I read this yesterday!!!! It's just another reason to stop using textbooks. I should bring my son's 7th grade American History textbook to class for show and tell. The format (as well as the content) is horrible - all sorts of boxes and standards posted (although not really addressing assessment of standards - you know, how one can tell a student has learned). Visually, textbooks tend to be poorly written and cluttered. Interesting - when doing an analysis of textbook content, most of them only address less than 50% of standards (I was trained in alignment last summer - an arduous and painful process).
Also - how is this going to affect what seems to be the push for national standards? I guess they will be loose enough to sneak this kind of thing in.....
Oh - in Time this week there's an article (the cover story) about 10 ideas for the next 10 years. Number 4 is "The Dropout Economy," and although it has a kinda scary libertarian bent, I've heard this idea bandied around a lot even in my incredibly progressive, liberal town of Oak Park (where we are being taxed to death - really). Noted in this article is one idea on education: "Rather than warehouse their children in factory schools invented to instill obedience in the future mill workers of America, bourgeois rebels will educate their kids in virtual schools tailored to different learning styles."
Does any one have any good sources on standardized education? I'm looking for something on the difference between the rational and institutional approach to why districts like 129 have changed their curriculum recently. I have searched JSTOR and found 1 study by Ogawa et al but am needing more sources. If anyone could help... that'd be amazing. Thank you.
Michele Vogt-Schuller
Also - how is this going to affect what seems to be the push for national standards? I guess they will be loose enough to sneak this kind of thing in.....
Oh - in Time this week there's an article (the cover story) about 10 ideas for the next 10 years. Number 4 is "The Dropout Economy," and although it has a kinda scary libertarian bent, I've heard this idea bandied around a lot even in my incredibly progressive, liberal town of Oak Park (where we are being taxed to death - really). Noted in this article is one idea on education: "Rather than warehouse their children in factory schools invented to instill obedience in the future mill workers of America, bourgeois rebels will educate their kids in virtual schools tailored to different learning styles."
Mar 14, 2010
Ryan Goble
Ry:)
Mar 14, 2010
Ryan Goble
Mar 15, 2010
Fred Mindlin
http://educatedguess.org/blog/2010/04/13/zeev-wurman-on-common-core...(The+Educated+Guess)
Apr 14, 2010
Ryan Goble
Apr 14, 2010
Sarah Lavery
May 21, 2010
Patrina
Maybe edweek.org?
--Patrina
May 21, 2010