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Cole Shaw

Jeb Bush on education - 1 views

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    Just thinking about Professor Dede's experience with the Bush Foundation, I found this interview with Jeb Bush interesting. He talks some about the Bush Foundation's recent Education in Excellence conference and what kinds of issues are at stake for education reform to stick. Obviously a little bit political, but not too much. Building on some of the previous posts, politics does impact change in education so I think it's important for us to keep these things in mind.
Jeffrey Siegel

How reformers (unfortunately) get captivated by experimental technology - 1 views

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    Authors urge caution before jumping on the tech-bandwagon. Their argument amounts to something like it's best not to buy first generation tech products; wait until the kinks are worked out.
Chris McEnroe

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

  • 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.
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    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.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Teaching With the Enemy - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • 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.
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    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."
Hannah Lesk

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

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    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.
Chris Dede

E-Rate Reform Is 'Going to Happen.' But How? -- THE Journal - 0 views

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    erate is key for infrastructure that helps low-income families
Kellie Demmler

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

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    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!
Xavier Rozas

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

  • 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.”
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    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...
Devon Dickau

California Higher-Education System Needs Drastic Reforms, Report Says - The Ticker - Th... - 1 views

  • John A. Douglass, the paper’s author, says the state should create a centralized online university
  • California Higher-Education System Needs Drastic Reforms, Report Says
Maung Nyeu

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

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    "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."
Cole Shaw

How MOOCs are affecting universities around the world - 0 views

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    This article looks at one case study in El Salvador where MOOCs have cracked open the door for university reform. Universities in emerging markets operate on really low budgets compared to U.S. universities, and MOOCs give them access to current content, especially important for high-tech subjects.
Brandon Pousley

Education Nation 2.0: Redefining K-12 Education in America - YouTube - 0 views

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    Truly great discussion with some great minds all focused on not simply how to reform education, but how to look at a real transformation of what it means to educate in the 21st Century.
Carine Abi Akar

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

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    Part of a socialist platform that aims to reform education. No homework at home, but a longer school week. 
Irina Uk

Will U.S. education policies advance or throttle online learning? - 0 views

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    Information about a book being published on necessary education reform and its impact on online learning.
Jason Hammon

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

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    Joel Klein's case for having the private sector innovate within schools
Cameron Paterson

Disrupting Class - 6 views

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    Michael Horn, co-author of "Disrupting Class" and Executive Director for Education and the Innosight Institute, has agreed to do a live chat with me and Andrew Barras on Wednesday, September 29. Right now the time is looking like 12Noon EST. This is a great one-on-one interaction opportunity for teachers, education reformers, education administrators and anyone interested in the role that digital learning plays in the delivery of equity to every student in America.
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    Hi Cameron, If you do get something arranged and want more participants, we could post this on the TIE list, EPLIP list, or the T561 class list... Of course, if you are trying to do something more intimate, that might not be a good idea, and you should just let Diigo followers go :) Anyway, kudos for putting it together!
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    Justin, would be great to post this on the lists you mention.
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    Sure, can you email me a short little blurb with a few more details-- confirming the time, the medium, the end time, the topic, etc.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

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

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    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?
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