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Lorri Carroll

This pampered private school elite can only lead to US decline | Naomi Wolf | Comment i... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...rivate-school-elite-us-decline

private school elite guardian

shared by Lorri Carroll on 25 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • "How many times has a kid said to me,'You work for me; I am your employer,'" sighed one such administrator to me, recently. This unbalancing of the power relationship in the parents' direction has forced private school principals and teachers to cater to parents by increasingly offering an obstacle-free school experience – since that is what parents demand.
    • Lorri Carroll
      Lorri Carroll on 25 Mar 12
       
      I have actually also heard this stated by public school children (and parents) in the form of "my taxes pay your salary". This is not an independent school thing alone...
  • the teachers work for them; rather than serving as authority figures to the kids, educators at such schools complain that wealthy US parents increasingly expect "service" and "deliverables" from teachers, so won't brook a poor grade or evaluation, or a difficult experience for their child
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    • Lorri Carroll
      Lorri Carroll on 25 Mar 12
       
      The generalizations made here are astounding to me. 
  • something that never happens in private-school setting any more
susan carter morgan

After Facebook Scandal, Horace Mann Forced to Ask What Values It Should Teach -- New Yo... - 0 views

nymag.com/45592

facebook scandal school

shared by susan carter morgan on 01 Apr 08 - Cached
  • When students created Facebook pages that viciously attacked a teacher, and when their wealthy parents on the school’s board defended them, Horace Mann was forced to confront a series of questions: Is a Facebook page private, like a diary? Is big money distorting private-school education? And what values is a school supposed to teach?
Demetri Orlando

CWRA sample report (PDF) including sample problem - 0 views

www.cae.org/...eport_Your%20High%20School.pdf

cwra testing

shared by Demetri Orlando on 23 Apr 10 - No Cached
  • Demetri Orlando on 23 Apr 10
     
    Sample Problem: You advise Pat Williams, the president of DynaTech, a company that makes precision electronic instruments and navigational equipment. Sally Evans, a member of DynaTech's sales force, recommended that DynaTech buy a small private plane (a SwiftAir 235) that she and other members of the sales force could use to visit customers. Pat was about to approve the purchase when there was an accident involving a SwiftAir 235. Your document library contains the following materials: 1 . Newspaper article about the accident 2. Federal Accident Report on in-flight breakups in single-engine planes 3. Internal Correspondence (Pat's e-mail to you & Sally's e-mail to Pat) 4. Charts relating to SwiftAir's performance characteristics 5. Excerpt from magazine article comparing SwiftAir 235 to similar planes 6. Pictures and descriptions of SwiftAir Models 180 and 235 Sample Questions: Do the available data tend to support or refute the claim that the type of wing on the SwiftAir 235 leads to more in-flight breakups? What is the basis for your conclusion? What other factors might have contributed to the accident and should be taken into account? What is your preliminary recommendation about whether or not DynaTech should buy the plane and what is the basis for this recommendation?
susan carter morgan

Raise Your Hands (Techlearning blog) - 0 views

www.techlearning.com/...raise_your_hands_1.php

collaboration professional techlearning

shared by susan carter morgan on 01 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Alan November adds, "The best thing to invest in right now is collegiality. The number one skill that teachers will need is to be team-based, collegial, sharing their knowledge and wisdom."
  • Dedicate a portion of your day to honing your professional practice
  • Establish a professional learning network
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  • . Establish and maintain a virtual professional learning space that fosters shared knowledge and resources
  • Make professional reflection and scholarly work a priority and make it public.
  • 5. Model professional learning for colleagues, students, and parents
  • We effect change by engaging in robust conversations with ourselves, our colleagues, our customers, our family, the world.... Your time of holding back, of guarding your private thoughts, is over. Your function in life is to make a declarative statement" - Susan Scott
susan carter morgan

Around the Corner - MGuhlin.net - 0 views

www.edsupport.cc/...02-13-2008_02-11-2009.htm

independentschool

shared by susan carter morgan on 01 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Having enrolled my 8 year old in a private, Episcopal school for the last few years, and had the experience of seeing him survive but not thrive in two public schools in two different districts, I have to agree there are savage inequities in play.
  • susan carter morgan on 01 Jun 08
     
    independent school education
Sarah Hanawald

Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle a... - 0 views

www.dvschool.org/psngatto.htm

education independent teaching

shared by Sarah Hanawald on 03 May 08 - Cached
  • I heard a vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action of schools. He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of leading the world in this literacy.
  • In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations--not by their own individual accomplishments. It such a world people who read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they don't know by themselves, without consulting experts
  • Dewey said the great mistake of traditional pedagogy was to make reading and writing constitute the bulk of early schoolwork.
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  • New York State, for instance, employs more school administrators than all of the European Economic Community nations combined.
  • rederich Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten in 19th century Germany, fashioned his idea he did not have a "garden for children" in mind, but a metaphor of teachers as gardeners and children as the vegetables.
  • Kindergarten was created to be a way to break the influence of mothers on their children.
  • Violence, narcotic addictions, divorce, alcoholism, loneliness...all these are but tangible measures of a poverty in education.
  • Sarah Hanawald on 03 May 08
     
    Interesting. John Taylor Gotto on education and the value of less rather than more school. He mentions that the best programmers are self-taught.
susan carter morgan

Sometimes "bookmark" does not work - 21 views

Hi Demetri, I agree, but I couldn't figure out a quick way to remove the file without removing the post. I usually check for copyright issues, but I was so interested in the possible discussion, I ...

diigo problem

started by Demetri Orlando on 22 Jun 08 3 follow-ups, last by susan carter morgan on 23 Jun 08
Bram Moreinis

Social Networking with Profile Role-Playing - 0 views

Thanks for that, Demetri! I'm working with a teacher who is having her students adopt Civil War era persona and write letters to the editor in response to articles on http;//prosepoint.empowered-t...

started by Bram Moreinis on 24 May 10 no follow-up yet
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