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17 Sep 09

Education Week: Draft Unveiled on Technological Literacy for NAEP

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28 Aug 09

Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow

Using Accountability to "Reform" Public Schools to Death

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ut an attack on schooling as we know it is generally grounded in
politics rather than pedagogy, and is most energetically advanced by
those who despise not just public schools but all public
institutions.
Making schools resemble businesses often
results in a kind of pedagogy that’s not merely conservative but
reactionary, turning back the clock on the few changes that have
managed to infiltrate and improve classrooms.
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- To that extent, even if privatization worked exactly the
  way it was supposed to, we shouldn’t expect any of the defects I’ve
  just listed to be corrected.
- there’s plenty of room for
  dissatisfaction with the current state of our schools. An awful lot
  is wrong with them: the way conformity is valued over curiosity and
  enforced with rewards and punishments, the way children are
  compelled to compete against one another, the way curriculum so
  often privileges skills over meaning, the way students are prevented
  from designing their own learning, the way instruction and
  assessment are increasingly standardized, the way different avenues
  of study are rarely integrated, the way educators are systematically
  deskilled .
- It’s a very clever gambit, you have to
  admit. Either you’re in favor of privatization or else you are
  inexplicably satisfied with mediocrity.
- But the
  word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
- But the
  word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
- But the
  word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
- But the
  word reform is particularly slippery and tendentious.
- The clarity of language be damned: They come to bury
  a given institution rather than to improve it, but they describe
  their mission as “reform.”

22 Aug 09

The Case Against "Tougher Standards"

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02 Mar 09

Education Week's Digital Directions: Tech Literacy Confusion

A growing chorus of experts say schools should add these forms of communication to their literacy mission as "technology literacy."

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By definition, literacy skills are those that everyone should have for civic participation; they should be skills within reach of just about everyone and be useful for a lifetime, Tyner says. By this view, including too many specific technical skills, high-level cognitive skills, and specialized workforce skills—even if valuable—would only make technology literacy more difficult to promote and achieve.

08 Feb 09

Top News - Tech trends every school leader should know

Rust identified four key trends that school district chief technology officers (CTOs) should be aware of: accountability, the changing nature of learners, the accessibility of technology, and the "internal and external demands" that are now placed on ed-tech executives.

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