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Restoring Our Schools | The Nation - 0 views

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    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      Are these goals worthy of attention? Do they assume 21st Century skills? What century's aspirations do these address?
  • This is partly because the international assessments demand more advanced analysis than do most US tests. They require students to weigh and balance evidence, apply what they know to new problems and explain and defend their answers. These higher-order skills are emphasized in other nations' curriculums and assessment systems but have been discouraged by the kind of lower-level multiple-choice testing favored by NCLB.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      SOunds like we have to work 3-4 times as hard and long at what we've been doing or we might shift gears and try a new approach!
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  • inequality has an enormous influence on US performance. White and Asian students score just above the average for the European OECD nations in each subject area, but African-American and Hispanic students score so much lower that the national average plummets to the bottom tier
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      WOW! Politics DO matter!
  • This is because of greater income inequality and because the United States spends much more educating affluent children than poor children, with wealthy suburbs often spending twice what central cities do, and three times what poor rural areas can afford.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      Now hold on just a dagum minute! Sounds like you're talking an inadequate wealth distribution system at odds with a national priority...I think lower taxes, less regulation and Drill, Baby Drill should suffice!
  • At a time when three-quarters of the fastest-growing occupations require postsecondary education, our college participation rates have slipped from first in the world to seventeenth. While more than half of young people are becoming college graduates in many European and Asian nations, fewer than 40 percent of American young people—and fewer than 20 percent of African-American and Hispanic youth—receive a college degree.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      The Flattening of the World is truly an Inconvienient Truth!
  • States that would not spend $10,000 a year to ensure adequate education for children of color in under-resourced schools later spend more than $30,000 a year to keep them in jail.
  • we have not pointed our schools at the critical higher-order thinking and performance skills needed in the twenty-first century.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      I WAS Right!
  • Finland dismantled the rigid tracking system that had allocated differential access to knowledge to its young people and eliminated the state-mandated testing system that was used for this purpose, replacing them with highly trained teachers educated in newly overhauled schools of education, along with curriculums and assessments focused on problem-solving, creativity and independent learning. These changes have propelled achievement to the top of the international rankings and closed what was once a large, intractable achievement gap.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      How do their politicians know when to pat themselves on the back? Aren't they Socialists?
  • South Korea has transformed itself
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
       
      OK, now I'm mad! On who's dime did they do this? How much do we spend on maintaining the DMZ?
  • "experience, investigate and create"
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      Sounds like a Problem, Project, Passion Based, LoTI curriculum.
  • Teachers, meanwhile, engage in research sponsored by the government to evaluate and continually improve their teaching.
    • Kenneth Jones
      Kenneth Jones on 20 Jun 10
       
      How do adminstrators get to play Gotcha?
  • Kenneth Jones on 19 Jun 10
     
    Use this as a starting point to get others to use diigo...
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