A Second, Parallel Strategy
Chapter 11
One Student at a Time
anderscj"schools must be relatively small because students and teachers must know each other well if education is to be personalized." Wolk
anderscj"standardization is the antithesis of personalization" Wolk
anderscj"Schools are required by law to provide all special-needs students with individual learning plans because they are ... http://t.co/SbGau8i0
Valerie Burton@anderscj They do deserve it. But what happens when the resources (man power) are unavailable. Whoops. McKneely :P
anderscj@MsBisOnline that is why we need school redesign and not school reform
anderscj"Personalized education is practiced successfully in innovative small schools that are devoted to teaching students... http://t.co/D7mFuc3N
anderscj"Much of the emphasis of the current reform movement is on better teaching, better instruction. But we know that no... http://t.co/Beapsk0i
anderscj"Because students learn best when they are interested in the material, schools should focus on their strongest inte... http://t.co/vDIGrr6q
anderscj"If the student needs to learn something to complete a project she is deeply interested in, she will learn it becau... http://t.co/PUWBb3Id
anderscj"more often than not, school sends a different message to students: What we want to teach is more important than wh... http://t.co/gyJH1Bqz
Many Pathways to Success
anderscj"There is something terribly wrong with an educational system from which so many participants drop out or earn a di... http://t.co/NH9tWPn4
pammoran@anderscj welcome back
anderscj@pammoran I only took one night off from this. But thanks anyway.
anderscj"As John Gardner once stated, when a society does not value both its philosophers and its plumbers, neither its the... http://t.co/iTRrZj7b
anderscj"Schools should recognize the success and value of home schooling and provide students an opportunity to design the... http://t.co/KImg20H1
anderscj"Unlike tracking, pathways give students a say in their own education and a chance to discover and pursue their passions." Wolk
Life to Text
anderscj"Arguably, the best model of education in history was the apprenticeship, where the novice learned from the master.... http://t.co/rmHGYLRL
anderscj"In general, however, we tend to learn best when we have a practical reason to." Wolk
anderscj"Real-life learning doesn't always have to happen outside of school; good teachers can bring it into the classroom." Wolk
anderscj"How is it that despite positive research findings and the testimony of teachers and students, real-world learning ... http://t.co/bIzbSArd
It's the Work That Counts
anderscj"The question is whether authentic, performance-based assessments are compatible with common standards and a common curriculum." Wolk
anderscj"As adults, we are almost never evaluated mainly on the basis of test scores. Our performance is assessed on severa... http://t.co/D7kzs98w
anderscj"I have always been mystified that parents would rather have their child's performance expressed in an A or a C tha... http://t.co/kqPUiu1o
anderscj"We have an assessment system that can be used to compare and hold schools and students accountable, but it is a lo... http://t.co/3iHbJEqw
Start Them Early
anderscj"Nationally, 66 percent of 4-year-olds and more than 40 percent of 3-year-olds were enrolled in a preschool educati... http://t.co/BM67Y60g
anderscj"Research shows that an average child from a lower-socioeconomic-status home starts kindergarten with an average vo... http://t.co/4GHR9lFN
anderscj"What is so often forgotten in conventional schools (if it was ever believed) is that learning should be fun and no... http://t.co/a6uCnnvg
anderscj"Students should learn to read by reading literature and stories about history, geography, and science [not Basal r... http://t.co/kmedDDOT
anderscj"Simply requiring students to spend more time in our existing education system will not improve their achievement, ... http://t.co/eEJ8eLdz
A New Role for Teachers
anderscj"High-quality teachers, whatever their specialty, have to be continuous learners, just as they expect their students to be." Wolk
anderscj"It does not denigrate the importance of knowledge to say that education works best when teachers and students lear... http://t.co/6iXz3m4u
anderscj"by taking responsibility for individual students in close relationships, advisors inevitably become involved in th... http://t.co/ZshndohV
Chapter 17
A Matter of Choice
anderscj"For a national voucher program to be justifiable, the demand would presumably exceed supply, and the result would likely be chaotic." Wolk
anderscj"As any enterprise without a captive market, schools soon get the message that they can only prevent the loss of st... http://t.co/sYreGqfl
anderscj"A charter school that is simply a conventional school with a different form of governance undermines the purpose of chartering." Wolk
anderscj"It is illogical to pass chartering laws and then adopt policies that stifle them." Wolk
anderscj"Critics of charter schools say they should be held accountable the way conventional schools are. In fact, they are... http://t.co/4JOBT5nD
anderscj"The question that should be asked is why a disproportionate number of minority and poor students are choosing to a... http://t.co/CbQ0PTmo
anderscj"Affluent families already have a choice. The 'tuition' they pay to attend suburban schools is the price of a house in that district." Wolk
Ron Amundson@anderscj Wolk looks to have some fascinating ideas, Is the book at the Rochester public library?
anderscj@mnphysicist It's a great book. Real new too and lots of references to MN schools. Doubt the Rochester Public Library has it yet though.
Ron Amundson@anderscj The chapter on charter schools seems to really aligned with today, scarily so. I'll have to see if MNLInk has it
anderscj@DianeRavitch Have you read Ronald Wolk's Wasting Minds? Wondering what your thoughts are on it. He calls you to the floor on charters.
Diane Ravitch@anderscj We disagree.
Schools for Digital Natives
anderscj"more often than not, virtual schools and cyber schools are essentially traditional schools on the Internet." Wolk
anderscj"Cyber schools are poking at the traditional structure and culture of the conventional school, but even they do not... http://t.co/EV4kj5Ki
anderscj"If schools cannot change fast enough to keep pace with the advances in learning technologies, learning will leave schooling behind." Wolk
anderscj"Jamming new technology into a curriculum and pedagogy that are essentially obsolete and ineffective with most of t... http://t.co/feNtZhpC
anderscj"I submit that new technology is being used more effectively in new schools that commit to personalized education a... http://t.co/uHzLpQU6
anderscj"Clearly, the new technology will be accepted and used in schools only to the extent that teachers understand it, k... http://t.co/iKNQY05j
anderscj"The potential benefits of technology in helping students learn are so obvious that one might assume it would be we... http://t.co/e7gj5Wv6
Conclusion
Can We Get There from Here?
anderscj"Except for organized religion, no social institution has changed less in the past century than public education." Wolk
anderscj"We need to adopt a parallel strategy of creating new schools of human scale that are innovative and very different... http://t.co/WUfbFvZe
