American Education in 2030 Paul Peterson: Only if Past Trends Persist Is the Future Dismal Simple extrapolations of current trends suggest that public education costs will rise sharply, pupil-teacher ratios will fall, and control over the education system will shift from families and localities to higher levels of government. Courts and collective bargaining agreements will also gain in influence. Meanwhile, high school graduation rates will fall, and learning will stagnate. Grover J. In 2030 curriculum is at the fore of education rather than serving as it did 20 years ago in the shadow of reform efforts involving teacher performance, choice, standards and accountability, and school governance. Daniel T. It seems self-evident that we can improve schooling if we tune education to the students' minds. Caroline Hoxby: The Future of Teacher Pay and Teaching John E. The achievement gap is not quite a thing of the past in 2030. Tom Loveless: Time Spent on Learning Williamson M. Eric Hanushek: An Evidence-Based World
Checklist for Evaluating Web Resources | USM Libraries | University of Southern Maine Is the Web a good research tool? This question is dependent on the researcher's objective. As in traditional print resources one must use a method of critical analysis to determine its value. Here is a checklist for evaluating web resources to help in that determination. Authority: Is the information reliable? Check the author's credentials and affiliation. Does the resource have a reputable organization or expert behind it? Are the sources of information stated? Can the author be contacted for clarification? Check for organizational or author biases. Scope: Is the material at this site useful, unique, accurate or is it derivative, repetitious, or doubtful? Is the information available in other formats? Is the purpose of the resource clearly stated? What items are included in the resource? Is the information factual or opinion? Does the site contain original information or simply links? How frequently is the resource updated? Does the site have clear and obvious pointers to new content? Other Tips:
Jordan School District Secondary Language Arts Core | Jordan School District's source for information relating to the ELA Core IN OUR SCHOOLS: Common Core - More thinking, learning UNION TWP. — Eileen Gorman likes to watch her students struggle. The eighth-grade math teacher at Glen Este Middle School in Cincinnati believes they will learn more that way – as she learns herself to teach the new Common Core, which many believe will transform classroom lessons, homework assignments and state tests. So on a recent morning, before her eighth-grade algebra students could sit down or crack open a book, Gorman gave them a word problem that included measurements of a toy snake, the kind that jumps out of boxes, and a question: would that snake fit best in a box or in a can of equal width and height? The students engaged in guided guesswork or, as Gorman put it, a “productive struggle.” This is a look inside the classroom under the Common Core, curriculum standards being adopted by 46 states to better prepare students for college and the workplace. The change will, advocates say, mark a fundamental shift in the way the nation’s children are educated. Marrs disagrees.
2011 World Clock POODWADDLE WORLD CLOCKThe World Stats Counter (V 7.0) This minute 250 babies will be born, 100 people will die, 20 violent crimes will be reported, and the US debt will climb $1 million. The World Clock tells more than time. It shows a live picture of our changing world. The World Clock is too large for a single page. You can rotate the map by dragging left or right or by clicking the left and right buttons on the menu. The menu provides several filter options. We show two types of stats:1.
The 5 Elements Students Should Look For When Evaluating Web Content March , 2014 In a section in her wonderful book "Understanding The Social Lives of Networked Teens" Danah Boyd talked extensively about the concept of digital natives and argued that this nomenclature does not really capture the essence of what a digitally savvy teenager really means. Dana argued that the mere fact of being comfortable with a social media tool does not prove that the user has a digital fluency to allow them to better use it for educational purposes : Just because teens are comfortable using social media to hang out does not mean that they’re fluent in or with technology. Many teens are not nearly as digitally adept as the often-used assumption that they are “digital natives” would suggest. The teens I met knew how to get to Google but had little understanding about how to construct a query to get quality information from the popular search engine. Learning how to evaluate online content is an essential step in the process of developing digitally literate students.
Home - The Reading & Writing Project Include parents in standards debate: Opposing view Across America, moms are rising up against the Common Core, national standards for English-language arts and mathematics adopted by 45 states. As Anne Gassel, of Ellisville, Mo., said, "Parents and their legislators were cut out of the loop. Even now we can't get straight answers." OUR VIEW: Myths fuel attacks on 'Common Core' standards Private concerns, notably the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, financed the Common Core. Although Common Core is regularly described as "state-led," its authors are private entities, which are not subject to sunshine laws, open meetings or other marks of a state-led effort. Through its Race to the Top grants program, the federal government gave states the incentive to adopt the Common Core and to use aligned, federally funded standardized tests. Those tests, with teacher evaluations geared to them, will act as an enforcement mechanism. Stotsky and Milgram sat on the Common Core Validation Committee, but refused to sign off on the standards. It's simple.
August 14, 2012 Our Space August 14, 2012 After 25 years of hearing the same calls for action in education technology, I'm throwing down the gauntlet. I started in education technology in 1986 as an editor at one of the early educational software publishers, Sunburst Communications (raise your hand if you had one of those traffic-cone-orange binders in your classroom). In 1992, I became editor in chief of Electronic Learning. My career took a slightly different turn in 1997. It's now 2011 and I'm taking up the helm of the venerable T.H.E. What did I learn? As I heard all of these things spoken at a recent conference, I turned to my colleague and asked: "What year is this?" Which leads me to the headline of this column. "What we need," Cator says now, "is a point in time to say, 'Okay, do we believe that digital learning environments will provide a better opportunity to learn for more students?'" After 25 years of hearing the same calls for action, I'm with Karen on this.
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