“Forty-six states and the District of Columbia today will announce an effort to craft a single vision for what children should learn each year from kindergarten through high school graduation, an unprecedented step toward a uniform definition of success in American schools,” as reported in the Post.
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Common Education Standards for 46 States
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009The Growing Dropout Rate
Friday, May 8th, 2009As “reported” in the NYTimes, “The soaring dropout rate is causing the United States to lose ground educationally to rivals abroad and is trapping millions of young Americans at the very margins of the economy. The Obama administration acknowledges the problem in its new budget, which includes a $50 million dropout prevention program, but solving this predicament will require a lot more money and a comprehensive national strategy.”
Mad Hatter Educator
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009For those of you that follow this blog, this topic of “madness” among educators is one that I’ve commented on frequently outside of this blog. Thus those that follow me in academia will know of this subject: The propensity of “mad” tendencies, aka insanity, among educators.
How We Will Be Different: The Reflections of A Founder, Part 2
Thursday, April 16th, 2009This entry is part of a series, The Reflections of A Founder»
In a word: Student-Centric.
Ah, the buzzword that gets educators to listen. But is this really new? Is just throwing a buzzword or two around actually make a difference? Of course not. The focus of centering around student learning has been around nearly 50 years and is the staple of practically every educational course in the market. We all claim to be student-centric, but are we really? Sure, teachers use multiple techniques to teach topics to the adoring students in their rooms. Any naturally gifted teacher does this and has done so long before a particular a label was coined to describe it. So honestly there is nothing new here; however… (more…)
Entries in this series:
- Why We Will Be Different: The Reflections of A Founder, Part 1
- How We Will Be Different: The Reflections of A Founder, Part 2
Why We Will Be Different: The Reflections of A Founder, Part 1
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009This entry is part of a series, The Reflections of A Founder»
Fourth Logic was started with an idea. We noticed that something was missing in education, an aspect that would be hard-pressed to easily fill. We recognized that online tutoring companies were limited in their scope and performance. Recently, these companies have discovered that they are focusing on broad generalized tutoring and have begun to focus (and rightly so) on specific core areas. While this is good progress for the most part, they have made this switch at the expense of other academic areas. This led me a few months back to write the article “Q: What What About the Rest of Us? A: Fourth Logic.“
Entries in this series:
- Why We Will Be Different: The Reflections of A Founder, Part 1
- How We Will Be Different: The Reflections of A Founder, Part 2
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