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Why Education Is Not Like Medicine

Ed Week

There are three bad ideas popular among education writers in the United States right now. First is the idea that American public education should learn from the medical profession. Second is…

It's Back to School Time and professional development is on the menu with specialties, such as instructional practices, protocols, and materials to impact teaching and learning. School districts and consultants prepare for the event to inspire staff to embrace…

Here is a post about an upcoming educational technology conference.  The principal hosting the conference was quoted last weekend in USA Weekend.  Read his tips for parents and visit his…

Well, for people who are in charge of our public schools and think they're doing a GREAT job, I would agree that this article is totally irrelevant.

I write articles for people who know that things are not ideal or even close to ideal. But they don't know quite why. And they need ways to explain it to parents, teachers, administrators, and the community.

This is a fairly lively little article called "…

Keys to Effective Professional Development

In this Journal of Staff Development article, Laura Thomas (Antioch Center for School Reform, Keene, NH) shares her insights on what makes for effective (and ineffective) professional learning:

• Survey teachers and use their input to drive professional development.
• Plan on multiple sessions and follow up with small-group discussion and…

Increasing the Content Focus of Teacher Evaluation

In this Harvard Educational Review article, Heather Hill (Harvard Graduate School of Education) and Pam Grossman (Stanford Graduate School of Education) argue that teacher evaluation needs to (a) use subject-specific observation instruments, (b) involve more content experts, and (c) design systems “in which feedback from observations is both accurate and usable in the service of improving…

When speaking to your own children or students about the fiftieth anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech,  why not read Doreen Rappaport's, Martin's Big Words?

Happy reading,

Christine

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The Risk Pool

By JENNIFER FINNEY BOYLAN

Do you believe in teaching more, not less?

Yes? Well, you are certainly an oddball. Our entire public school system is devoted to the idea that children should learn less each year. Less, always less.

They used to have to know the names of the state capitals. Then they had to know the names of the states. Then they had to know the name of the country. Ah, the good old days.

If you haven't been keeping a close eye on our Education Establishment,…