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Education Reformers: Four Key Questions
Questions being ignored or inadequately addressed by the current business and industry-driven education reform effort: 1. Market forces in general, and merit pay in particular, are being promoted by leaders of business and industry as keys to improved school performance. In highly effective schools and school systems, educators see themselves as members of a team [...]
Continue reading...Education Reform: 22 Problems, and a Proposal
Friday, May 14, 2010
The "standards and accountability" education reform effort begun in the 1980s at the urging of leaders of business and industry, is failing. The reform message, powerfully reinforced by mainstream media, is simple: 1. America's schools are, at best, mediocre. 2. Teachers and students deserve most of the blame. 3. As a corrective, rigorous subject-matter standards and tests must be put in place. 4. Market forces must be brought to bear to pressure teachers and students to work to those standards.
Continue reading...Coming Soon to a School Near You: Big Ed
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Corporate America has given us Big Banks (banks too big to fail) & Big Pharma (a pharmaceutical industry too big to fight). Coming soon to a school near you, courtesy of corporate America: Big Ed
Continue reading...Why Florida Schools Were Left Behind in the Race to the Top
Monday, April 5, 2010
It came as quite a surprise for some when Florida was not listed among the winners of Race to the Top. What went wrong? A look at Senate Bill 6 & House Bill 7189, reveals Florida's failure to collaborate.
Continue reading...Duncan, Sharpton, and Gingrich on Meet the Press
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Education Secretary Arne Duncan, Rev Al Sharpton, and former speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich discuss learning, accountability, Race to the Top, and their bipartisan effort to affect change in our education system. (I first saw this clip on The Efficacy Institute’s website.)
Continue reading...Curiosity: The Curricular Cindarella
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Curiously, curiosity is no-where to be found in reform measures being debated today. Rather, curiosity is left to scrub the proverbial floors of our education institutions. It’s the forgotten and malnourished stepdaughter of NCLB and mistreated stepsister of Race to the Top. Click on some of the speeches by President Obama and Secretary Duncan and [...]
Continue reading...Dick Cheney’s IB Program: Intimidate from the Bottom
Friday, September 4, 2009
Cheney as the US Inquisitor General of Education, Part 3 (Part 1, Part 2) In a rare slip of Cheney’s iron-fisted totalitarianism, a document from the desk of our nation’s Inquisitor General of Education was leaked to the press yesterday. The document outlines what appears to be plans for a supplemental program in support of [...]
Continue reading...The President’s Race to the Top
Thursday, August 27, 2009
On July 29th, 2009, the Department of Education announced the release of a competitive grant program available all states called Race to the Top, or the State Incentive Grant Fund. This program provides 4.3 billion dollars in grant monies to states that demonstrate “significant education reforms across four assurance areas.” 50% of these monies will [...]
Continue reading...Race to the Top Jumpstarts Education Debate
Monday, August 17, 2009
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has laid out qualifications for entry in the $4.35 billion grant contest, but has left some educators questioning whether states’ efforts to improve education will make a positive impact on their schools.
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