Tough Problems Need Tough Solutions Mr. Cohen reminds us of the most salient issue here when he says that “We are talking about the bottom 5% of schools; not the bottom half, not the bottom quartile. These are the schools for which all of the interventions of the past have failed.
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Steve Peha responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 24, 2010 05:03 PM
An Evidence-based Turnaround Effort Academic research and real-world experience show that the Administration’s “turnaround” requirements are unlikely to succeed. In fact, the evidence in Chicago and other cities for such interventions is of significant failures, making them a risky experiment with our nation’s children and schools.
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Monty Neill responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 24, 2010 03:05 PM
What Am I Missing? There is nothing in current law or the Obama blueprint that keeps a school from utilizing all the good ideas that Rep.
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Sandy Kress responded to Are The Administration’s Turnaround Models Too Strict? on May 24, 2010 01:21 PM
You need only watch the newly viral YouTube video of Greyson Michael Chance singing Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi” to wonder what would happen if the right people saw you do your thing. Indeed, it seems careers can be made or lost in the wilds of Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook
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5 Ways to Tweet, Post, and Comment Your Way to Success
In China there have been a growing number of attacks on schoolchildren. Just last week there was a man that was in the midst of a land dispute with a school so he took a meat cleaver and killed two teachers, seven students, and injured 11 others. This is the fifth assault in less than two months, which is causing not only grief but growing concern among parents and the government
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Attacks on Students in China
Now teachers can expect to get not only gets more students, but more relevant, serious, and potential student leads, and build a reputation too with the new “Follow” feature on WiZiQ.
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The New Follow Feature for Teachers – More Reputation, More Leads
According to a report by the Center for Public Education, for-profit education management organizations run about 16 percent of charter schools and are behind the growth in “virtual” charter schools, which operate online. For-profit EMOs have increased the number of virtual charter schools they run from 13 in the 2003-2004 school year to 50 in 2008-2009. With states strapped for cash, for-profit EMOs could be a part of the financial solution, given that they draw in private investment and have a track record of leveraging technology in ways that reduce the cost of education.
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For-Profit Companies And Public Education
“For-Learning” Schools An organization’s “for-” or “non-” profit legal status seems to me unrelated to its ability to help children learn. Some organizations are focused on learning, others aren’t
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Steve Peha responded to For-Profit Companies And Public Education on May 17, 2010 08:35 PM
Students can now follow teachers and keep themselves updated on the public learning objects created by the teachers they follow. The main advantage for students is that they not only get most relevant class, test or tutorial updates, but also teachers can quickly find and contact them.
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Students, Follow Your Teachers and Build Your Network
Analysis of NCTQ teacher layoff paper The Great Lakes Center has reviewed the NCTQ paper on teacher layoffs, finding that while it contains some good descriptive material, its recommendations are neither new nor easy to implement. Critically important is the defnition of a good or effective teacher
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Monty Neill responded to The Education Jobs Bill And Reform on May 12, 2010 10:40 AM
“Last Hired, First Fired” Kills Jobs Eight years ago a friend had a serious house fire. When the insurance adjustors arrived, they noted, “The fire department did more damage than the fire.” Let’s not do that here.
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Kati Haycock responded to The Education Jobs Bill And Reform on May 11, 2010 11:49 AM
Remember The Student-Kate Walsh Responds Kate Walsh, president, National Council on Teacher Quality, submitted the following in response to this week’s question: If a house is on fire, as mentioned earlier in this discussion, who do you get out first? The kids, of course. Which, in this case, means students—the true beneficiaries of effective public education.
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Eliza Krigman responded to The Education Jobs Bill And Reform on May 11, 2010 11:21 AM
Keep Unproven ‘Reforms’ Out of Jobs Bill Here’s another effort to push “reforms” with no record of success as the answer to our education challenges.
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Lisa Guisbond responded to The Education Jobs Bill And Reform on May 10, 2010 03:40 PM
Put Out the Fire–But Fix the Fire Code The first thing we need to acknowledge about the “Keep Our Educators Working Act” is that it will not keep all our educators working. With many states facing huge budget gaps for years to come, emergency federal funding amounts to a finger in the dike. Some school districts are so strapped for cash that they may be forced to lay off teachers this year with or without federal aid
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Ariela Rozman responded to The Education Jobs Bill And Reform on May 10, 2010 03:31 PM
An historian’s nitpick This is a bit tangential, but Andy Rotherham repeats a common myth when he writes, “schools happen to be one of our least equitable institutions and most of the real progress we’ve made in the past half century (for minority students, poor students, special needs students, etc…) has occurred because of federal pressure.” There are substantial inequalities in both spending in states such as Illinois and in terms of educational attainment and achievement, but the first half of Andy’s statement is overblown.
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Sherman Dorn responded to The Education Jobs Bill And Reform on May 10, 2010 02:25 PM
Over the last week, the oil slick that continues to bubble from a broken British Petroleum oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico has become a media star.
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3 Ways the Gulf Oil Spill Will Affect You
by Thanos Hatziapostolou and Iraklis Paraskakis, Electronic Journal of E-Learning Formative feedback is instrumental in the learning experience of a student. It can be effective in promoting learning if it is timely, personal, manageable, motivational, and in direct relation with assessment criteria. Despite its importance, however, research suggests that students are discouraged from engaging in the feedback process primarily for reasons that relate to lack of motivation and difficulty in relating to and reflecting on the feedback comments.
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Enhancing the Impact of Formative Feedback on Student Learning through an Online Feedback System
by Duncan Folley, Electronic Journal of E-Learning This research paper investigates if the traditional lecture is no longer appropriate for Neomillennial Learning Styles and whether an alternative blended approach could/should be used? Over the past decade the lecture as we know it, has gradually been under attack from constructivists, Twigg (1999) for example argues that the lecture is in the main a one-way process with little or no active participation and does not allow the student an opportunity to learn in a collaborative form. Exley & Dennick (2004) quote an unknown source as saying, “Lecturing is the transference of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through the brains of either” (2004:3).
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Online Learning; The Lecture is Dead Long Live the e-Lecture
by Max Calloway, Daily Collegian Several UMass professors and graduate students have been turning to the massive online community of “Second Life” in an attempt to revolutionize the way education is delivered online, and they are not alone.
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UMass’ Second Life: Do virtual worlds hold the future of online learning?
by Aaron Solomon, SWMV All-girls private school Harpeth Hall in Nashville has teamed up with some of the other top all-girls schools in the country to offer their unique online learning opportunities to more girls around the world. “We wanted to give that opportunity to any girl; it doesn’t matter if you don’t go to an all-girls school,” Rumsey said. “We’re also looking for students who are maybe homeschooled or a non-traditional student.” The Online School for Girls is completing its first year with only students from the four founding schools who taught the online courses.
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Top All-Girls Schools Offer Online Learning Classes