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• Compasses Or Road Maps?

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 582
  I read, hear, and even write a lot about “techniques” that are supposed to improve schools and classroom instruction. Often times, professional development books and workshops (and teacher hand-outs at staff meetings) are filled with zillions of them — how to use multiple intelligences, technology, specific ...
  6 days ago

• “Learning to Teach to Bridge the Achievement Gap”

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 582
  Learning to Teach to Bridge the Achievement Gap is a nice article about strategies that a California school is using to assist its students learn.  It appeared today’s New York Times. But, as I note in a post I have at my other blog, Engaging Parents In Schools , I have a “bone to pick” with the headline ...
  1 week ago

• Thoughtful teachers need to engage students collaboratively across the web

  
  Moving at the Speed of Creativity — Authority: 567
  This is an excellent thirteen minute video of ideas from Alan November about transforming our schools into the learning spaces we need in the 21st century. Find more videos like this on NL Connect Among many things, Alan says: We need to redefine learners as contributors. This requires a fundamental ...
  1 week ago

• Corporate Americas Answer To Everything: Re-Brand It!

  
  The Frustrated Teacher — Authority: 138
  Duncans Dunce Asks Jay for Help Peter Cunningham, an assistant to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Duncans communications manager in Chicago, is all nice and cozy with WaPos Jay Mathews (for the record, Melinda Gates is on the board of the WaPo Co.). Peter, Jay claims, has asked him about soliciting ideas ...
  1 week ago

• If Youre Getting Raped, Dont Fight It; Work With It!

  
  The Frustrated Teacher — Authority: 138
  From Jim Horn : Speaking to a student who had asked whether its fair to use test scores to measure schools when some students dont speak English well, Mrs. Obama said the tests are "part of the system" and cant be avoided. "You can fight the tests, or you can work with them and turn them into an advantage," she ...
  1 week ago

• School Reform’s ‘Odd Couple’ Interviewed on Meet the Press

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 613
  They’ve been called unlikely allies. Polar opposites. A political odd couple. And yet, at the request of President Obama, Newt Gingrich and Reverend Al Sharpton set aside their political differences to join U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on a national education tour. Admittedly, I wasn’t quite sure ...
  1 week ago

• School life with "reformers"

  
  Choosing Democracy — Authority: 120
  Feels Like My Heart Has Been Broken New and Veteran Teachers in D.C. Stunned By Their Dismissal, as Well as Handling of It By Michael Birnbaum Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, October 8, 2009 A neat row of Xs stretches down Eve McCareys performance evaluation, showing that in category after category, she ...
  1 week ago

• Some RttT Rules Ignore Research

  
  Advancing the Teaching Profession — Authority: 399
  Last week, the NY Times published an editorial, “The ‘Highly Qualified Teacher’ Dodge,” chastising Education Secretary Duncan for not pushing states harder to address the fact that inexperienced and unqualified teachers are disproportionately hired by high needs schools. The Times editors noted that ...
  1 week ago

• NASUWT Slam Council Over School Changes

  
  Ventnor Blog — Authority: 152
  Teachers union slam the IWC on changes to the Island education system.
  1 week ago

• Do Teachers REALLY Come From The Bottom Third Of Colleges? Or Is That Statistic A Bunch Of Baloney?

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 582
  In listening to the trio of Gingrich, Sharpton and Duncan on Meet The Press today , one of the things that struck me was this videotaped piece from Bruce Stewart, formerly the head of the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C.: MR. BRUCE STEWART: When I began teaching in the ’60s, we had that ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Newt Gingrich Thinks Students Should Learn

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 582
  On Meet The Press today , Newt Gingrich shared what I thought was an excellent description of what students should leave with when they graduate from high school: GREGORY: Newt Gingrich, what is the knowledge most worth having in 2010 if you are a high school graduate? What do you need to know? What should the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Style Over Substance…

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 582
  I just wrote a post in my other blog titled What Might Aesop’s Fables Say About Glitzy Media Parent Involvement Campaigns? It’s obviously geared toward some parent involvement efforts, but can also be applicable to any efforts or programs that emphasize style over substance. I’m sure we’ve all seen a few ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wordle of My Book

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 582
  Wordle is a free and easy web application that lets you paste text into it and then produces a “word cloud” illustrating the words that are used most with their size showing their frequency of use. It’s pretty neat. Here is the link to the Wordle for our book, “Building Parent Engagement In Schools.” I ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Truth Comes Out On School Reform

  
  The Frustrated Teacher — Authority: 138
  From truthout : Education Reform: Wrong Diagnosis, So Wrong Cure ... If Congress and the administration are wise, theyll use their levers of power not to tighten but to loosen the rigor screws and end the innovation-stifling role of Carnegie Units, course distribution requirements, mandated instructional ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Education Wars III

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 148
  There is little doubt at all President Obama is the most anti-public education president in the nations history . The fact he appointed his buddy Arne Duncan to the secretary of education post tells it all. Charter schools are by and large jokes; the truly scary part is existing public school districts are being ...
  2 weeks ago

• Reform Rhetoric Needs to Match Teaching Realities

  
  Advancing the Teaching Profession — Authority: 399
  A recent report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Center for American Progress identifies what it describes as “leaders and laggards” in efforts to reinvent our nation’s public schools. As a backdrop to the federal government’s $4 billion-plus Race to the Top competition for innovative state actions, ...
  2 weeks ago

• “A Parent Engagement Model That Works”

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 582
  In case you’re interested, Education World just published a short piece I wrote titled “A Parent Engagement Model That Works.”It gives a brief overview of my book. addthis_url = http%3A%2F%2Flarryferlazzo.edublogs.org%2F2009%2F11%2F11%2Fa-parent-engagement-model-that-works%2F; addthis_title = ...
  2 weeks ago

• Meeting Testing Goals By Lowering Standards

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 582
  Michigan State University Professor and author Yong Zhao has just written a piece on the “causes of education corruption.” I’d strongly recommend you read his entire post, but would like to specifically share a quote he uses from from social scientist Donald Campbell, who has developed an interesting concept ...
  2 weeks ago

• Want To Read A Rant?

  
  Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... — Authority: 582
  Syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrete just wrote a foaming at the mouth rant against public schools and teachers (and how teachers view parents). You can read my thoughts at my other blog, Engaging Parents In Schools. The post is titled Boy, Did Ruben Navarrete Get Up On The Wrong Side Of The Bed This Morning!
  2 weeks ago

• Imagine Schools Cash in On Education

  
  That's Right Nate — Authority: 422
  Dennis Bakke is on top of the education world.   As the CEO of Imagine Schools, he oversees the fastest growing brand name in the education business with over 36,000 students at 74 schools in 12 states and the District of Columbia.   He is rightfully heralded as one of the leaders of the education reform ...
  2 weeks ago

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