In American public schools, the principal is the most complex and contradictory figure in the pantheon of educational leadership.
The Principal: The Most Misunderstood Person in All of Education - Kate Rousmaniere - T... - 1 views
-
-
A few years ago when I walked the hallways of a high school with my five-year-old niece Evie, she remarked, without prompting: “There’s the principal’s office: you only go there if you are in trouble.”
-
Most remarkably, those very people who did not understand what a principal did were often the first to argue for the abolition of the role.
- ...7 more annotations...
What poor children need in school - 0 views
-
Most educational policy elites, whether in government or in the nonprofit sector, mean well.
-
Yet policymakers tend to come from a relatively privileged slice of American society. And they tend to possess a set of beliefs and assumptions distinct to their background.
-
But in most cases, the fact that decision-makers inhabit a different world from students—and particularly, poor students—is a matter of great significance.
- ...6 more annotations...
This Week In Education: Thompson: How Houston's Test and Punish Policies Fail - 0 views
-
I often recall Houston's Apollo 20 experiment, designed to bring "No Excuses" charter school methods to neighborhood schools. Its output-driven, reward and punish policies failed. It was incredibly expensive, costing $52 million and it didn't increase reading scores. Intensive math tutoring produced test score gains in that subject. The only real success was due to the old-fashioned, win-win, input-driven method of hiring more counselors.
-
Michels finds no evidence that Grier's test-driven accountability has benefitted students, but he describes the great success of constructive programs that build on kids' strengths and provide them more opportunities.
-
With the help of local philanthropies, however, Houston has introduced a wide range of humane, holistic, and effective programs. Michels starts with Las Americas Newcomer School, which is "on paper a failing school." It offers group therapy and social workers who help immigrants "navigate bureaucratic barriers—like proof of residency or vaccination records." He then describes outstanding early education programs that are ready to be scaled up, such as the Gabriela Mistral Center for Early Childhood, and Project Grad which has provided counseling and helped more than 7,600 students go to college.
- ...5 more annotations...
Trouble with Rubrics - 0 views
-
She realized that her students, presumably grown accustomed to rubrics in other classrooms, now seemed “unable to function unless every required item is spelled out for them in a grid and assigned a point value. Worse than that,” she added, “they do not have confidence in their thinking or writing skills and seem unwilling to really take risks.”[5]
-
This is the sort of outcome that may not be noticed by an assessment specialist who is essentially a technician, in search of practices that yield data in ever-greater quantities.
-
The fatal flaw in this logic is revealed by a line of research in educational psychology showing that students whose attention is relentlessly focused on how well they’re doing often become less engaged with what they're doing.
- ...12 more annotations...
Public schools aren't failing | CharlotteObserver.com - 0 views
-
In fact, both show that American public school children are doing remarkably well.
-
For example, the NCES report shows that in schools with less than 25 percent poverty rates, American children scored higher in reading than any other children in the world. In. The. World.
-
The takeaway is simple. Our middle-class and wealthy public school children are thriving. Poor children are struggling, not because their schools are failing but because they come to school with all the well-documented handicaps that poverty imposes – poor prenatal care, developmental delays, hunger, illness, homelessness, emotional and mental illnesses, and so on.
- ...5 more annotations...
Study examines Wallace Foundation's Wallace principal pipeline project - 0 views
-
I would think it would take years for a new principal to replace teachers and make curriculum changes that would eventually trickle down to students and grow over time. More research is needed to understand what things new principals are doing immediately that boost learning throughout the building.
‹ Previous
21 - 28 of 28
Showing 20▼ items per page