"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. A tad bit more of the article... "The push ...
As "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 ...
For 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. Carroll's "Mad Hatter" character was so aptly nicknamed for ...
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 ...
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