After high school graduation many students decide to go to college, while some travel the world, and others immediately start their careers. But within those major decisions there are many other choices they must mull over and decide on. For example, whether to go to a local college or move and attend a university in another state or country
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The launch of the new Virtual Classroom has been very exciting for us with the team working last Sunday to deliver better technology to our teachers and students. We know that that there have been some teething troubles and we are aware of the issues reported
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Twenty-six states have now adopted the Common Core standards in English language arts and math developed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, and all but two states have expressed interest in following suit. The administration is pressuring states to adopt these standards, pursuant to guidelines laid out in the Education Department’s blueprint for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as a means of ensuring that students graduate “college- and career- ready.” But the jury is out on whether these new standards will be superior to existing state standards and/or serve to better inform education policy. A recent study by professor William Mathis found that “tests used to measure the academic outcomes of common standards” may lack sufficient research to “justify the high-stakes consequences that will likely arise around their use.” What’s more, the report notes, “states with high academic standards fare no better (or worse) than those identified as having low academic standards.” Conversely, a new study from the Thomas B.
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Conflicting Research On Core Standards
C(CSSI)aeser was Ambitious Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings
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Steve Peha responded to Conflicting Research On Core Standards on July 30, 2010 05:36 PM
Mathis Responds to Kress/Hess William Mathis, managing director of the Education and the Public Interest Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, submitted the following: Sandy Kress asks how I would respond to Rick Hess’ point. Hess correctly focuses on how money is used.
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Eliza Krigman responded to Conflicting Research On Core Standards on July 30, 2010 04:47 PM
How Would Mathis Respond to Hess? I appreciate Mathis’ point that full implementation does not come easy. But where’s the research that a lot more money will make the difference?
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Sandy Kress responded to Conflicting Research On Core Standards on July 30, 2010 07:33 AM
The First Link in the Chain Looking at this question from the Connecticut perspective, I am very much in support of the adoption of the Common Core standards as an effective reform tool. ConnCAN, in fact, prioritized this move during our recent “Our Race to the Top” campaign.
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Alex Johnston responded to Conflicting Research On Core Standards on July 27, 2010 05:52 PM
Different Answer for Different States Conflicting studies and the reality that we have yet to see the Common Core in practice prove at least one thing: the debate over the success of the Common Core standards will not end anytime soon. And it shouldn’t, because the debate is an important part of a larger endeavor to close the achievement gap and improve the quality of education for all our children.
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Rep. John Kline responded to Conflicting Research On Core Standards on July 27, 2010 09:40 AM
Foster Deep and Authentic Engagement We can all agree that community and parent involvement is vitally important in achieving educational excellence. The more interesting questions are if and how the involvement is contributing to school reform in new and innovative ways.
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Gina Burkhardt responded to Can Communities And Parents Help Turn Around Schools? on July 22, 2010 07:00 PM
Can you hear me now? You want to know a secret? Parents and community leaders have spent decades talking and pressuring and begging for changes to our country’s education system until they are blue in the face.
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Jeanne Allen responded to Can Communities And Parents Help Turn Around Schools? on July 21, 2010 06:41 PM
A Community Approach Civic involvement—from teachers and parents and from other stakeholders in a community—is essential to turning around schools. The question, of course, is how to structure meaningful involvement, and one answer comes from Philadelphia, where a sustained cross-sector collaborative—Project U-Turn—has made significant advances in heightening the public’s awareness of Philadelphia’s dropout crisis and improving options for struggling students and out-of-school youth.
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Marlene Seltzer responded to Can Communities And Parents Help Turn Around Schools? on July 20, 2010 03:05 PM
Parent Leader Gwendolyn Samuel Responds Gwendolyn Samuel, chairperson, State of Black CT Alliance, submitted the following: Yes. It will take the collective effort and resources of a community and its parents to turn around schools. Very often the decision makers around what students and their families need are not a part of the community that will be affected by those decisions.
Community engagement must be organic One way not to achieve effective parental and community engagement for school turnarounds is to mandate engagement into public policy. Community participation in school turnarounds needs to be organic. It must rise up from the grassroots to be successful.
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Chad Wick responded to Can Communities And Parents Help Turn Around Schools? on July 20, 2010 03:16 PM
Watch What You Ask For Just asking for more input doesn’t move the dial. Just creating more “parental involvement” doesn’t move the dial. Research does show, however, that when parents set higher expectations for their own children, establish the discipline for more work and effort, and follow through with their children and teachers in the work – this can make a real difference in student and school performance.
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Sandy Kress responded to Can Communities And Parents Help Turn Around Schools? on July 19, 2010 10:39 AM
The administration’s blueprint for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the law that governs K-12 education, calls for states to develop definitions of “effective teachers” and “effective principals.” Student growth and classroom observations, according to the blueprint, should be included in the definition. What do you think should define an effective teacher or principal? Will these definitions lead to systems with better educators
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Resist Narrow Definitions If we are to treat this solely on semantics, “effectiveness” is about outcomes and producing a desired effect. We all know that the current and most easily drawn measures of outcomes are standardized student achievement test scores. Many of us also strongly agree that these are a weak single measure of a world-class education, and of teaching more specifically.
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Gina Burkhardt responded to Defining Effective Teachers on July 15, 2010 02:19 PM
On The Path Toward Professionalization The impact on student learning in broad and comprehensive ways is a key element of teacher effectiveness. Yet we should reject the silver-bullet approaches that reduce the complexities of teaching to a numerical score that does nothing to inform practice or contribute to improvements in teaching standards.
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Dennis Van Roekel responded to Defining Effective Teachers on July 14, 2010 05:54 PM
Effective Teaching Means Academic Growth Checker is right that defining effective teaching is the easy part. Hopefully we can all agree that effective teaching means helping students learn what they’re supposed to learn—a teacher’s most important responsibility
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Ariela Rozman responded to Defining Effective Teachers on July 13, 2010 02:03 AM
Developmental focus needed My answer to this question draws upon my testimony to the Senate HELP Committee from April 2010 as well as a recent op-ed from New Teacher Center (NTC) policy director Liam Goldrick: The NTC’s philosophy on teacher effectiveness rests on an understanding that great teachers are made, not born. We believe that every teacher deserves rich professional support and collaborative opportunities, including focused induction during their initial years in the profession. Efforts to improve teacher effectiveness also must address teaching and learning conditions— including the critical role of supportive school leadership, opportunities for leadership and collaboration, and…
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Ellen Moir responded to Save Teachers Or Education Reform Programs? on July 16, 2010 02:58 PM