we think about current systems. Also, I was interested in what they meant by changing the actual architecture of schools. When I looked into the gallery though, it was a group of photos of a bunch of weird structures that didn't really show anything about schools (maybe the outsides?).
  • Ayelet R on 27 Oct 11
     
    Also, I can't imagine that education will make the fear of failure extinct. It may make failing a bit more tolerable with individualized instruction, but I can't image that the pressure on students to succeed will decrease; it seems more likely that it will increase.
  • Erin Sisk on 31 Oct 11
     
    I appreciated that they mentioned learning HTML. I wish I learned that in school -- I think basic web design should be a 21st century skill.
Carine Abi Akar

French President Francois Hollande promises to ban homework | GlobalPost - 0 views

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  • Carine Abi Akar on 12 Oct 12
     
    Part of a socialist platform that aims to reform education. No homework at home, but a longer school week. 
Nick Siewert

City Gives A's or B's to 97% of Elementary and Middle Schools - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...03schools.html

testing school report cards school reform New York Schools

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  • Nick Siewert on 02 Sep 09
     
    One example of the perils of standardized testing
Benjamin Berte

U.S. Education Secretary Briefs Stakeholders on 'Investing in Innovation Fund' at... | ... - 0 views

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Arne Duncan Investing in Innovation ACT Rigor and Readiness

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  • "I want the Department to become an engine of innovation, not a compliance monitor," said Secretary Duncan. "We are looking to you - the districts and nonprofits - to unleash your creativity and build the next generation of education reform."
  • According to research conducted by ACT, currently, -- Fewer than 20 percent of 8th-grade students are on target for being college ready in all four core subject areas of English, math, reading, and science. -- Only 70 percent of ACT-tested 2009 high school graduates took a core curriculum. -- Only 23 percent of ACT-tested 2009 high school graduates were college ready in all four core subject areas of English, math, reading, and science.
  • "We are committed to ensuring that all students are college and career ready in achievement, psychosocial behavior, and career and educational planning," said Erickson. "Rigor & Readiness will also create and advance school change, and build and support high-achieving, self-sustaining schools within scalable, replicable systems.
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  • A recording of Secretary Duncan's presentation is available at http://video.webexlivestream.com/events/webx001/31912/.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Film Examines the Challenging Economics Facing Teachers - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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education teachers reform economics

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 24 Sep 11
     
    The documentary asks a question the education reform movement seems to neglect: Why flood American schools with young, highly educated teachers if the good ones cannot afford to stay?
Eric Kattwinkel

Robert J. Samuelson commentary: Student motivation is at root of educational woe | The ... - 2 views

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  • "Reforms" have disappointed for two reasons. First, no one has yet discovered transformative changes in curriculum or pedagogy, especially for inner-city schools, that are "scalable"
  • The larger cause of failure is almost unmentionable: shrunken student motivation.
  • Eric Kattwinkel on 15 Sep 10
     
    "Motivation is weak because more students don't like school, don't work hard and don't do well." Also see Tom Friedman in the NYTimes referring to this article and concluding that "right now the Hindus and Confucians have more Protestant ethics than we do, and as long as that is the case we'll be No. 11!"
Katherine Tarulli

Ken Robinson: Changing education paradigms | Video on TED.com - 1 views

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  • Katherine Tarulli on 05 Sep 11
     
    This is an engaging animation/talk from Sir Ken Robinson about the links between some difficult problems facing schools and how a paradigm shift is necessary to fix them.
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