Michael Keany's Blog – June 2014 Archive (50)

Bad Medicine - What Would Happen If Ed Reform Strategies were Applied to Health Care from EduShyster





Bad Medicine



The Obama administration prescribes pay-for-performance for doctors. What could possibly go…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 6, 2014 at 9:02am — No Comments

The problem with 'grit'

The problem with 'grit'
The "new character education" has thousands of administrators, teachers, and parents convinced that qualities such as perseverance, discipline, and self-control trump IQ in determining academic success, writes Jeffrey Aaron Snyder for The New Republic. Yet Snyder finds major problems with this premise. First, we don't know how to teach character. We have an increasingly cogent "science of character," but no "science of teaching…
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Added by Michael Keany on June 5, 2014 at 9:02am — No Comments

Falling short on our egalitarian system

Falling short on our egalitarian system

In the national mythology, few ideas are more revered than education's power to overcome entrenched inequality, writes Eduardo Porter in The New York Times. While often falling short of the ideal, the United States at one time aimed to provide universal, comprehensive education, an egalitarian system to put elite European systems to shame -- but no longer. Not only do American standards trail those of other industrial…
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Added by Michael Keany on June 5, 2014 at 9:00am — No Comments

Racism's compound interest

Racism's compound interest

The legacy of slavery and segregation in this country has benefitted many for years on a principle similar to compound interest, writes Ezra Klein for Vox. White America has, for centuries, used force, racist laws, biased courts, and housing segregation to build wealth, stealing the work of African Americans and then, when that became illegal, plundering their work and assets. And then it let compound interest work its magic. Today,…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 5, 2014 at 8:59am — No Comments

Should Teachers Stop Fighting for Tenure? by Matthew Lynch



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Added by Michael Keany on June 5, 2014 at 8:33am — No Comments

How we make progress by Annie Murphy Paul

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Added by Michael Keany on June 4, 2014 at 9:52am — No Comments

Should teen pregnancy be highlighted in yearbooks?

Should teen pregnancy be highlighted in yearbooks?
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Added by Michael Keany on June 4, 2014 at 8:30am — No Comments

The Case for the New Kindergarten: Challenging and Playful By Daphna Bassok, Amy Claessens, and Mimi Engel

The Case for the New Kindergarten: Challenging and Playful

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Kindergarten in the United States is not what it used to be. For one…

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Added by Michael Keany on June 3, 2014 at 7:13pm — No Comments

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