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College for $99 a Month by Kevin Carey | Washington Monthly
In recent years, Americans have grown accustomed to living amid the smoking wreckage of various once-proud industries—automakers bankrupt, brand-name Wall Street banks in ruins, newspapers dying by the dozen. It’s tempting in such circumstances to take co
Q&A: Private school confidential - The Boston Globe
[not at all reflective of my experience]
RG-F: Whenever students tell stories about the admissions process, they oftentimes will say, “Well, for most students their parents are involved, and they really don’t come to these places because they want to lea
What Traditional Scholars Can Learn From a Futurist's University - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education
As one participant put it: "This is what we're actually aiming for—to absorb as much of the genius as we can."
Demand for the program was stratospheric, with more than 1,200 students applying to fill 40 slots, according to the institution's leaders. Th
WNYC - The Brian Lehrer Show: College Dropouts (September 09, 2009)
cumulative effects of starting out behind the curve; ***important!!!** under-matching @7:30 or so; @19:30 - "wanting stuff gets in the way of finishing college"
Blogg-Ed Indetermination » Blog Archive » The Human Side of School Change: A Review
Evans had me from the Introduction, where he states: “…the futility of school change is legendary. Perhaps no American institution has been reformed more often, with less apparent effect, than the school.” Harsh words perhaps, but resonant in me.
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Can Separate Be Equal? | The American Prospect
[note assumptions here!!!] Any effort to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty begins with education. Four decades of research has found that the single best thing one can do for a low-income student is give her a chance to attend a middle-class sc
The Atlantic Online | September 2009 | How American Health Care Killed My Father | David Goldhill
[must read] what about us—the patients? How does a nation that might close down a business for a single illness from a suspicious hamburger tolerate the carnage inflicted by our hospitals? And not just those 100,000 deaths. In April, a Wall Street Journal
What Should Colleges Teach? - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com
if I have no problem with alternative ways of teaching literature or history, how can I maintain (with ACTA) that there is only one way to teach writing? Easy. It can’t be an alternative way of teaching writing to teach something else (like multiculturali
Why Does Daniel Pink Hate Me? « Generation YES Blog
Begin exploring here, with this comment, then the actual post, then the other comments on the post, then the links from the comments beginning with Robinson's video and including Stager-to-go's rant. If after all that you're still interested and someone's
The Women’s Crusade - NYTimes.com
There’s a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S. military’s Joint Chiefs of Staff to aid organizations like CARE that focusing on women and girls is the most effective way to fight global poverty and extremism. That’s why forei
How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education | Page 2 | Fast Company
[this is page 2 of 4] Today, "open content" is the biggest front of innovation in higher education. The movement that started at MIT has spread to more than 200 institutions in 32 countries that have posted courses online at the OpenCourseWare Consortium.
Do Teachers Need Education Degrees? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com
Should the public schools reduce the weight they give to education school credentials in pay and promotion decisions? Is this happening already, and, if so, what is replacing the traditional system for compensating teachers?
Opportunities for Creating the Future of Learning - 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning
The 2020 Forecast highlights the need for "schools" and centers of learning to be life-affirming organizations-for learners, their families, educators, and the broader community. Secondly, it emphasizes the need for learning to be an ongoing process where
College: An Overpriced Monopoly - Kent Pitman - Open Salon
The present US education system, enabled by business hiring preferences, seems to me to be operating on a kind of mindless autopilot, creating an effective education monopoly that is unchecked by substantial competitive options in the style, scope, and co
Cribs - Living/learning - High School as New Frontier - NYTimes.com
“a good education” can create an almost impossible gulf between uneducated parent and ambitious child.
Sen. Michael Bennet: "We're Falling Behind the Rest of the World.'' -- Politics Daily
the reason why quality of scale has eluded us is that we have all of these obstacles in the way of people being able to unleash their creative potential. ... We've been so prescriptive at every level ... from the federal government to the state government
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"Look, one of the problems is that we have is too many standards at every grade level and we're testing too many things. We're exhausting our teachers; we're exhausting our kids." For accountability purposes, I think what we need is to reduce the standards at every grade level substantially. We should benchmark those standards against international norms so we can stop kidding ourselves about whether we're actually being rigorous or not. And then we should design assessments that align with those standards.
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When you say what's surprising, it's that we don't yet have a politics that's informed by the kind of urgency that informs all kinds of other things, like whether or not the mayor of a city picked up the trash and whether or not he picked up the snow and whether or not we're filling our potholes. And we've got to get beyond a place where we expect failure from our school districts and into a place where what we're saying to ourselves is that it's not the fault of the bureaucrats or the fault of the unions or the fault of the families or the fault of the kids or any of that, and say instead that the greatest public good we have is our education system. We as communities need to own that and say, "How are these outcomes reflecting our values?" And if it's not terribly well, which is the case in a lot of places, then a question is, "What are we going to do to fix it?"
Op-Ed Columnist - No Size Fits All - NYTimes.com
Jill Biden said something similar about community colleges this week. Have to look into this.
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1909623,00.html Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F07%2F17%2Fopinion%2F
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Therefore, successful reform has to blow up the standard model. You can’t measure progress by how many hours a student spends with her butt in a classroom chair. You have to incorporate online tutoring, as the military does. You have to experiment with programs like Digital Bridge Academy that are tailored to individual learning styles. You have to track student outcomes, as the Lumina Foundation is doing. You have to build in accountability measures for teachers and administrators.
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