Twitter Book Club: Seymour Sarason (2004) And What Do You Mean by Learning? - Chapter 12

Chapter Twelve:
What Can People Become?

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anderscj"we know far less than we think we know about how contexts determine what people can become, which of them have ena... http://t.co/ES1YfLs 44 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"it is an indulgence of hubris to assume that we have learned all we need to know in order to answer the question o... http://t.co/VxcrUfW 44 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"When you read what the founding fathers, especially Jefferson, said about the necessity of education as a way of p... http://t.co/hK7jCS7 44 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"I want my child to want to learn more because she knows she needs to know more, not because parents or someone els... http://t.co/WhY2E7x 44 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"A policy for school vouchers is for a parent who wants what they hope will be a better education for their child. ... http://t.co/xzhiTLI 44 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

Twitter Book Club: Seymour Sarason (2004) And What Do You Mean by Learning? - Chapter 11

Chapter Eleven:
What Is Missing in a Voucher Policy?

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anderscj"If those who govern you do not and cannot know you, the needs and liberties of the governed are at best endangered... http://t.co/R8ppf1b 45 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"The word education is not in the constitution. That was not an oversight. It was literally inconceivable to the fr... http://t.co/YL37gIX 45 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"Many people today regard educational reform as a hopeless endeavor but not a serious one because somehow or other ... http://t.co/9qVRlto 45 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"It has long been a feature in education that innovations are either not subjected to any prior trial before wholes... http://t.co/Th1M0Dt 45 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"If in an educational free market nothing is said to help the customer make a more informed choice consistent with ... http://t.co/z0hbnrx 45 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"Teaching is not and cannot be a science" Sarason 45 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

@anderscj
anderscj"In the last year or so the refrain is 'We need better qualified teachers.' What is meant by better and qualified is never defined." Sarason 45 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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Safraze Narwaz@anderscj does this apply to free schools? 45 days ago via Twitter for Android · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj@Safraze I don't know. Sarason was referring to the educational rhetoric as a whole. I suppose to some extent free schools are exempt. 45 days ago via Twitterrific · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj@Safraze but, then free schools are often outside the sphere of national rhetoric anyway. 45 days ago via Twitterrific · powered by @socialditto

Twitter Book Club: Seymour Sarason (2004) And What Do You Mean by Learning? - Chapter 10

Chapter Ten:
What Do Administrators Know About Contexts of Learning?

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anderscj"The sad diagnostic fact is that teachers and parents do not expect such personal reinforcement for the same reason... http://t.co/OqDEeVU 48 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"The spirit and letter of the reverse engineering process are absent in school systems. Reverse engineering is an alien concept." Sarason 48 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"the higher up in the administrative hierarchy you go, the less the administrators have direct knowledge of classrooms and schools" Sarason 48 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"you need to know more than what a test score can give you, and if you take that seriously, it opens up new vistas ... http://t.co/84uzNAj 48 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"what passed for leadership was in reality a collection of bureaucrats who were essentially uncreative managers, no... http://t.co/VUboFVb 48 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"In the case of schooling there is not and has not been consensus about what the product is or should be." Sarason 47 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"although school administrators may have little or no direct knowledge of what goes on in classrooms, it is not at ... http://t.co/mmL0cmz 47 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"school policies and mission statements say next to nothing about learning and teaching." Sarason 47 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"many school administrators have little or no direct experience, and as you go up the administrative hierarchy the ... http://t.co/R0kEbaS 47 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"If that relationship is one in which the players do not feel safe to put their cards out on the table, it is an ef... http://t.co/vgTiYEN 47 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

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anderscj"Although [administrators] job descriptions emphasize leadership qualities and responsibilities, in reality they ha... http://t.co/Pz09NVP 47 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto

@anderscj
anderscj"Why is it we have never heard any groups say we need better-qualified administrator-leaders?" Sarason 47 days ago via Twittelator · powered by @socialditto