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Showing posts with label Education Reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Education Reform. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Schools A Symptom, Not A Cause

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Nick Hanauer, a self-described plutocrat, understands well the old canard that doing the same thing again and again with the same unsatisfac...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Are Teachers Fast-Food Purveyors or Professionals?

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I have been following an online discussion.  (Scratch that, what do you call it when one of the parties constantly responds with insults).  ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

What do Employers Really Want from College Grads?

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The summer 2015 issue of the Phi Kappa Phi Forum featured an article summarizing a recent survey of 300 employers entitled “The Value of St...
Saturday, May 30, 2015

Data-Driven Fallacy

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“Data- driven” sounds like a great way to make decisions. It even sounds scientific. What could possibly go wrong? When data drives de...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

BTW High Regard Correlates with High Achievement

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Peter Gow argues that the one feature we commonly dismiss with an airy “by the way” is the one feature all the school systems we admire shar...
Saturday, May 25, 2013

Student Centered or Abdication?

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Currently on the education forums there are some proponents of extreme student centered instruction. They insist all our education problem...
Saturday, March 23, 2013

Common Core—Cart Before Horse

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“You know the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery are now extinct.” ----W. Somerset Maugham Reading over most of the back and fo...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

In Case of Nothing to Do, Break Glass...

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...and then sweep up broken glass. Americans have hopes and ideals for public education. As David Sirota explains, Here in the industr...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Smart People (You and Me) are Stupid

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A recent provocative article from the New Yorker begins: Here’s a simple arithmetic question: A bat and ball cost a dollar and ten cents. ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Parents In Contempt

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As long as schools hold the public (who pays their bills, by the way) and parents in utter contempt, I seriously doubt that they will be abl...
Thursday, December 8, 2011

It's the Poverty, Stupid: Part 2

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This is the second part of a two part series. The first part discusses poverty in general, especially as it applies to the Occupy Movement....
Friday, October 7, 2011

Omnipresent Poverty and US Competitive Advantage

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Using test-scores to hold teachers accountable for student education variables not under teacher control is clearly wrong-headed, but for so...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

The Lake Wobegone Effect Plagues Parent Surveys

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THEN (not so then) A 2008 poll from Education Next and the Program on Education Policy and Governance (PEPG) at Harvard University found ...
Friday, September 2, 2011

The Teachers' Social Security Safety Net

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Over at Justin Baeder's blog , there is a lively discussion of Social Security. I suspect I provoked some of it. Please read the origi...
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Friday, June 24, 2011

These Wings Don't Fly

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“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.” ~ George Carlin T...
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Cultural Sacred Cows of American Education

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As long as comparative studies show so many other countries outperforming American students, there will be those who dismiss the findings be...
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Making Enemies of ED Reform Allies

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Alienating “ed reform” allies seems to be a counter-intuitive strategy, but one that “common-sense teachers” rely on more and more frequentl...
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Monday, October 18, 2010

The Agrarian Model Myth

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The model of public education is not primarily agrarian, although the needs of a predominately rural population may have influenced the scho...
Friday, October 15, 2010

Teach Tony Danza, Episode 2

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In the second episode, Tony Danza gives his first quiz which half the class fails. When he hands back the quiz, a clash of expectations occu...
Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Reality Education: The Teach Tony Danza Show, Episode 1

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Tony Danza, TV personality whose most memorable shows were probably Taxi and Who's the Boss, is only a couple years away from qualifyin...