"We have known for many years that we need to improve our schools. We keep stumbling, however, because there is wid... http://tl.gd/7eping
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"A democratic society cannot long sustain itself if its citizens are uninformed and indifferent about its history, ... http://tl.gd/7epjhpanderscj
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"The great challenge to our generation is to create a renaissance in education, one that goes well beyond the basic... http://tl.gd/7epkguanderscj
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"Our schools will not improve if we continually reorganize their structure and management without regard for their ... http://tl.gd/7epmrtanderscj
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"Our schools will not improve if we continue to focus only on reading and mathematics while ignoring the other stud... http://tl.gd/7eppceanderscj
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"If we do not treasure our individualists, we will lose the spirit of innovation, inquiry, imagination, and dissent... http://tl.gd/7epqn0anderscj
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"Charter schools should be designed to collaborate with traditional public schools in a common mission, the educati... http://tl.gd/7epthsanderscj
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"Everyone involved in educating children should ask themselves why we educate. What is a well-educated person? What... http://tl.gd/7eq2tqanderscj
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Exactly what has been my mantra for the past year!
@dianeravitch how is your vision for school (from ch11) anything but a reversion back to what schools were like before the reform movement?anderscj
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@anderscj No, absolutely not. Current "reform" movement demoralizes teachers, will close/privatize many public schools. Stop wrong-doing.
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@DianeRavitch but isn't the current reform movement in response to a need for the system to change? Isn't the problem that we need to changeanderscj
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@anderscj Change in the wrong direction. Current "reforms" are failures. NCLB is a disaster. Charters set parents vs. parents. No results.Diane Ravitch
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@DianeRavitch I agree. But what change do we need? Nat curr won't solve most of our probs, esp those of bias in schls toward 1 kind of lrneranderscj
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@anderscj Highest performing nations improve education profession. They don't close schs, fire staff. They have protocol to help & support.Diane Ravitch
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@anderscj High-stakes testing is at the root of many of our problems. Testing necessary, but shd be used for diagnostics, not reward, punishDiane Ravitch
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@DianeRavitch btw, I loved your book. My ?s are serious ?s I am left with after reading it. I imagine they are the same ?s most ppl have.anderscj
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@dianeravitch just curious, have you ever been a teacher in a k-12 school? If not, how is your assessment of what i... http://tl.gd/7eqmh6anderscj
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@anderscj I have been a historian of American education for 40 years. I never tell anyone how to teach. I respect teachers' wisdom.Diane Ravitch
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@DianeRavitch @anderscj RESPECT~missing piece in Ed. reform.The teacher is the stakeholder with the greatest investment ~their value system.
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@DrLorMulick I agree, but so often that missing piece is the respect between teachers with different philosophies of teaching & learning.anderscj
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@dianeravitch don't you fear that a national curriculum might have the same narrowing effect as the testing movemen... http://tl.gd/7eqnl3anderscj
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@anderscj Natl curriculum in Finland consists of guidelines, not scripted lessons. Teachers have broad autonomy.Diane Ravitch
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@DianeRavitch I am of the opinion that the only real reform is done 1 stdnt & 1 tcher @ a time. Its not scalable, has to spread like a virusanderscj
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@anderscj I agree with you. That's why education is of necessity a slow, incremental process. No miracles.Diane Ravitch
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@DianeRavitch on the other hand, policy can be changed to make "true reform" possible. Problem always comes to contradicting perspectives.anderscj
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@DianeRavitch I think you might like this: http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2010/09/the-death-of-subjective-values.htmlanderscj
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@anderscj @ I've met hundreds of teachers and had little encounter with this as an issue. Most are too tired at the end of the day to judge.Lorraine Mulick
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@DrLorMulick I've encountered it, many times. Usually it centers around students who are successful in one classroom but not another.anderscj
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@DrLorMulick When I taught in alternative schools this was an issue we were constantly fighting.anderscj
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@DrLorMulick while traditional teachers in our district blamed students for academic failure we found a different approach worked.anderscj
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@DrLorMulick when we found different approaches that worked our teaching was called into question & routinely suspect.anderscj
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@DrLorMulick what we were doing was viewed as showing trad teachers their weaknesses but what it really showed was a need for diversityanderscj
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@DrLorMulick I often have had the same issue working as an art teacher in traditional schools.anderscj
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@anderscj It's unfortunate that our profession thats ultimate goal is collaboration has fostered blame.Lorraine Mulick
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