Michael Keany's Blog – March 2014 Archive (62)

How Does PISA Put the World at Risk (Part 1): Romanticizing Misery by Yong Zhao

How Does PISA Put the World at Risk (Part 1): Romanticizing Misery

by Yong Zhao
9 MARCH 2014 

PISA, the OECD’s triennial international assessment of 15 year olds in math, reading, and science, has become one of the most destructive forces in education today. It creates illusory models of excellence, romanticizes misery, glorifies educational…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 13, 2014 at 2:12pm — No Comments

Common Core and Planning: Organizing a Unit of Instruction by Todd Finley

 

Common Core and Planning: Organizing a Unit of Instruction

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Added by Michael Keany on March 13, 2014 at 1:31pm — No Comments

Common Core: Guilty by Association...or Just Guilty? By Peter DeWitt

Common Core: Guilty by Association...or Just Guilty?

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Diversity: image and reality by Annie Murphy Paul

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Accountability and Motivation By Marc Tucker

Accountability and Motivation

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College President: SAT Is Part Hoax, Part Fraud by Leon Botstein

College President: SAT Is Part Hoax, Part Fraud





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Added by Michael Keany on March 10, 2014 at 2:30pm — No Comments

When Education Is But a Test Score By Michael V. McGill

When Education Is But a Test Score

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I've come to think that a school superintendent's main mission today is to protect teachers and kids from the ideological madness around us. If I can keep education reform from "helping" them, I'll have…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 7, 2014 at 5:26pm — No Comments

The false tradeoffs of test scores, creativity, and happiness by Brandon Wright

The false tradeoffs of test scores, creativity, and happiness

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Save Us From the SAT by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Save Us From the SAT

MARCH 6, 2014

NY Times



Jennifer Finney Boylan



BELGRADE LAKES, Me. — I WAS in trouble. The first few analogies were pretty straightforward — along the lines of “leopard is to spotted as zebra is to striped” — but now I was in the tall weeds of nuance. Kangaroo is to marsupial as the giant squid is to — I don’t know, maybe D) cephalopod? I looked up for a second at the back of the head of the girl in front of me. She had done this amazing thing… Continue

Added by Michael Keany on March 7, 2014 at 9:21am — No Comments

Music education valuable asset in school curricula

Music education valuable asset in school curricula

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This Brilliant Math Teacher Has a Formula to Save Kids’ Lives by Glennon Melton



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This Brilliant Math Teacher Has a Formula to Save Kids' Lives

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Added by Michael Keany on March 6, 2014 at 12:23pm — No Comments

PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED by Paulo Freire

PAULO FREIRE: CHAPTER 2 OF PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED

"Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat. This is the "banking' concept of education, in which the scope of action allowed to the…

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Parent to Obama: Why don’t private schools adopt your test-based school reforms? BY VALERIE STRAUSS



Parent to Obama: Why don’t private schools adopt your test-based school reforms?



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Added by Michael Keany on March 5, 2014 at 5:06pm — 1 Comment

Lessons From My Middle School Son By Peter DeWitt - Guest Blogger Lisa Meade

Lessons From My Middle School Son

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Thompson: The Way to Save Common Core (If It's Worth Saving)

Thompson: The Way to Save Common Core (If It's Worth Saving)…

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Added by Michael Keany on March 4, 2014 at 7:06pm — No Comments

How Do I Become an Instructional Coach? By Elena Aguilar

How Do I Become an Instructional Coach?

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Education lotteries redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich by Lauren Williams

Education lotteries redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich

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Added by Michael Keany on March 3, 2014 at 3:28pm — No Comments

How to focus under pressure by Annie Murphy Paul

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Added by Michael Keany on March 3, 2014 at 3:24pm — No Comments

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