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The question isn't whether public education can be improved -- rather, it's how can it be improved. But before we implement a solution, we need to be clear about the real problems that are plaguing public education and, more generally, society. The problem with Public Education is not low test scores. Poverty is the single largest problem that plagues most education systems. In his post What the U.S can't learn from Finland, Pasi Sahlberg writes: First of all, although Finland can show the United States what equal opportunity looks like, Americans cannot achieve equity without first implementing fundamental changes in their school system. Linda Darling-Hammond writes in the Nation: Inequality has an enormous influence on US performance. Alfie Kohn on the Majority Report puts it this way: Talking about American education is like talking about the quality of American air.
Halt the Testing Madness. Halt the Testing Madness Before accepting overtesting as inevitable, try debating the issue with parents and students By Gary S.
Stager, Ph.D. Originally published in District Administration Magazine - July 2003 © 2003 Professional Media Group LLC Our schools are in the midst of a mass panic not seen since the swine flu epidemic--standardized testing. John Taylor Gatto's Statement. ©2008 by John Taylor Gatto.
This piece may be circulated without cost on the Internet, but only if used uncut and cost-free. The Bartleby Project is taken from Mr. Gatto's book, Weapons of Mass Instruction, New Society Publishers 2008. If you read this to the end, you'll discover that I'm inviting you to join a real conspiracy, call it an open conspiracy, with real consequences on millions of real lives. I know that sounds megalomaniacal, but be patient. We've all taken these tests. Nothing inside the little red schoolhouse does more personal and social damage than the numbers and rank order these tests hang around the necks of the young. The frequent ceremonies of useless testing—preparation, administration, recovery—convert forced schooling into a travesty of what education should be; they drain hundreds of millions of days yearly from what might otherwise be productive pursuits; they divert tens of billions of cash resources into private pockets.
Two tales of personalization and technology. GoodWork Toolkit. A free unconference for educators, by educators. OneVille’s mission is to facilitate collaboration in young people’s success by co-creating communication solutions linking the people in young people’s lives. Fireside Learning: Conversations about Education - At Fireside, you can share what's on your mind about education. DigiFoot12 - home. Aprendamoshaciendo: Reforma de la Educación Panel con Howard Gardner. Únete a mí Miércoles, 08 de agosto, en una fase inicial, por un panel de FutureofEducation.com en vivo e interactivo con Stephen Downes, Howard Gardner, Alfie Kohn, y Gary Stager para hablar de la necesidad de reformar el movimiento de reforma educativa.
Con cuatro pensadores educativos pensados y articulados, mi trabajo consistirá en ayudarles a describir sus puntos de vista alternativos a las narrativas actuales que impulsan gran parte del debate en torno apasionada enseñanza y el aprendizaje en todo el mundo. (14) Constructing Learning Through Technology. Be you. Maker Camp. Quote Mimi Ito. Standardizing Human Ability. Here’s a thought experiment.
Let’s try to imagine a society (there were lots of them before modernity) where there is no interest in measuring educational success. Let’s imagine a society where the only goal of teaching (it’s a high bar) is to help every child master what they need in order to lead the most fulfilling life they are capable of leading—productive, creative, responsible, contributing to their own well-being and that of their society. No grades. No tests. Just an educational system based on helping each child to find her or his potential for leading the best (Socrates would call it “happiest”) life possible. If a tree falls in a forest and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? People like to say that education hasn’t changed much in several hundred years.
It’s hard to imagine a more dehumanizing or a more joyless way to work. There are some great things in that list. The KIPP model goes to college. The City University of New York’s experimental New Community College, which will have more resources, structure and paternalism, resembles KIPP’s model for charter schools, writes Richard Kahlenberg in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Like KIPP, the New Community College mixes conservative and liberal approaches. . . . students must submit to “mandatory full-time enrollment for the first year, mandatory and frequent tutoring and counseling … and very little choice in classes.” Virtual Handout. Browse > Home / 1:1 computing, Books, creativity, education policy, general, learning, politics, project-based learning, teaching, technology / Virtual Handout My latest book, “Invent To Learn – Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom.”
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