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I often write about research studies from various field and how they can be applied to the classroom. I write individual posts about ones that I think are especially significant, and will continue to do so. However, so many studies are published that it’s hard to keep up. So I’ve started writing a “round-up” of some of them each week or every other week as a regular feature:
How People Learn:Bridging Research and Practice is a new book from The National Academy Of Sciences and can be read for free online. It focuses on three teaching strategies — activating prior knowledge, focusing on big concept ideas and encouraging pattern recognition, and developing awareness of metacognition.
A couple hundred middle school students will set up their camcorders and interview state legislators at the Capitol tomorrow, asking about their fondest summer memories. The recordings will be uploaded to a website called “Summer Matters to You.” It’s not simply a higher tech version of “What I did on my Summer Vacation” – there’s a slight ulterior motive. The students are part of National Summer Learning Day, and the recordings are also meant to promote summer school by showing the academic, cultural, and financial schism that separates kids when summer starts. Many public officials aren’t aware of it.
While middle-income kids may go to camp or on family vacations or even spend time over the summer reading, that’s not how it is for many low-income kids, said Jennifer Peck,
Media responses to educational reports have become predictably semi-hysterical, simplistic, and taken to invalid conclusions. So it was with the recent report from the Department of Education:
Teachers and parents feel abandoned - even betrayed - by this administration. We were there for you in 2008, President Obama. Where are you now when we need you? -- The Answer Sheet
Montgomery County Supt. Jerry Weast
Unfortunately, federal dollars from the Obama administration’s Race to the Top program are not going where Dr. Weast and the PAR program need to go. Montgomery County schools were entitled to $12 million from Race to the Top, but Dr. Weast said he would not take the money because the grant required districts to include students’ state test results as a measure of teacher quality.
“We don’t believe the tests are reliable,” he said. “You don’t want to turn your system into a test
As the Sacramento Democrats huff and puff about Gov. Jerry Brown’s veto of their gimmick-heavy budget and the punditocracy decides which of them is most at fault, the real story gets missed -- again.
The most obvious culprit is the ever-more insular Republican cult, which has spent the past three decades exploiting California’s minority veto. It enables one third of the state’s legislators to out-vote the other two thirds on any tax or other revenue increase.
Beyond that is an electorate that can’t make up its collective mind what it wants – or rather, stubbornly demands California services with Mississippi taxes. And beyond that there are thirty years of “reforms” and ballot box budgeting that have so convoluted the system it hardly functions at all.
The most recent of those fixes was Proposition 25 that the voters passed last November, which lowers the two-thirds vote required to pass the budget to a simple majority, but leaves intact the supermajority needed to raise taxes.
By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California
With the stroke of an autopen from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the once articulate critic of the Patriot Act signed a four year extension of the most dangerous assault on American civil liberties in US history without a single additional privacy protection.
One would think that this reauthorization would have incited vigorous debate in the halls of Congress and at least a fraction of the breathless 24/7 media coverage allotted the Anthony Weiner “sexting” scandal. Instead, three weeks ago the House (250 to 153) and Senate (72 to 23) approved, and the President signed, an extension of this landmark attack on the Bill of Rights with little notice and even less debate.
Gov. Rick Snyder will create a new authority to run several failing Detroit Public Schools as part of a sweeping reform package to be announced Monday for the struggling district, sources said.
The plan would restructure the failing school district, which has a $327 million budget deficit, by moving underperforming DPS schools under a new authority to be run by current DPS Emergency Financial Manager Roy Roberts, according to sources.
That's what some Republicans want, and it wouldn't surprise me at all to see Democrats chiming in any moment now. Employers would love to put kids to work at any and all hours, and the hell with school and all that other nonsense. If it weren't for all this education crap, they'd be ensured of an extremely low-paid work force with even less hope for advancement than there already is now.
Last Friday I proctored an English Regents exam and the young woman in the seat closest to the door kept falling asleep. I had to keep asking her if she was OK,
Among the biggest challenges we face in “educational reform” are the many faulty assumptions that underlie our efforts to fix the problems we perceive in schools. Because we fail to deeply assess and evaluate these underlying assumptions, we continue to misunderstand the problems, propose answers to the wrong problems, or address only a portion of a much larger overall challenge.
What are some of the common educational assumptions to which I’m referring? Here are a few:
Assumption 1:The goal of schooling should be to graduate students who are verbally,
In conversation with President Joseph Moore at Lesley University, Dr. Diane Ravitch discusses the effects of school choice and voucher plans on public schools, the new emphasis on testing, and a new market-based educational environment on community schools.
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