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Schools Matter: Gates Research Galvanizing Disgust for All Things Gates
Schools Matter: Gates Research Galvanizing Disgust for All Things Gates: Gates Research Galvanizing Disgust for All Things Gates by Jim Horn Diane Ravitch has uncovered a brave new world of research that makes student clickers as ancient as the knickers. Funded by Gates at Clemson U., which sold its soul to the highest bidder some years back, this new world technology tracks student attention levels with bracelets. Next: shock treatments for daydreaming? by Diane Ravitch Yesterday I posted a blog about the Gates Foundation funding research at Clemson University for something c...more »
This Teacher Knows How to Game the GRS Bracelet « Diane Ravitch's blog
This Teacher Knows How to Game the GRS Bracelet « Diane Ravitch's blog: This Teacher Knows How to Game the GRS Bracelet by dianerav This teacher sent a comment; he or she has figured it out. If the galvanic response skin bracelet will give teachers a high effectiveness rating when students are excited, there is an easy way to game the system and fool the bracelet: *Can this galvanic contraption distinguish between different types of excitement? Sometimes a beautiful new female student joins my class and the young men are visibly excited–about the girl, but not about my thrilling e... more »
Hudson Reporter - Charter school employees to lose retirement benefits Hoboken JC schools protest possible pension losses
Hudson Reporter - Charter school employees to lose retirement benefits Hoboken JC schools protest possible pension losses: Charter school employees to lose retirement benefits? *Hoboken, JC schools protest possible pension losses* byStephen LaMarca *Reporter Staff Writer* Jun 10, 2012 | 229 views | 0 [image: 0 comments] | 2 [image: 2 recommendations] | [image: email to a friend] | [image: print] [image: The Hoboken Charter School (HCS) passed a resolution opposing the draft IRS regulation.] view slideshow (2 images) Several Hudson County charter schools have joined the effort to oppo... more »
The Education Report: Attendance boundary angst in Oakland - San Jose Mercury News
The Education Report: Attendance boundary angst in Oakland - San Jose Mercury News: The Education Report: Attendance boundary angst in Oakland By Katy Murphy Oakland Tribune Posted: 06/10/2012 12:00:00 AM PDT This is a sampling of The Education Report, Katy Murphy's Oakland schools blog. Read more atwww.IBAbuzz.com/education. Follow her at Twitter.com/KatyMurphy. June 7 The Oakland school district might study its school attendance boundaries once again, if the school board approves such a proposal next fall -- but the new lines wouldn't be drawn before the 2013-14 school year, Dav... more »
Missouri Education Watchdog: Bill Gates, Fairy Tales, Technology, High Stakes Testing and the Sunday Education Weekly Reader 06.10.12
Missouri Education Watchdog: Bill Gates, Fairy Tales, Technology, High Stakes Testing and the Sunday Education Weekly Reader 06.10.12: Bill Gates, Fairy Tales, Technology, High Stakes Testing and the Sunday Education Weekly Reader 06.10.12 by stlgretchen The genius-beasts of reform education and their technological "advances" Welcome to the Sunday Education Reader for 06.10.12. Tweets of the week include the oft-dismissed learning discipline of memorization, the joys of using social media in the classroom, the harm to the brain using social media, stress reducing behaviors by stu... more »
Do Not Accept the New Normal « Diane Ravitch's blog
Do Not Accept the New Normal « Diane Ravitch's blog: Do Not Accept the New Normal by dianerav Since No Child Left Behind began its reign of error a decade ago, the American public has slowly but surely changed its understanding and expectations of schools. We have come to think that every school must “make” every student proficient, and if it cannot, then the school is a “failing” school. We have come to look on schools as “failing” if they enroll large numbers of students who don’t perform well on standardized tests, regardless of their personal circumstances, their language abili... more »
Making Schools about Learning Again « Cooperative Catalyst
Making Schools about Learning Again « Cooperative Catalyst: Making Schools about Learning Again by Paula White I have to say I was one of those kids for whom “school was okay.” I didn’t hate it, but neither did I love it–and I was, and am, a lifelong learner. I like learning, even when it’s hard–I get great pleasure out of figuring something out, gaining new knowledge that I can then use, and then, often sharing it. I like the struggle that comes with solving a puzzle of some kind. I have handheld games (that require strategy to play, such as Othello and Yahtzee) all around my h... more »
Amid a flurry of misspellings, test yourself - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
Amid a flurry of misspellings, test yourself - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post: Amid a flurry of misspellings, test yourself By Valerie Strauss In the past 10 days or so, we’ve seen some pretty embarrassing misspellings. Mitt Romney’s team was behind the now famous misspelling of the word “America” on an iPhone app (though it is hard not to wonder how many people at Apple missed “Amercia” during the app approval process). Then we learned that diplomas distributed at a (Brendan McDermid/REUTERS)Maryland high school featured a misspelling of the word “program”and had to be rep... more »
Reshaping Teaching through Managerial Use of Student Test Scores | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
Reshaping Teaching through Managerial Use of Student Test Scores | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice: Reshaping Teaching through Managerial Use of Student Test Scores by larrycuban *The path of educational progress more closely resembles the flight of a butterfly than the flight of a bullet. Philip Jackson, 1968* Top governmental policymakers and private insurance companies, deeply concerned over ever-rising health care costs and unwilling to rely upon doctors to restrain expenditures, have built structures over the past quarter-century to hold physicians accounta...more »
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Testing contractors bleeding La. schools dry
Schooling in the Ownership Society: Testing contractors bleeding La. schools dry: Testing contractors bleeding La. schools dry by Mike Klonsky John Kennedy, state Treasurer, holds two books listings contracts for the Department of Education. Kennedy spoke with the News-Star Editorial Board on May 23. / Margaret Croft/The News-StarThe Louisiana Department of Education is spending more than $132.9 million with two out-of-state companies for
Real Reform: What we DO want (?) « Cooperative Catalyst
Real Reform: What we DO want (?) « Cooperative Catalyst: Real Reform: What we DO want (?) by iteach4change Easy way to get a new post – paste your treatise from another blog… Yesterday (Sat. 6/9) this was posted on BlueJersey: *“There’s a lot written here about what we don’t like about the right wing education “reform” agenda – the attack on unions, privatization, etc.* *I’m at an education panel at Netroots Nation, and a Rhode Island blogger asked the question what is the progressive reform agenda. Not what we don’t like, but what actions we should be proactively promoting?* *Blue ... more »
More about Our Brave New World « Diane Ravitch's blog
More about Our Brave New World « Diane Ravitch's blog: More about Our Brave New World by dianerav Yesterday I posted a blog about the Gates Foundation funding research at Clemson University for something called Galvanic Response Skin bracelets. The project will enable researchers at Clemson to work with researchers in the Gates Foundation’s Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project to measure student engagement physiologically. MET is the Gates program to identify the most effective (and ineffective) teachers. It is the heart of the Gates’ teacher evaluation program, into whic... more »
Look To Westchester County To Fight Pearson and the Deformers http://www.southbronxschool.com
http://www.southbronxschool.com: Look To Westchester County To Fight Pearson and the Deformers by noreply@blogger.com (Bronx Teacher) *PEARSON CEO "DAME" MAJORIE SCARDINO*For those who don't know who Janine Sopp is, run do not walk, and check out her blog Change The Stakes. Janine is a parent in Brooklyn, in fact she is not an educator, as well as an artist and she is leading a movement to end testing as we know it. I have spoken and emailed with her a on several occasions and she is smart as a whip and really is quite knowledgeable. I bring Janine up for several reasons tonight. ... more »
Merit Pay for Teachers? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Bribe! « Diary of a Public School Teacher!
Merit Pay for Teachers? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Bribe! « Diary of a Public School Teacher!: Merit Pay for Teachers? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Bribe! by Oldschoolteach COMING SOON? And you know they would! [image: :)] Merit pay, how realistic is it that our pay could actually be tied to test scores? Very realistic! What is merit pay? *Noun :extra pay awarded to an employee on the basis of merit (especially to school teachers)* What “think tank” thought up this idea, maybe the same one that stated that smaller class size doesn’t matter? I am amazed by what people (non-educators) c... more »
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