No mo’ money Education philanthropists are putting a lot of money into D.C. but they’re not going to be able to do that in more than one or two cities
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Joanne Jacobs responded to What Effect Will D.C. Teachers’ New Contract Have? on June 7, 2010 02:23 PM
Daniel Weisberg Responds Daniel Weisberg, vp of policy and general counsel at The New Teacher Project, submitted the following: Ending the Widget Effect in DC Schools Last year, we published a report called The Widget Effect, which documented how meaningless teacher evaluations encourage school systems to ignore differences in teacher effectiveness and treat teachers like interchangeable parts. This keeps them from recognizing and rewarding their best teachers, providing support that helps all teachers improve, or addressing poor performance
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Eliza Krigman responded to What Effect Will D.C. Teachers’ New Contract Have? on June 7, 2010 11:44 AM
Virginia decided last week not to apply for the second round of the Obama administration’s Race to the Top competition, in large part because of the requirement to adopt a common set of academic standards. The administration backs the Common Core initiative, a movement spearheaded by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers that has developed a set of math and English language arts standards.
We’re Pretending to Educate All Children At the Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW), we constantly hear from employers that their new hires are not adequately prepared, that they spend too much time teaching them information and skills they should have already learned in high school. Those who hire from more than one state face the additional burden that different states – and even school districts – are teaching different things and defining proficiency in different ways. We are confident, however, that the new common core standards just announced yesterday should help in solving these problems
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Arthur J. Rothkopf responded to Trouble For Common Standards? on June 3, 2010 08:53 AM
Kenneth Bernstein, teacher at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt, MD, submitted the following: As a high school social studies teacher in Maryland, I am not directly affected by the proposed Common Core Standards, even though the state has just signed on to them.
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Eliza Krigman responded to Trouble For Common Standards? on June 1, 2010 07:04 AM
by BusinessWire With Classroom Boredom and Distractions Topping the List of Daily Challenges, Schools Integrate Online Learning to Re-Engage High-Tech, High-Touch Students. Since their earliest memories, today’s “iGeneration” has been wired, Wi-Fied, mobile, virtually augmented and i-computed like no other generation before them.
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“iGeneration” Student Survey Reveals a Shift in the Way Teens Learn
By Sara Israelsen-Hartley, Associated Press The NCAA said Tuesday it no longer will allow teenagers to use online high school course credit from BYU to beef up their grades in key classes. The NCAA also announced it won’t recognize transcripts from the American School correspondence program in Illinois
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NCAA bars BYU online learning credits for high school athletes
By Yasmin Anwar, UC Berkeley Enrollment in summer school at the University of California, Berkeley, is shaping up to be a record-breaker. At least 1,000 more students are enrolled today than were at this time last year. Meanwhile 1,400 students have signed up for online courses, a 50 percent increase over last year
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Led by online learning, enrollment in summer school projected to be the highest ever
by Betty Cheng, Brandeis Justice Stanford University offers online classes at the graduate level. Some departments allow fully online degree programs, while others have a few on-campus requirements. The requirements for the degree are determined by the department.
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Distant learning offered by online classroom settings can be effective
by Kevin YEE and Jace HARGIS, TOJDE The Internet sensation YouTube (http://www.youtube.com) has become such a force online that it was estimated in 2006 to account for a full tenth of the bandwidth by the entire Internet in the United States (WebProNews, 2007), and to use as much bandwidth in 2007 as the entire Internet had done in 2000 (Carter, 2008). Like many technological tools created with entertainment or profit in mind, YouTube can now be easily and usefully adopted by instructors for educational purposes, and indeed many professors use YouTube in their classroom teaching already (Brooks, 2000).
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Online Learning: YouTube and Video Quizzes
by James Kelly, the Missoulian By now, parents are accustomed to the sight of their kids parked at the computer, uploading YouTube videos, plugging rounds into their enemies in virtual war games, and Skype-dialing friends across the country. But what if they fired up their Mac or Dell to master the quadratic equation, brush up on the conjugation of Spanish verbs or learn the atomic mass of beryllium? And what if it meant they didn’t have to set one foot in school?
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MCPS to experiment with online learning
By Shelley Widhalm, Loveland Reporter-Herald Whether you live in Loveland or Sterling, Grand Junction or Colorado Springs, Colorado Christian University is offering a new type of nursing program that combines online learning courses with classroom studies. The program is geared toward working adults who want to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. “We’re offering a unique program,” said Diann DeWitt, nursing professor and program director at the college
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CCU classroom/online courses are geared toward working adults
By Paul Fain, Chronicle of Higher Ed UMass at Lowell turns a $10-million profit, and SUNY at Delhi attracts nursing students. For-profit colleges are facing increasingly stiff online competition from regional public universities. Those revenue-hungry campuses are using the degree programs to attract both local students and those hailing from beyond state and national borders.
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Two Regional Public Universities Beat For-Profit Colleges at Online Learning
Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., challenged the Obama administration’s school turnaround models last week with the release of a report arguing for more flexibility in school improvement methods (see story here ). “The heavy-handed imposition of punitive measures in the current models run the risk of impeding long-term success,” the report contended
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Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict?
Take the Hard Road With all due respect, are we seriously having this discussion again? Pre-NCLB, we had “reconstitution-eligible” schools in Maryland that made little to no progress even under threat of state takeover and we had transformation schools in DC (how was that working?)
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Jeanne Allen responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 26, 2010 01:54 PM
Rob Manwaring Responds Over at the Quick and the Ed, Rob Manwaring of the Education Sector addresses the turnaround question.
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Eliza Krigman responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 27, 2010 10:54 AM
Not “Why”, But “How” Representative Chu asks why so many of us here aren’t asking why failed schools have failed.
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Steve Peha responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 26, 2010 10:15 PM
America’s Next Top Model Instead of debating the features and flaws of school turnaround models, let’s talk about functionality. What should a good turnaround model be able to do? A set of thoughtful criteria might give the judges a sense of what to look for when the contestants sashay down the runway
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Steve Peha responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 26, 2010 05:46 PM
In Response to Rick Hess & Others Howard Adelman and Linda Taylor submitted the following: Let’s talk about Addressing Barriers to Learning and Teaching and Re-engaging Disconnected Students! Hess and others continue to marginalize the focus on this primary and essential component by referring to it as stuff like family engagement and community health care. Much more is involved.
Flexibility=Failure We’re talking about the worst schools in the country that have been on a Needs Improvement list for most of a decade. They’ve had years of flexibility, they should be closed and replaced
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Tom Vander Ark responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 24, 2010 11:19 PM