Will you get on or not?? This is the question posed by this morning's page one New York Times story by Trip Gabriel:? More Pupils Are Learning Online, Fueling Debate on Quality.?
Peter has already covered Trip Gabriel's NYT piece on digital learning this morning (and done, as always, a mighty fine job).
Districts in many states are spending the last of their federal stimulus dollars, and their strategy for dealing with the resulting fiscal pressure is: freak out and fire people.
Eric Felten, perhaps best known for his writings on music and drinking, was in the pages of the Wall Street Journal last week, reviewing the new book In the Basement of the Ivory Tower, which is an expansion of an essay of the same name that ran in the Atlantic
Get excited?it's Squirrel Week! Now you can be less upset about missing International Pillow Fight Day!
?Since many of the practices, values, and terminology?of the new reformers have been borrowed from the business world, it's also important to remember that what corporate CEOs celebrate as innovative isn't necessarily fair or just.'' *
This is either a cautionary tale about trusting education bureaucracies, a lesson in Internet lethargy, or simply the complaint of a crochety (former) journalist.
One of the nation's leading education economists, Eric Hanushek has a must-read story in Education Next, just released today, ?Valuing Teachers: How much is a good teacher worth???
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?Private school vouchers are not an effective way to improve student achievement. The Administration opposes targeting resources to help a small number of individuals attend private schools rather than creating access to great public schools for every child.'' *
I cried. It was only Babes in Arms, but the kids sang and danced as if on Broadway?and some of them actually had Broadway genes in their vocal chords and gambly arms and legs.? A lazy Sunday afternoon and I caught the last performance of the high school play.?
It's time to hand over the big tools to the little hands (even if they don't write in cursive anymore).
?What has increasingly been the case is so many people get pink slips, no one knows who or how many will get laid off. ?Its usefulness to teachers has diminished.'' *
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This post was a part of our April Fool's Day edition of The Gladfly! Please don't think we're serious about this. An open letter to Gladfly readers from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute:
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This post was a part of our April Fool's Day edition of The Gladfly! Please don't think we're serious about this. Follow a typical, Glee-ful day at Fordham
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James Surowiecki made the case last month in the New Yorker that the president's plan to spend money on research and development, infrastructure, and education in these glass-half-empty economic times makes sense.
To drink or to study? That is the question. Here's another one: Did you know that some grass cutters and stock clerks earn more than veteran teachers?
?So what this means is, is that our workforce is going to be more diverse; it is going to be, to a large percentage, Latino. And if our young people are not getting the kind of education they need, we won't succeed as a nation.'' *
