Posted in Classroom Practice, Educational Policy, crime, education, ethics, police, pop culture, teaching, writing instruction on April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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The Chicago Tribune finally addressed the issue of the Cary-Grove High School response to Allan Lee’s response to a senior English writing assignment. I add some additional quotes from the article below:
Involving the police struck Jim Barnabee as overkill. He is a creative-writing instructor at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire and, like most [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, Politics, Teacher Education, education, learning, school reform, teaching on April 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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A number of issues jump out as Chicago Public Schools fire 775 teachers, not the least of which is the simple fact that when coupled with a larger than normal retirement pool due to a program called Pension Enhancement, CPS will have thousands of openings in all grades and subject areas this year. [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Educational Policy, education, police, punishment, writing instruction on April 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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In the inappropriate action of calling in the “thought police” the Cary-Grove High School began a process that may cause Allen Lee’s life to be adversely impacted, perhaps beyond repair.
When I was teaching in the middle school I had an 8th-grade student who was a brilliant writer. She was also into the entire [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Educational Policy, crime, education, learning, police, writing instruction on April 27, 2007 | 7 Comments »
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Allen Lee, an 18 year old straight “A” student at Cary-Grove High School, was arrested for thinking violent thoughts and charged with two counts of disorderly conduct. Lee’s senior English teacher, after reading what Lee wrote in response to a “Free Writing” assignment was disturbed enough to report the incident to the school’s [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Department of Education, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, NCLB, Politics, Reading First, Spellings, education, teaching on April 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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The DoED press release clipped in part below is interesting, though not complete. There are also questions of trustworthiness of the report. One must never take a single study as being true on its face. Rather serious critical questions must be raised about why one should trust the results. Questions [...]
Posted in Bush, Classroom Practice, Department of Education, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, NCLB, Politics, Spellings, education, school reform, teaching on April 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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While I might want to argue that NCLB’s goals are neither laudable nor effective, the real point is that NCLB is fundamentally flawed and must be revised in meaningful ways.A movement to return the conversation about curriculum to the forum in which it belongs, the local school level with mitigation from the district but [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, NCLB, Politics, education, pop culture, school reform, teaching on April 20, 2007 | 3 Comments »
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Just a couple of things here. First, it is difficult to blame teachers for teaching in compliance with the law. NCLB stresses basic skills and not problem solving, Furthermore, NCLB places an inordinate stress level on teachers, so much so that they have little time to attend to things teachers traditionally [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Deconstruction, Literacy, Professional Development, Teacher Education, cultural literacy, education, literature based teaching on April 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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For the purposes of this post, I define ethics as representing that branch of rigorous thinking that asks questions about human practice and behavior as that practice relates to the good. On this definition, two positions stand out as being at opposite ends of the same continuum. Bakhtin thinks of ethical interactions as being [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Department of Education, Educational Philosophy, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, Epistemology, Literacy, NCLB, Ontology, Philosophy, Politics, Research, Teacher Education, beliefs, cognition, education on April 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »
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This week the American Educational Research Association is holding its annual meeting in Chicago. This important conference brings together researchers and teachers from all areas of the spectrum of education and, as such, is one of the more exciting places to be as a professional educator. In this post I am going [...]
Posted in Bush, Classroom Practice, Conservatives, Constitution, Department of Education, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, Literacy, NCLB, Politics, Spellings, education, school reform, teaching on April 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
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From Time.com
The first three months of the new Democratic Congress have been neither terrible nor transcendent. A Pew poll had it about right: a substantial majority of the public remains happy the Democrats won in 2006, but neither Nancy Pelosi nor Harry Reid has dominated the public consciousness as Newt Gingrich did when the [...]
Posted in Bush, Classroom Practice, Conservatives, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, Literacy, NCLB, Politics, education, learning, school reform on April 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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The issue is important enough to simply present FAIR TEST’s plea for action on the part of all concerned citizens. So here it is. PLEASE TAKE ACTION on this one. Save the children, save the entire next generation from a life of basic skills ignorance.
The Bush Administration and its Congressional allies [...]
Posted in AI, Bush, Classroom Practice, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, NCLB, Politics, Technology, artificial intelligence, cognition, education, learning, pop culture, school reform, teaching on April 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Study Says Tools Don’t Raise Scores
This report from the Washingtonpost.com
Educational software, a $2 billion-a-year industry that has become the darling of school systems across the country, has no significant impact on student performance, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Education.
The long-awaited report amounts to a rebuke of educational technology, a business whose [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Culture, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, Fascism, NCLB, Politics, education, pop culture, school reform, teaching on April 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Tests ’stopping children playing’
Five-year-olds are being prevented from engaging in traditional play as they are under too much pressure from the national tests, teachers have warned.
With lessons geared towards assessment, children are bored from the moment they begin formal schooling, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers warned.
What is [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, Literacy, Politics, Teacher Education, cognition, education, school reform, teaching on April 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Study gives teachers barely passing grade in classroom
Reported by USA Today, the report says in part:
The typical child in the USA stands only a 1-in-14 chance of having a consistently rich, supportive elementary school experience, say researchers who looked at what happens daily in thousands of classrooms.
The findings, published today in the weekly magazine [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, NCLB, Politics, Research, education, learning, school reform, teaching on April 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This post recently appeared on the National Education Association’s web site. It is worth a close look.
NCLB AYP: Fail Now or Fail Later
Study Predicts Most Great Lakes Schools Will Be ‘Failing’ by 2014
Most schools in the Great Lakes region will labeled “failing” by 2014,
according to a study released by the Great [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Deconstruction, Educational Policy, Educational Reform, NCLB, Philosophy, Postmodernism, beliefs, cultural literacy, education, school reform, teaching on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Slavoj Žižek (2002) writes, “The problem with the twentieth-century ‘passion for the Real’ was not that was a passion for the Real, but that it was a fake passion whose ruthless pursuit of the Real behind appearances was the ultimate stratagem to avoid confronting the Real.” Žižek is, in part, referring to notions of tensions [...]
Posted in Classroom Practice, Cultural Studies, Educational Philosophy, Philosophy, education, learning, pop culture, teaching on March 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Educating Alice posted a story regarding the Holocaust and Shoelaces. This story is important enough to read in its entirety.
I want to add my 2 cents here. I agree that we must teach kids to think about hard topics in a rigorous manner. Collecting 6,000,000 centimeters of shoelaces tied together is symbolic drivel, an act [...]
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