“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.
Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Common Education Standards for 46 States
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Teacher Asks Student to Cheat
Monday, May 18th, 2009HOUSTON — “He said he’d give me a hundred balloon bucks if I pretended to be somebody else,” said Vecino Rogers, a 9-year-old fourth grade student at Alexander Elementary School. “I knew it sounded funny, but I wanted the money.”
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The 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.”
14% of the US Population Struggle with Reading & Writing
Friday, May 8th, 2009From the Christian Science Monitor, an article worth reading by Stacy Teicher Khadaroo.
“About 30 million people – 14 percent of the US population 16 and older – have trouble with basic reading and writing. Correlating factors that were explored in a new government report include poverty, ethnicity, native language background, and disabilities…. Of these 30 million people, 7 million are considered “nonliterate” in English because their reading abilities are so low.” Read more here
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.
Bloom’s Taxonomy Gone Digital
Saturday, April 18th, 2009For all educators whom either know Bloom’s Taxonomy backwards & forwards, or for new educators who are just starting to grapple with its “perfection”, here is Bloom’s applied to working with technology. This article that is linked to is not only humorous, but also completely on point. Enjoy!
Detroit’s Abandoned Schools: Pictures of Plight
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Below is a link to the work of James D. Griffioen. He has spent the last year of his life documenting what has happened to the city of Detroit.
Click Here to view his incredible photography.
Obama’s Education “Reforms”
Saturday, March 28th, 2009By Lance Izumi
In his first big education speech earlier this month, President Barack Obama tried to show that he is a reformer, and not a shell for the education special interests that dominate the Democratic Party. While he had a few worthwhile ideas, others sounded good until one turned to the details.
“What’s required is not simply new investments, but new reforms,” President Obama told the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. Some of his reform ideas did address important needs, such as longitudinal student performance data from “childhood through college.” He rightly pointed out that such data can “tell us which students had which teacher so we can assess what’s working and what’s not.”
John Dewey’s Many Definitions of Democracy
Friday, March 27th, 20091. A political system, involving such institutions as “universal suffrage, recurring elections, responsibility of those who are in political power to the voters…”
2. Government by the consent of the governed.
3. An educational process.
4. An educational principle.
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