Adaptability and flexibility, important skills that they are, seem antithetical to the work done with at-risk youth in the classroom which is largely about preserving routine.
Not enamored with the fact that both Pearson and McGraw Hill have people on the board of P21, but that doesn't preclude them from knowing what 21st Century skills are. Though They have probably included some that I would choose not to: lobbying, collusion, and trust building.
Adaptability and flexibility, important skills that they are, seem antithetical to the work done with at-risk youth in the classroom which is largely about preserving routine.
I like the piece about being responsive to feedback.
Marleen McDaniel references beeting the US cyberlearning objectives with Onsophic. I wonder if she already has a grant or is just shooting for one in 2012
Just signed up for the email list to see how this works.
NBPTS comment survey for proposed national standards for science. Have to get this done before February 5th.
Sally Stewart's brainchild.
Big Picture High School.
Quote from Success WIthout College..
"Here is who belongs in college: the high-achieving student who is interested in learning for learning's sake, those who intend to become schoolteachers, and those young people who seem certain to go on to advanced degrees in law, medicine, architecture, engineering, and the like. Here is who actually goes to college: everyone."
From Mark Schneider, economist...
"The economist, Mark Schneider refers to colleges with these dropout rates as "failure factories," and they are the norm. While American high schools graduate about three quarters of their students in four years, American colleges only graduate 50 percent in six."
PDFs. It's where data goes to die.
This is a cool little tool to teach block programming, but yes kids definitely must be fluent readers. So what. So let the seven year olds play scratch jr.
"Books above a sixth-grade reading level, for sure. According to Renaissance Learning’s 2012 report on the
books read by almost 400,000 students in grades 9–12 in 2010–2011, the average reading level of the top 40
books is a little above fifth grade (5.3 to be exact)."
"In corroboration of this trend, national scores in reading have been moving downward for almost 20 years.
Average scores on the grade 12 NAEP reading tests were lower in 2009 than in 1992.
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In addition, average
scores on the SAT fell in 2011, “with the reading score for the high school class of 2011 falling three points to
497, the lowest on record,”and the writing score continuing its decline since the writing test was introduced
less than a decade ago.
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I wonder, however, if the average is coming down because we are bing more inclusive in our institutions and our testing?
A smart piece about European models of high school differentiation that include vocational education. Also, a critique of the politicized, yet inadequate, US policy on the same.
Recommended by Audrey Watters
"What a network knows is not found in the content of its
entities, nor in the content of messages sent from one to the other, but rather can only be found
through recognition of patterns emergent in the network of connections and interactions."
This ven diagram invorporates different competency for teachers and shows the overlaps.
User Interface is definitely no SV style, but hey, they are an Ashoka awardee, and they actually have a business plan. Are they really generating that much revenue from the advertising that it is worth the cost in aesthetic? Had I not read about ALISON in the NYTimes I would definetely have navigated away as soon as I had arrived. Needs serious UI help.