Why the kids of the 1% are still better than your kids
by Chalk Face, PhD
Because they can afford to hire “disabled” tour guides to help them jump ahead in lines at Disney. BOOM! From the New York Post.
Can We Agree to a New Approach to School Improvement?
by John Thompson
PBS’s first education TED talk began with the promise that it would not play the blame game. The great presentations that followed raise the question of what could be accomplished if they obeyed that policy, stopped pointing fingers, and promoted “win win” methods of school improvement. A previous post, “What if School “Reformers” Kept Up Their Best Behavior?,” showed that even the most fervent true believers in data-driven accountability could accomplish their positive goals for school improvement if they followed the PBS TED rulebook. This post will focus on TED’s three big ideas about teaching and learning, and one smaller piece of practical wisdom, that could be keys to school improvement.
Demands for test-driven evaluations have had the unintended (or intended) effect of changing the subject away from students’ rights to engaging instruction. We
