- RT @NHSCatAIR: @dropoutnation: Dropout Nation Podcast: Get Rid of Poor-Performing Teachers https://dropoutnation.net/h9u #edreform #teachers #
- RT @blackposimage: Truth is people can't recognize the difference between a stereotype, because they actually believe them… #
- RT @College_Success: WA State gets $17.3 Mn for #eddata system #edreform #
- RT @blackposimage: RT @lexy_229: Black people are unequivocally the most versatile people on earth… #
- Calif. denied #eddata grant Not shocking. My book chapter on Calif's data quality issues: https://dropoutnation.net/npc #
- RT @blackposimage: if we are mad because they using up airspace to not be positive about [us],… when's the last time you used your VOICE #
- Coming Sun: The Dropout Nation Podcast: Using School Reform to Build A Nation of Millions #edreform #grassroots #ParentPower #BlackEd #
- RT @NYDNopinions: Saturation point: The future of charter schools in New York hangs on negotiations… #edreform #
- At Dropout Nation: Read: All the Handwringing Edition: https://dropoutnation.net/7gm (ed reporting, #eddata #edreform and Steve Peha) #
- The politics of education at local level: The race, class aspects of the Carmel (Ind.) HS hazing (actually, rape) case #
- Mike Antonucci looks at dubious #ARRA II math being used to justify proposed $23 billion school bailout #NEA #
- Because you need data to do HQ teaching. RT @CharterInsights: http://ow.ly/1ODXZ $17.4 million for data collection? D.Chandler asks why. #
- This sort of anti-intellectualism among many teachers is silly. If you don't measure, and don't measure over time, you will keep making the #
- same mistakes in teaching children/developing curricula over and over again. #
- Data about student performance = useful knowledge for improving student learning. The issue is making sure the data is usable for all who #
- need it — from teachers to superintendents to parents, the last, who need data more than ever to improve education for their children. #
- Just 37 percent of #LAUnified #039;s ELL students improved their reading/writing skills, a dip from 38 percent #edreform #
- Caroline Hoxby on the secrets of successful charter schools #edreform #TQ #education #
- @CharterInsights The $17.4 million is just the seed money. It is the state's job to actually complete the build-out, not the feds. in reply to CharterInsights #
- @CharterInsights If one looks at it in context, it's no different than #RttT It will cost more than $700 million, for example, to take on in reply to CharterInsights #
- @CharterInsights all proposed reforms. But the money isn't supposed to fund it all. It's just money to get states to do what they should do. in reply to CharterInsights #
- @CharterInsights And given the cost of the average teacher, $17.4 million won't pay for more than maybe 150 teachers (including bennies). in reply to CharterInsights #
- @markslavkin That sounds nice. Until you consider how much the public spends on education. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin If a company spent $528 billion a year and didn't know where the money went or the effectiveness of the spend in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin it would be out of business. And if we were the shareholders of said company, we'd be up in arms. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin Or if it were the Pentagon spending that money with no tracking (and we know the Pentagon does this quite often) in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin it would be the subject of every joke on late night TV. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin i agree that schools can play a role in enhancing or crushing creativity and imagination in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin But if the kids don't also learn, creativity and imagination will just be empty vessels. Even Da Vinci had to learn math. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin And I'm not sure if you can measure creativity and imagination in any objective way. Not against measuring it. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin I'm all for measuring that and it is a worthy goal. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin I would disagree. Just based on the data we're getting from studies of TFA, we are getting a strong sense of the role in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin teachers play in engaging and learning, and how that could look like. The information is incomplete, but not exactly unknowable in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin Everything in history that we know quite plenty about was once "unknowable" and lacking a scientific measure. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin I also disagree strongly about that. The first step in learning is training, memorization, getting the basics. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin It's like sculptors or writers: We can't become creative until we know how to be creative. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin If you can't write a sentence, you can't write a book. If you don't know how to use the strings on a violin, you can't play it. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin Again, learning is more than just facts. But much of the learning — or wisdom — is gained over time. And not necessarily in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin something that can happen immediately in the classroom. Much of what I gained from my teachers came after I in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin left the classroom. Life has a funny way of teaching you the value of Chaucer and Calculus. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin We must measure. And we must hold teachers, principals, schools, accountable for their work. The kids ultimately pay in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin the price of laggard instruction, woeful curricula, when they are on the unemployment line or in prison. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin Why do the adults get left off the hook? in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin And from the perspective of teaching, knowing whether your students get the basics should be crucial to the work you do. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin It helps you figure out what is happening and why. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin Meanwhile, after a tour of a few schools — trad. public and charter — my view is that the test is the start. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin The focus on English, math and science doesn't mean excluding art and history. There are ways to successfully engage students in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin and still teach the standards, cover more than just what is narrowly tested. It is done successfully in many places. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin It can and should be done everywhere. Standardized testing isn't the problem. Lazy instruction and curricula development is. in reply to markslavkin #
- @markslavkin You are right. We need accountability for higher expectations beyond just the tests. in reply to markslavkin #
- Off-ed: Finally. RT @davewiner: The problem isn't really with Flash, it's the asshole-like way the sites *use* Flash that's the problem. #
- Off-ed: History in real time. RT @davewiner: Took a walk with my mom in Queens. Learned she saw Hitler march into Prague. #
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