March 2013 Blog Posts (140)

Principals Need PD Too

As I have started doing preliminary research for my dissertation I have discovered that high quality, relevant and sustainable Professional Development (PD) opportunities for principals (and building leaders in general) are limited. How is that possible? Principals are supposed to be visionaries! Principals are supposed to be transformational in their leadership! Principals are supposed to be responsible for the learning and growth for all those around…

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Added by Tony Sinanis on March 31, 2013 at 11:03pm — 1 Comment

Atlanta: We're All A Little Responsible

In 1999, many of my colleagues and I began writing about the perils of excessive standardized testing. I guess we should have anticipated the unanticipated consequences.  If only we’d been bolder and more courageous.

 

In 2002, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was enacted under the shadow of 9/11 when no Presidential initiative would be contested.  If only we’d been outraged when we learned the “Texas Miracle” upon which…

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Added by Jere Hochman on March 31, 2013 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Ways to Improve the College Scorecard Website

Ways to Improve the College Scorecard Website

In this Chronicle of Higher Education article, Amy Schnoebelen reports on critiques of the College Scorecard website (http://collegecost.ed.gov/scorecard/index.aspx),  which President Obama touted in his State of the Union address last month. While the website has been praised for providing lots of information and clear…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 31, 2013 at 11:49am — No Comments

Fire Teachers...Give Kids iPads? By Peter DeWitt

Fire Teachers...Give Kids iPads?

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Added by Michael Keany on March 30, 2013 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Value SUBTRACTED Measures

As New York struggles with implementing value-added measures for the purpose of teacher and principal evaluation - New York and other states continue to pull the proverbial rug out from under schools.  Governors and State Legislators could infuse millions of dollars into schools by addressing unfunded, underfunded, and unnecessary mandates.  Instead, they sit back and watch school district make drastic cuts that are detrimental to learning. 

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Added by Jere Hochman on March 29, 2013 at 7:33pm — No Comments

Honors Classes: A Need for More Diversity by Heather Wolpert-Gawron

Honors Classes: A Need for More Diversity

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Added by Michael Keany on March 29, 2013 at 12:59pm — 1 Comment

Ravitch and Krashen: Last Round in Common-Core Debate By Marc Tucker

Ravitch and Krashen: Last Round in Common-Core Debate

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Added by Michael Keany on March 29, 2013 at 12:08pm — No Comments

Is Grammar Worth Teaching? By Walt Gardner

Is Grammar Worth Teaching?

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Added by Michael Keany on March 29, 2013 at 12:06pm — No Comments

Independent Schools and Uncommon Standards By Peter Gow

Independent Schools and Uncommon Standards

Once upon a time I attended a workshop on observing and evaluating teachers. At…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 29, 2013 at 12:04pm — No Comments

Lincoln and Liberal Education by Christopher Nelson

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Added by Michael Keany on March 29, 2013 at 9:13am — No Comments

Are Schools Getting Tongue-Tied? ESL programs face new challenges. By Ron Schachter

Are Schools Getting Tongue-Tied?

ESL programs face new challenges.
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Added by Michael Keany on March 29, 2013 at 9:10am — No Comments

Are Teachers Overpaid? By Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers

Are Teachers Overpaid?

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Added by Michael Keany on March 28, 2013 at 3:29pm — No Comments

Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says By Hannah Richardson

Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says



Child in Dr Belton said children needed time to stand and stare…
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Added by Michael Keany on March 28, 2013 at 8:38am — No Comments

Teachers, Know Thine Impact By Mark Sass

Teachers, Know Thine Impact

By Mark Sass

3/26/13

InformED

The great divide in education reform today, in…
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Added by Michael Keany on March 27, 2013 at 5:03pm — No Comments

Speaking Back to the Common Core by Thomas Newkirk

Speaking Back to the Common Core

by Thomas Newkirk

The Common Core initiative is a triumph of branding. The standards are portrayed as so consensual, so uni- versally endorsed, so thoroughly researched and vetted, so self-evidently necessary to economic progress, so broadly representative of beliefs in the educational community—that they cease to be even debatable. They are held in…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 27, 2013 at 5:02pm — No Comments

Are We Creating a Generation of Observers? By Stephen R. Herr

Are We Creating a Generation of Observers?

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I think most educators have a growing sense of concern that their students are turning into a generation of observers. The many watch the few. Arenas and auditoriums fill with spectators, televisions…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 27, 2013 at 5:02pm — No Comments

School Leaders: Guiding Teachers into the Digital Age by Anne O'Brien

School Leaders: Guiding Teachers into the Digital Age

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Added by Michael Keany on March 27, 2013 at 5:01pm — No Comments

Common Core: Mend It; Don't End It By John Wilson

Common Core: Mend It; Don't End It

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Added by Michael Keany on March 27, 2013 at 1:31pm — No Comments

Involving Hispanic Parents in Schools By Walt Gardner

Involving Hispanic Parents in Schools

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Added by Michael Keany on March 27, 2013 at 1:30pm — No Comments

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