- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Building Long-Lasting Connections Between Teachers/Students https://dropoutnation.net/cts #edreform #edtech #
- On this week's podcast, I profile how one student is making Steven Evangelista of Harlem Charter School think over the use of #edtech .. #
- There's no reason why in the age of Facebook that teachers and students aren't building sustaining ties beyond the school year. #edtech #
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Building Long-Lasting Connections Between Teachers/Students https://dropoutnation.net/cts #edreform #edtech #
- @ToughLoveforX Because it isn't a big lie. If you are poor or lower-middle class kid is this country, a college degree is crucial to success in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Or one can say a college education is crucial to success, especially for the poor and middle class. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @dropoutnation Why? Because poor and middle class kids don't have family connections or the exposure to career ladders that those in reply to dropoutnation #
- @ToughLoveforX Why? Because poor and middle class kids don't have family connections or the exposure to career ladders that those #
- @ToughLoveforX from better-connected, higher-income households have. The only way to gain those connections is through higher education. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Whether or not you actually "learn" in college is an interesting question — and this is where higher ed does do abysmally in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX We can find the data. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX But I will also tell you this from experience — and yes, experience isn't everything (and it shouldn't be). in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Without college, I wouldn't have gotten the opportunities to gain internships which fueled my own career in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX and offered me the connections needed to get into positions that would have otherwise been closed to me, in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX I went to both a community college and a four-year university. One of my internships came while in CC in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX In reality, the doors are open once you are there. Organizations such as ISI and IHS (conservative) and even engineering in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX societies have pretty open doors to any talented college student. Whether or not universities do a good job of informing in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX students? That's a different story. But there are other ways of getting that information. The key is to be in the game in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX And to be in the game, you usually have to have that qualifier — a college education (at least two years, if not the full 4) in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX There are. But many students cannot get into those apprenticeships, usually for the same reasons why they can't get into in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX college: Low quality K-12 education. Also, not every kid wants to work in welding or machine tool-die, even if the jobs are in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX are high-paying. The key is to make sure every student can choose whatever form of higher education — trad. college, in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX apprenticeships, tech schools — are open to them. For me, it isn't about college being a big lie. It isn't. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX It's that the full reasons for attending college aren't fully explained by anyone, largely because far too many people get in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX into the "whether everyone should go to college or not" game. That's irrelevant to me. The answer is everyone needs higher ed in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Here's the thing: The same higher level math skills you need in college you would also need for apprenticing. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX A great machine tool-die maker or welder is also a great mathematician, the same as a Quant in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX on Wall Street or an economist. Essentially, you will need a high-quality, college-prep education because it's necessary in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX for all jobs. More importantly, from where I sit, who has the right to tell a child he shouldn't know Chaucer. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Even a plumber should and can know Chaucer. It's part of the cannon of western literature that shape our thinking. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX If you don't have a high-quality college prep ed, you will not do well in vocational ed either. Every job these days in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX involves as much thinking as doing. Try fixing a car without a diagnostic computer. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Again, it depends on how you define higher ed. Higher ed, to me, is the wide range of trad. colleges, tech schools… in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX and apprenticeships. They all involve higher level math, reading and language skills to get the job done. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX From where I sit, the vocational-versus-college prep debate should come to an end. It's useless to the kids. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX It's also obsolete in the economic paradigm. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX The goal should be all three. One must remember that the brain — including the part that involves self-control and in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX consideration of consequences — doesn't occur until age 25. So you need all three. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX I disagree. This is because, even among tech schools, higher ed is only so good at teaching craft. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX Ultimately, you learn craft in the working world. You use higher ed to teach you how to be prepared to do craft. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX For reporters, for example, j-school is useless in teaching craft. It is useful in teaching one how to think as a journalist. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX But even than j-school is simply gaining a well-rounded liberal arts education — including heavy doses of statistics. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX On brain development, read this: http://juvjustice.njjn.org/media/resources/public/resource_134.pdf in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX There's more coming. There is a lot of pretty rigorous science on brain development. The consensus: It takes longer in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX than age 18 for some of the "common sense" factors — notably those factors that teach you to avoid reckless behavior — is in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX to fully develop. Essentially, there is plenty of brain development going on long after the legal end of puberty. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX I'll have to agree to disagree. It's up to those who attend school to determine if higher ed, however one defines it in their in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- @ToughLoveforX own mind, it so expensive. This is why we have choice in the first place. in reply to ToughLoveforX #
- On the side of #CCSSI RT @tvanderark: Cruise the Core, they are well developed. Here's 12th grade writing #edreform #
- Of course, the problem, for many, isn't the standards, but who should develop them, whether they should be mandated and… #
- whether states will implement them properly in the real world. I may generally support #CCSSI but I also understand the opposition. #
- By the Way: Today is the 66th anniversary of D-Day. A pouring of Mimosa for our vets. #
- Also on this day: The SEC was formed, the first federal gasoline tax came into passage, the Battle of Midway and the Battle of Memphis. #
- More June 6 events, courtesy of Wikipedia #
- RT @Iglobalcast: The Dropout Nation Podcast: Building Long-Lasting Connections .. #teachers #edtech #edreform #
- A traditionalist gets it wrong. As usual. RT @jaketapper: Will: Baseball should not Overrule Umpire’s Wrong Call http://tinyurl.com/2f8cgb4 #
- In #DallasISD concern about "black flight" #education #integration #SchoolChoice #
- @elizabethonline Oh yeah. In an age in which we can clearly see bad calls — and this was a really bad one — MLB should do the right thing in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline Young Mr. Galaragga earned a perfect game that night. The umpire admits he erred. MLB should rule this a perfect game. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline Given that MLB can do as it sees fit and change its rules and apply them retroactively, they should. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline Mistakes are to be corrected. Atrocious errors should be corrected for the long-term integrity of the game. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline They open a can of worms? They may. But this one egregious example that is clear because we have all seen it. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline They can. MLB isn't Congress or the federal government. Or any government. They are a private organization. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline And private organizations change internal whenever they see fit all the time. Right thing to do? Often, no. But they can. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline Foolish consistency is, as Emerson would say, foolish. You can't fix every error in the last 100 years. But the last month? in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline I'd say yes, you can fix this egregious one. And it's time for instant replay in baseball. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline We have the technology to ensure better-officiated games. We should use it. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline If MLB continues to ignore the need for using instant replay, fixing errors, they ruin the game for the future. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline I know. But that's the argument so many will make because it is the kind of argument so many do make. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline We're not saying it's your statement. I'm just using an example. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline I generally think traditionalists love tradition for it's own sake. It's a POV that tends to ignore advances in knowledge in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline technology and societal change. This doesn't mean I'm against all tradition. In absence of anything better, tradition is in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline fine. But against evidence, it falls flat. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline I generally try to stay from hyperbole. But sometimes you got to make a point. You have to occasionally use the tools. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @elizabethonline Yeah. Understood. But then, I'm comfortable with knowing that security is a myth and facts are uncomfortable things. in reply to elizabethonline #
- @spedteacher Good point. in reply to spedteacher #
- @elizabethonline Understood. in reply to elizabethonline #
- EdEvolving: Tradition stymies #edreform innovation. Time for #NEA #AFT to accept innovation charter schools #
- RT @brandondutcher: Okla lawmaker fears #schoolchoice .."it will be charter schools or private schools publicly funded” #
- The Dropout Nation Podcast: Building Long-Lasting Connections Between Teachers/Students https://dropoutnation.net/cts #edreform #teachers #
- At Dropout Nation, Black Star Project's Phillip Jackson answers Three Questions about #edreform #Blacked https://dropoutnation.net/6p6 #
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