RSS

robertogreco + publicschools   100

Yong Zhao in Conversation: Education Should Liberate, Not Indoctrinate - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher
"Using standardized tests to measure student performance in a few subjects distorts the whole picture of education, confuses test scores with real education that prepares competent and responsible citizens, and reduces education to test preparation. These simplistic accountability measures distract policy makers, educators, parents, and students from addressing what really matters in education, waste precious political and financial assets, and unfairly blames educators for societal problems. The lack of faith in public education could lead to the demise of the great American tradition--a decentralized public education system that strives to educate all children in their local context…

I think educators have to shoulder the responsibilities of public intellectuals--we need to advocate, educate, and act…"

[See aslo: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/05/yong_zhao_common_core.html ]
standards  accountability  assessment  publicschools  schools  2012  well-being  learning  teaching  policy  commoncore  standardizedtesting  standardization  us  education  yongzhao  from delicious
19 days ago by robertogreco
Now I Understand Why Bill Gates Didn’t Want The Value-Added Data Made Public « GFBrandenburg's Blog
"In any introductory statistics course, you learn that a graph like the one below is a textbook case of “no correlation”. I had Excel draw a line of best fit anyway, and calculate an r-squared correlation coefficient. Its value? 0.057 — once again, just about as close to zero correlation as you are ever going to find in the real world.

In plain English, what that means is that there is essentially no such thing as a teacher who is consistently wonderful (or awful) on this extremely complicated measurement scheme. How teacher X does one year in “value-added” in no way allows anybody to predict how teacher X will do the next year. They could do much worse, they could do much better, they could do about the same.

Even I find this to be an amazing revelation. What about you?

And to think that I’m not making any of this up. (unlike Michelle Rhee, who loves to invent statistics and “facts”.)"
publicschools  education  politics  lies  policy  correlation  statistics  learning  teaching  michellerhee  valueadded  schools  nyc  2012  via:tom.hoffman  billgates  from delicious
12 weeks ago by robertogreco
n+1: Learning in Freedom
"I never say everyone should unschool or that we should replicate Albany Free School, which I don’t think could scale in its current formation (it depends, for example, on a volunteer ethos I don’t think we can or should expect from our educators)…foundation of unschooling philosophy is idea that we are, to quote John Holt, “learning animals,” & that we should tap into people’s intrinsic motivation to explore & understand the world…

…most liberal parents are desperate to help their children climb to the top of the meritocracy…top of an exclusionary pyramid…largely been rigged in their favor all along. How liberal is that? One of the virtues of unschooling, of the radical philosophy that underpins it, is that it calls the entire hierarchy into question…

Today, conventional wisdom has it that the solution is more, never less.

…taking a closer look at radical margins may help us ask better questions about what we really want from our educational system…how to go about getting it."
whiteflight  publicschools  schooliness  schooling  schools  homeschool  children  parenting  learning  education  segregation  diversity  policy  2012  albanyfreeschool  johnholt  society  deschooling  competition  meritocracy  liberals  danagoldstein  publiceducation  astrataylor  unschooling  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Affluent Foreign-Born Parents in N.Y. Prefer Public Schools - NYTimes.com
"In New York, the affluent typically send their children to private schools. But not the foreign-born affluent. In a divergence, a large majority of wealthy foreign-born New Yorkers are sending their children to public schools, according to an analysis of census data.

There are roughly 15,500 households in the city with school-age children where the total income is at least $150,000 and both parents were born abroad. Of those, about 10,500, or 68 percent, use only the public schools, the data show.

That is nearly double the rate of American-born parents in the city in the same income bracket."
immigrants  foreign-born  2012  diversity  publicschools  chilren  schools  wealth  income  education  parenting  nyc  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Better Test Scores Lead to Better Lives and Strong Economy: Fact or Hunch? | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
"To say “tread carefully” and “proceed with care” after three decades of steel-toed boots stomping of public schools, not to mention, the transfer of an audit culture soaked in high tech from the corporate sector to national educational policy is, well, almost funny. It is, at the least,  a disappointing end to  such a clear laying out of the assumptions embedded in the reigning “tough love” reform ideology in which Mike Petrilli has been a card-carrying member."
via:tom.hoffman  ideology  policy  education  schools  us  publicschools  testing  standardizedtesting  commoncore  nclb  rttt  mikepetrilli  2012 
february 2012 by robertogreco
Keynote Address - Dr. Lawrence H. Summers on Schools for Tomorrow - Session A - live streaming video powered by Livestream
Not a fan of Larry Summers, but he gets *a lot* right here.
larrysummers  education  policy  future  tcsnmy  learning  2011  us  economics  publicschools  publiceducation  teaching  lcproject  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Seth's Blog: Back to (the wrong) school
"As we get ready for the 93rd year of universal public education, here’s the question every parent and taxpayer needs to wrestle with: Are we going to applaud, push or even permit our schools (including most of the private ones) to continue the safe but ultimately doomed strategy of churning out predictable, testable and mediocre factory-workers?<br />
<br />
As long as we embrace (or even accept) standardized testing, fear of science, little attempt at teaching leadership and most of all, the bureaucratic imperative to turn education into a factory itself, we’re in big trouble.<br />
<br />
The post-industrial revolution is here. Do you care enough to teach your kids to take advantage of it?"
education  learning  schools  reform  sethgodin  2011  publicschools  factoryschools  criticalthinking  unschooling  deschooling  tcsnmy  lcproject  teaching  from delicious
september 2011 by robertogreco
Teacher turnover and the stress of reform - latimes.com
"Is high turnover indeed correlated to lower achievement in these schools? If not — if some schools are burning through teachers but excelling academically nonetheless — how does this affect our view of the teaching profession? Are teachers disposable employees? That would be the cheaper route, but a depressingly disrespectful one that over time would practically guarantee that bright young college students would steer clear of the education field, especially when it involves teaching the students who most need help.<br />
<br />
It's unlikely that we can build large-scale school reform on a platform of continual new demands on teachers — more time, more energy, more dedication, more accountability — even if schools find ways to pay them better. This, not the relatively small number of truly bad teachers, is the bigger teaching challenge facing schools. We need a more useful answer to the Berkeley study than, "Yeah, it really is hard work.""
teaching  education  burnout  charters  2011  research  work  stress  tenure  reform  schools  publicschools  from delicious
august 2011 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: SOS March: Why Barack Obama could not find One Hour for America's teachers
"Yet therein lies the problem. Barack Obama is not an evil guy, but he is not a guy who really cares either. Watching Obama on poverty, yes, but especially on education, one is forced to realize that all his community organizing, all his time in rough neighborhoods in New York and Chicago, were the kind of resume preparation all too common in the Teach for America cohort, rather than a genuine, Bobby Kennedy style, interest in discovering the "other America."<br />
<br />
So, if giving education over to Wall Street turns on the spigots of campaign contributions, that is more important to him than the students who fill our classrooms. He doesn't actually wish these kids harm, not at all, he just doesn't perceive the lives of our children as a very important thing in his life.<br />
<br />
Which is why he sat in the White House today, hoping John Boehner would call, rather than picking up his Blackberry, and walking outside."
sosmarch  barackobama  2011  lindadarling-hammond  arneduncan  priorities  poverty  us  policy  politics  money  education  schools  publicschools  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Guiding Principles :: Save Our Schools March and National Call to Action
"For the future of our children, we demand:<br />
<br />
Equitable funding for all public school communities<br />
<br />
An end to high stakes testing used for the purpose of student, teacher, and school evaluation<br />
<br />
Teacher, family and community leadership in forming public education policies<br />
<br />
Curriculum developed for and by local school communities"<br />
<br />
[Click through for sub-points under each of the above.]
education  2011  sosmarch  washingtondc  protest  dc  policy  politics  funding  teaching  learning  schools  publicschools  libraries  assessment  standardizedtesting  local  leadership  classsize  curriculum  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Budgeting for Ignorance | Truthout
"Will Rogers said that when Congress is in session, the public gets the same panicky feeling as "when the baby gets hold of a hammer."<br />
<br />
Rogers' observation can also be applied to the mayhem that has broken out in various smash-happy state legislatures. All across the country, right-wing zealots are wielding their little ideological hammers to destroy common sense and wreck the common good. These anti-government extremists are going after everything from the basic rights of workers to our crucial environmental protections.<br />
<br />
Their most shameful assault, however, is on our public schools. They're not merely clobbering teachers and shattering education budgets; they're after the very idea of public education. A few years ago, Debbie Riddle, a boneheaded Texas legislator, asked: "Where did this idea come from that everybody deserves free education?" The Republican then sputtered that "It comes from Moscow, from Russia. It comes straight out of the pit of hell."…"
2011  jimhightower  education  publicschools  policy  politics  government  us  edreform  rightwing  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
The Finland Phenomenon – a film about schools « Cooperative Catalyst [Great detail in the post, some valuable comments too]
"key takeaways…<br />
1. Finland does not have high stakes tests<br />
2. …worked to develop national consensus about public schools<br />
3. Having made a commitment to public schools…few private schools.<br />
4. …RE accountability, Finns point out they…don't have tests nor an inspectorate…find trusting people leads to them being accountable…<br />
5. …don't have incredibly thick collections of national standards…have small collections of broadly defined standards, & allow local implementation.<br />
6. Qualifying to become teacher is difficult<br />
7. Teachers are well trained, supported, & given time to reflect…including during school day.<br />
8. Finns start school later in life than we do<br />
9. …little homework.<br />
10. …meaningful technical education in Finnish Schools<br />
<br />
[Also]…All students in primary & secondary schools get free meals…grow up learning Swedish & English as well as Finnish…health care in the schools…teaching force is 100% unionized. Administrators function in support of teachers, not in opposition."
education  schools  teaching  film  finland  2011  politics  policy  us  learning  standardizedtesting  testing  accountability  control  publicschools  standards  nationalstandards  trust  unions  professionalism  professionaldevelopment  reflection  poverty  healthcare  homework  training  support  technicalschools  vocational  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Audio Recordings of John Holt
"This early interview of John, done in Philadelphia in-between speaking engagements, is a very good overview of Holt's work, and is particularly focused on homeschooling. John Holt interviewed by Teri Gross on Fresh Air, NPR, 1981<br />
Though homeschooling is discussed, the bulk of this talk show focuses on how schools can be changed and Holt's thoughts about that. John Holt interviewed on Boston radio, WBOS, about the "A Nation at Risk" report [1983]<br />
<br />
This is the raw interview tape that Holt owned, not the final broadcast version. Covers lots of political and educational reform ground about homeschooling, including Holt's thoughts about the influence of religious fundamentalists, are homeschoolers abandoning schools, unqualified parents teaching their own, and much more. John Holt interviewed by David Freudberg/Kindred Spirits Radio, April 11, 1985<br />
[via: http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2011/07/compilation-of-work-from-john-holt-one.html ]
johnholt  terigross  audio  1981  1983  1985  radio  education  unschooling  deschooling  schooling  learning  children  parenting  homeschool  publicschools  policy  politics  anationatrisk  rote  backtobasics  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
What does your school stand for? « Re-educate Seattle
"What does it stand for? What is its mission? What does it believe in? What outcomes does it consistently deliver? Is there a match between what the school offers & what kids & families want?…

Finally, it’s unlikely that a match exists between the school & families because the school has never really figured out what it’s trying to accomplish. Many families have reduced their hopes to merely surviving the ordeal w/ a minimum amount of pain.

One of the best things we can do to help transform our schools is figure out—specifically—what they’re trying to accomplish. & that doesn’t mean all schools should have the same mission. In fact, each school should have its own unique mission.

Once that’s established, schools can go about the business of connecting w/ families that are a good fit for their particular mission. Either that, or they can continue declaring “academic achievement for all” & stumbling on the never-ending “reform” treadmill."
education  values  mission  missionstatements  tcsnmy  clarity  purpose  outcomes  lcproject  teaching  learning  community  parents  students  stevemiranda  pscs  publicschools  2011  pugetsoundcommunityschool  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: The art of seeing (Part II) The Practice
"When I observe a school I start by watching how I, and how kids, approach it. I watch how the corridors operate, both when filled with movement and (if) when empty. Empty corridors during a school day speak loudly to me. So do classrooms with one kind of seating, one kind of lighting, or one "teaching wall." I watch the feet of kids in a class. I watch them fidget… [many more examples]…<br />
<br />
This multiply-focused kind of observation helps me to begin to deep map a school…<br />
<br />
the linearity and single-focus of traditional education has, perhaps, robbed you of, or severely limited, your human observation skills. Tens of thousands of hours of single subject lessons, of staring at teachers, of conference sessions divided into "tracks," have stunted the human abilities you had before you entered school. So, if you feel out of practice, here are a few ideas: Eavesdrop…Look for something you haven't looked for before in a place you've been a million times…Stare…Talk to strangers"
irasocol  noticing  observation  learning  schools  teaching  unschooling  deschooling  schooldesign  lcproject  tcsnmy  students  perspective  eavesdropping  staring  strangers  conversation  understanding  2011  howto  tutorials  adhdvision  adhdwalk  deepmapping  sensemaking  publicschools  sla  chrislehmann  pammoran  children  people  howwework  howwelearn  from delicious
june 2011 by robertogreco
Segregation Nation
"Omaha’s radical experiment in school integration could serve as a national model—though local resistance indicates it might be a tough sell."

"Omaha’s project is our country’s most radical experiment in socioeconomic integration. (Since a 2007 Supreme Court decision, Seattle v. the People United, limited race-based approaches to school integration, virtually all efforts have been based on income.) To be sure, as a model it is not without its problems: Bitter conflict plagued the process of creating the Learning Community, and it is also unclear how other cities might follow Omaha’s lead, since the city’s approach to school reform grew out of unusual local law. Still, because Omaha’s socioeconomic mix matches that of the country overall, because the area is small enough to make interdistrict transportation possible, and because of its sheer ambition, this Central Plains city is a perfect place to show the rest of the nation how school integration could work."
publicschools  schools  policy  integration  segregation  politics  education  omaha  nebraska  busing  choice  schooldistricts  poverty 
june 2011 by robertogreco
Bill Maher’s “Real Time” education debate failure - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post
"…a more important consideration of ranking and American exceptionalism may be the following data from David Morris about where the U.S. does rank No. 1:

• CEO pay compared to average worker pay.
• Income for top 0.1%
• Military spending
• Prisons per 100,000 population
• Murders per 100,000 population
• Health care costs as % of GDP
• Infant mortality per 1000 live births
• (As a reverse number one, meaning we are at the bottom) Social spending on families as % of GDP
• % children living in poverty, compared to like countries
• % experiencing homelessness from 1990-2006, compared to like countries

These are some of our exceptionalities because it is what we tolerate. To be blunt, we have corrosive and negative attitudes — as well as contradictory attitudes — about education because we do not want to face the fact of our country, the inequity and the real accountability that should be aimed at the top."
teaching  politics  policy  us  exceptionalism  2011  paulthomas  davidmorris  priorities  wealth  inequality  scapegoating  education  publicschools  poverty  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Hyperbole (and Progressive Bloggers) Fail Me: The End of Public Higher Education « zunguzungu
"I don’t expect Kevin Drum to have the answers, and we can debate what it will look like when this bubble finally bursts. Some people think it will be a good thing; I think it will be a clusterfuck for the middle and lower classes. But we all need to open our eyes to the fundamental transformation of American society that it represents. The generation before Drum’s made it possible to get an excellent education even if you couldn’t afford to pay the $9,000 that Stanford charged in 1981. Kevin Drum’s generation enjoyed the benefits of that system and then they dismantled it. My generation is muddling through by going deep into debt. The next generation will not."
education  berkeley  highereducation  elitism  money  debt  privatization  publicschools  publicuniversities  public  csu  uc  kevindrum  california  via:javierarbona  tuition  fees  higheredbubble  2011  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
The Outrage of the Week - Bridging Differences - Education Week
"agreement btwn Gates & Pearson Foundation[s] to write nation's curriculum. When did we vote to hand over American ed to them? Why would we outsource nation's curriculum to for-profit publishing & test-making corp based in London? Does Gates get to write national curriculum because he's richest man in US? We know his foundation is investing heavily in promoting Common Core standards…will [now] write K-12 curriculum that will promote online learning & video gaming…good for tech sector, but is it good for nation's schools?…Gates & Eli Broad Foundation[s], both…maintain pretense of being Democrats &/or liberals, have given millions to…Jeb Bush's foundation…promoting vouchers, charters, online learning, test-based accountability, & whole panoply of corporate reform strategies intended to weaken public ed & remove teachers' job protections…<br />
<br />
…scariest thought…Obama admin welcomes corporatization of public ed. Not only welcomes rise of ed entrepreneurialism, but encourages it."
education  reform  2011  pearson  gatesfoundation  billgates  jebbush  elibroad  broadfoundation  publicschools  publiceducation  barackobama  arneduncan  forprofit  technology  gamification  commoncore  nationalcurriculum  curriculum  accountability  onlinelearning  corporatization  corporations  corruption  policy  politics  testing  money  influence  dianeravitch  from delicious
may 2011 by robertogreco
Bill Williams' Blog: The Mailmen
"In the past few years I’ve seen the high end & low end of education in NYC. I’ve taught in private school…& public school…<br />
<br />
What the schools share in common is their steadfast adherence to the status quo. Kids at both schools are like the mail…already pre-sorted & classed…teacher’s job…is to ensure the mail gets to its proper destination. The First Class/Special Delivery to be sped to destinations in Cambridge, MA, New Haven, CT, or Palo Alto, CA. Kids from public school are bulk mail, delivered to every doorstep in their neighborhood…<br />
Great teaching gets done in places where people make or are given the room to be remarkable. Schools or classrooms that seek not to define who students are & what they should know, but ask who they can be and what they might create. A few teachers risk being poets who write beautiful letters. The rest, alas, keep heads safely attached and deliver the mail. Going home promptly at end of the school day to lock in a deep embrace w/ mediocrity."
teaching  education  statusquo  cv  organizations  bureaucracy  class  society  socialmobility  socialimmobility  nyc  billwilliams  self  self-awareness  privateschools  publicschools  tcsnmy  mediocrity  compliance  hierarchy  stoprockingtheboat  rockingtheboat  passivecompliance  passivity  success  cynicism  grades  grading  sorting  people  us  2011  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Enough Already - Practical Theory
"Pedro Noguera and Michelle Fine have an amazing piece in the Nation today about how teachers aren't the enemy. And in it, they argue that, yes, we need to reform many aspects of labor relations in education. I'll go one step further. We need to put the way we teach and learn on the table. But we're not going to get there this way. We aren't going to get there when those arguing for a market driven educational system in this country demonize those who are arguing for a public educational system as "anti-reform" or "anti-student."<br />
<br />
It is insulting. It is demeaning. And it is destructive.<br />
<br />
No one group - no one side - speaks for children.<br />
<br />
No one group - no one side - has it 100% right.<br />
<br />
So let's talk.<br />
<br />
But leave the overheated, insulting rhetoric that would demean the other side, rather than support your ideas, at home.<br />
<br />
Please.<br />
<br />
Enough already."
education  policy  schools  rhetoric  reform  children  chrislehmann  2011  unions  politics  pedronoguera  michellefine  davisguggenheim  michellerhee  chrischristie  change  teaching  learning  unschooling  deschooling  marketdrivenapproach  markets  charters  vouchers  us  publicschools  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Getting Serious About Reimagining Learning in the Digital Age | DMLcentral
"As things stand right now, unless participatory media takes a deliberate step into classrooms & into testing data, long-term sustainable funding & adoption seem unlikely."<br />
<br />
"As someone who regularly works with kids outside of schools in after-school & summer programs as well as spending the majority of my days waking up early & scrawling on a whiteboard, there is a significant mode of participation to which young people have become unnecessarily acculturated. With literally tens of thousands of hours spent being conditioned to facing forward & remaining in seats, we have created factory-minded young people who need to be gently provoked. This work takes time & trust; once those two things are present, a classroom of enthused minds is limited only by imagination.<br />
<br />
Years after its implementation, I still get messages from former students about how the seven weeks they spent learning through and playing the Black Cloud game made an impact on their day-to-day lives."
education  dml  digitalmedia  digital  media  internet  learning  change  unschooling  deschooling  tcsnmy  assessment  henryjenkins  anterogarcia  2011  schools  afterschoolprograms  participatory  participatoryculture  digitaldivide  participationgap  schooliness  industrialschooling  gamechanging  funding  k12  publicschools  quest2learn  cv  innovation  collaboration  socialemotionallearning  trust  engagement  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Education reform: Seeing like a superintendent | The Economist
"What goes on in a classroom is a social phenomenon that can't be effectively captured through standardised measurements. But they need a number. So they're creating standardised measurements to get one. But immediately, the application of the measurement and its incentives changes the way the phenomenon is organised. A complex, creative process is stripped down to a mechanical one designed to produce high test scores. The old-growth forest is replaced with rows of Norway spruce." Ms Goldstein writes: "In the social sciences, there is an oft-repeated aphorism called Campbell's Law, named after Donald Campbell, the psychologist who pioneered the study of human creativity: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." In short, incentives corrupt…"
education  reform  via:preoccupations  standardizedtesting  valueadded  teaching  tcsnmy  learning  2011  corruption  standardization  policy  politics  decisionmaking  government  us  publicschools  unschooling  deschooling  metrics  measurement  campbellslaw  quantitativetesting  improvement  finland  southkorea  korea  peerreview  masterteachers  planning  lessonplans  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
Declaration of Education | Write Your Declaration
"What is the Great American Teach-In?<br />
<br />
A day to remind ourselves and our students that citizenship means asking questions, finding answers and standing up for what you believe in... and that education must mean that too.<br />
Every classroom, every student, every school... draft a declaration of educational rights.<br />
When it comes to education, what are the truths you hold self evident? Let's make time to talk about these ideas within our learning communities.<br />
Then, let's document these truths, and continue the hard work of making a high quality public education accessible to all who want it."
education  students  rights  teachin  democracy  classideas  2011  citizenship  civics  questioning  learning  studentrights  community  publicschools  publiceducation  from delicious
april 2011 by robertogreco
YouTube - TEDxNYED - Gary Stager - 03/05/2011
garystager  2011  tedxnyed  education  learning  politics  policy  billgates  teaching  antibozos  publicschools  constructivism  michellerhee  joelklein  barackobama  michaelbloomberg  arneduncan  money  khanacademy  classsize  philanthropy  class  disparity  havesandhavenots  reform  standardizedtesting  curriculum  ranking  scoring  grading  testscores  meritpay  charters  vouchers  angelopetri  progressive  tcsnmy  dennislittky  seymourpapert  piaget  lcproject  unschooling  deschooling  collaboration  risktaking  projectbasedlearning  reading  openstudio  grades  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Randy Turner: The Failure of American Teachers
"And that brings me to the sole reason I have changed my mind about the competence of American public schoolteachers -- if we were doing our job, somewhere along the line we would have taught the politicians who are systematically destroying public education, the greatest of all American experiments, something about decency, respect, and developing the mortal fortitude to resist the siren song of the special interests who are well on their way to making the U. S. into a world of haves and have-nots, where public education will serve to provide low paid feeder stock for non-union companies and taxpayer-financed private schools will continue to cater to the elite, with the middle class existing only in history books.<br />
<br />
Public schoolteachers have failed miserably by producing the most incompetent, mean-spirited legislators in U.S. history."
politics  education  teachers  edreform  failureofteachers  teaching  schools  publicschools  democracy  learning  2011  policy  government  randyturner  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Unschool House Rock | bavatuesdays
"Unschooling for us need not be understood as some repudiation of the public trust, or public schools. Nor need it be understood in the stark, divisive terms of institutions need to be gutted, rather it is an attempt to create some critical distance from one institution in particular we both care deeply about: public education. Fact is, on a daily basis we depend upon all kinds of public institutions to carry out this process: the local libraries (which are amazing), the U of Mary Washington (for both flexibility & my paycheck), as well as innumerable people at innumerable institutions who share things w/ us all the time. For too long the annoying “but you’re at an institution” shot lodged at me & many others (w/ some justification) has failed to take into account just how vital many of these institutions are to the public trust & the future of our culture. I want to think this through, while at the same time moving away from empty rhetoric & stepping into the light of praxis."
deschooling  unschooling  networkedlearning  criticaleducation  via:steelemaley  jimgroom  cv  learning  parenting  publicschools  publicinstitutions  libraries  culture  values  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: Why is China the model rather than Finland?
"Finland, an egalitarian, democratic, & socialist nation can not be allowed to be model, in our leaders' eyes. That would suggest much about America is wrong in ways which would threaten everything from Bill Gates' fortune to place of privilege in future held by Obama's daughters.<br />
<br />
If Finland is allowed to be a model it might mean that the US would need to accept social mobility, & the children & grandchildren of NYTimes editorial & corporate employees would no longer be guaranteed admission to elite schools. If Finland is a model, there's a chance for all to succeed, which means that both the achievement gap & income gap might close.<br />
How much better for the ruling elite to celebrate hierarchical, brutally divided societies where "the little people" have no voice and no influence?<br />
So American "leaders" look to China now* as they did to Soviet Union in 1958 & Prussian Empire in 1858 because they want education to fail most children, because they want society to remain as it is."
edreform  policy  finland  china  1958  1858  2011  publicschools  socialism  egalitarianism  billgates  barackobama  arneduncan  education  politics  hierarchy  testing  standardizedtesting  standardization  society  capitalism  havesandhavenots  prussia  deschooling  unschooling  stasis  change  gamechanging  irasocol  money  class  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: The Big Lies (Part One)
"standardized testing measures compliance…<br />
<br />
In order to have a standardized test, you must have a single view of what something means…Not only that, you must have a single idea of what human development means at a fixed point.<br />
<br />
What standardized testing measures is how a student complies with a fictional human "average" built according to the expectations of a societal elite…<br />
<br />
This sounds nice, a single standard, that "high expectations for all" newspeak phrase. But what it means is that your children - not born rich to two parents with doctorates from Ivy League schools, raised with multigenerational support and in small-class-size private schools - will never be able to catch up or keep up. <br />
<br />
Measuring human growth & development is not like measuring the reproduction of a single prototype on an assembly line. It is a complex system of helping to figure out where a student is, and how to help them get where they are going."
innovation  assessment  competition  edreform  reform  education  policy  rttt  nclb  standardizedtesting  testing  standards  standardization  2011  publicschools  humandevelopment  irasocol  learning  measurement  compliance  unschooling  deschooling  schools  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
the Cucking Stool: Mitch or your lyin' eyes?
"The real issue for Berg, et. al. is the privatization and commercialization of public education and the destruction of teachers' unions. And for those ends, no amount of sophistry is too much."
education  schools  charters  publicschools  money  privatization  mitchberg  2011  policy  us  commercialization  unions  power  forprofit  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Diane Ravitch - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 03/03/11 - Video Clip | Comedy Central
"Diane Ravitch believes education reform should focus on getting children out of poverty, not finding the bad teachers."
education  politics  policy  dailyshow  rttt  nclb  jonstewart  dianeravitch  testing  standardizedtesting  arts  science  history  schools  publicschools  finland  privatization  2011  poverty  learning  accountability  interviews  parenting  segregation  racialisolation  vouchers  charters  teaching  blame  greed  compensation  benefits  reform  gatesfoundation  broadfoundation  healthcare  preschool  headstart  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
How Finland emerged from recession with the best education system in Europe - The Irish Times - Tue, Mar 01, 2011
"FOLLOWING THE break-up of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Finland experienced a severe recession, not dissimilar to current difficulties in Ireland.<br />
<br />
Unemployment climbed from 3 per cent to 18 per cent in two years. GDP dropped 13 per cent at the same time and Finnish public spending reached close to 70 per cent of the overall state budget.<br />
<br />
The Finnish Government of the day bravely decided that increased investment in education was the roadmap to recovery.<br />
<br />
Result? Finland emerged quickly from recession, built a highly-skilled workforce, and today boasts one of the finest education systems in the world.<br />
<br />
Interestingly, Finland has not employed any of the market-based educational reform ideas in the ways that they have been accepted within education policies of many other nations, United States and England among them.<br />
<br />
By contrast, a typical feature of teaching and learning in Finland is high confidence in teachers and principals as respected professionals…"
finland  recession  education  economics  poilicy  us  investment  history  learning  schools  publicschools  from delicious
march 2011 by robertogreco
Education Week: An Open Message to President Barack Obama
"in years of Cold War, public schools were blamed for contributing to alleged missile gap & prospect of losing space race. Federal initiatives resulted in curricular priorities…math & science, to be led by university scholar-specialists…students learned from these initiatives that they did not like math & science…university enrollments in those disciplines plummeted…Earlier, Harvard President James B. Conant had called for a moratorium on national testing…situation is far worse today…<br />
<br />
In mid-20th century, a committee of American Academy of Arts & Sciences pointed out…purely academic program advocated for high school by many university liberal arts professors…whole national life would be in danger of collapse. Unfortunately, we backed away from commitment to meaningful preparation of young people for life after HS.<br />
<br />
…your metrics…Race to the Top…relegating studies & activities that children love—civic education, arts, career education—to bottom rung of academic ladder."
education  rttt  barackobama  arneduncan  2011  learning  science  math  mathematics  schools  curriculum  arts  vocational  colleges  universities  collegeprep  history  coldwar  testing  standards  standardizedtesting  standardization  tcsnmy  meaning  publicschools  civiceducation  careers  danieltanner  jamesconant  johndewey  highereducation  children  politics  policy  inequality  engagement  teaching  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
Yong Zhao » “It makes no sense”: Puzzling over Obama’s State of the Union Speech
"Obama also said in his speech:<br />
<br />
"Remember-–for all the hits we’ve taken these last few years, for all the naysayers predicting our decline, America still has the largest, most prosperous economy in the world. No workers—no workers are more productive than ours. No country has more successful companies, or grants more patents to inventors & entrepreneurs. We’re the home to the world’s best colleges & universities, where more students come to study than any place on Earth."<br />
<br />
So who has made America “the largest, most prosperous economy in the world?” Who are these most productive workers? Where did the people who created the successful companies come from? & who are these inventors that received the most patents in the world?<br />
<br />
It has to be the same Americans who ranked bottom on the international tests… [STATS]…Apparently they have not driven the US into oblivion and ruined the country’s innovation record.
education  rttt  obama  2011  policy  schools  innovation  china  india  children  learning  creativity  economics  teaching  publicschools  yongzhao  us  science  stem  moreofthesame  moreisnotbetter  competition  competitiveness  curriculum  pisa  comparison  history  future  nclb  arneduncan  reform  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
Dissent Magazine - Winter 2011 Issue - Got Dough? How Billion...
"The cost of K–12 public schooling in the United States comes to well over $500 billion per year. So, how much influence could anyone in the private sector exert by controlling just a few billion dollars of that immense sum? Decisive influence, it turns out. A few billion dollars in private foundation money, strategically invested every year for a decade, has sufficed to define the national debate on education; sustain a crusade for a set of mostly ill-conceived reforms; and determine public policy at the local, state, and national levels. In the domain of venture philanthropy—where donors decide what social transformation they want to engineer and then design and fund projects to implement their vision—investing in education yields great bang for the buck."
education  reform  politics  schools  funding  money  corruption  influence  philanthropy  billgates  publicschools  from delicious
january 2011 by robertogreco
City As School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"City-As-School is a alternative NYC public high school built on the idea that all children learn differently, some learn by seeing, some by hearing, others by doing. The school's stated objective is to help strengthen, motivate & guide students through their high school experience.

While students have many opportunities for in-house classes, experiential learning is the foundation of CAS. Students are required to register for an internship each cycle; a cycle is half the time of a regular semester. Currently, CAS has over 500 open internship relationships.

Graduation from CAS is through a portfolio presentation before a panel of adult and peers.

Some of CAS students are eligible to take classes at local colleges tuition free."
education  schools  nyc  alternative  alternativeeducation  lcproject  internships  jean-michelbasquiat  basquiat  mosdef  adamhorovitz  learning  city-as-school  brooklyn  manhattan  ricksafran  fredkoury  publicschools  experiential  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
The truth about failure in US schools | Paul Thomas | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"Progress is impossible as long as debate about educational underachievement glosses over basic social facts like poverty"

"Throughout the world, the full picture of any nation's schools reflects the social realities of that country; when schools appear to be failures, the facts show that social failures (the conditions of children's lives outside of school) are driving the educational data. And we will certainly never address these social failures – and the truth about our schools – if political leaders and media voices refuse even to say the word 'poverty', while promoting simplistic manipulation of data."
assessment  failure  education  sociology  nclb  rttt  policy  us  poverty  society  schools  publicschools  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
Thanksgiving for Bankers and “Bad” Teachers « Fremont Watch
"Wow. Mission Accomplished by the neo-liberal privatizers and David Guggenheim. I am now sucking at the tit of government, as my brother put it. He’s not, I am. Because I am going to get a pension when I retire. He said we should all have 401 K’s. What happens to teachers who have been teaching for 30 years when the market goes bad? Nebraska found out and put all of their workers back into pensions. At least they are intellectually honest. My brother was lucky to be a winner in the economic collapse that decimated Main Street. I wonder if he was a loser in the scenario, like the poor Lehman brother workers that everyone gawked at as the walked out their workplace with cardboard boxes for the last time- if his point of view would be different, but somehow I doubt it."
banking  publiceducation  neoliberalism  waitingforsuperman  unions  pensions  government  misconceptions  education  policy  2010  us  publicschools  teaching  wealth  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
The Answer Sheet - What other countries are really doing in education
"To summarize:<br />
<br />
*More emphasis on the whole child, physical education, the arts, fostering talents and citizen skills.<br />
<br />
*Less emphasis on numeracy and literacy or testing<br />
<br />
*Greater respect for teachers, the profession and their role as partners in educational reform.<br />
<br />
I wonder if these people would be interested in putting together a manifesto?"
daltonmcguinty  canada  singapore  us  finland  education  policy  reform  2010  learning  schools  publicschools  numeracy  literacy  wholechild  tcsnmy  art  arts  creativity  teaching  respect  seanslade  international  comparison  timolankinen  from delicious
november 2010 by robertogreco
If money doesn’t matter… « School Finance 101
"A) Then why do private independent schools, like those attended by our President’s children (Sidwell Friends in DC), or by Davis Guggenheim’s children (?), spend so much more than nearby traditional public schools?"<br />
<br />
B) Then why do venture philanthropists continue to throw money at charter schools while throwing stones at traditional public schools?<br />
<br />
C) Then why do affluent – and/or low poverty – suburban school districts continue in many parts of the country to dramatically outspend their poorer urban neighbors?"
via:cervus  education  policy  funding  money  waitingforsuperman  schools  us  politics  independentschools  publicschools  charters  reform  2010  wealth  poverty  privilege  elite  elitism  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
San Francisco School of the Arts
"The Mission of the SFUSD School of the Arts is to provide a specialized high school program and learning environment which are conducive to creative and independent thinking and artistic and academic excellence for promising students of the arts."
sanfrancisco  bayarea  schools  arts  art  music  public  publicschools  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: Designed to Fail - Education in America: Part Two
"It was one thing for Henry Barnard to design an education system which would divide American children up in the most effective way for capitalist industrialism. It was one thing to import a system from authoritarian Prussia designed to foster compliant nationalism and train imperial soldiers [1]. But we would not be living with that system today if not for a system of religious and national mythology embracing that system and making it seem the inevitable result of a progressive, God-inspired nation."<br />
<br />
"The power of this civil religion is that, in education as in economics, it converts arguments for change from political disagreement into heresy."<br />
<br />
"for it is Cubberley's "victory" over Montessori and Dewey which permanized the system, which created the canonical text under which almost all of our school's operate."
irasocol  education  us  history  publicschools  schools  schooling  calvinism  ellwoodcubberley  harlondalton  johntaylorgatto  americanmyths  montessori  johndewey  danielboone  policy  classideas  deschooling  unschooling  religion  assimilation  meltingpot  michellerhee  henrybarnard  colonialism  lcproject  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
Rick Ayers: An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform
"Waiting for Superman is a slick marketing piece full of half-truths & distortions…suggests problems in education are fault of teachers & unions alone, & it asserts that the solution…is greater focus on top-down instruction driven by test scores…I'm not categorically opposed to charter schools; they can & often do allow a group of creative & innovative teachers, parents, & communities to build schools that work for their kids & are free of deadening bureaucracy of most districts…can be catalysts for even larger changes. But there are really 2 main opposing positions in "charter movement" -- not really a movement…but rather diverse range of different projects. On one side are those who hope to use charter option to operate effective small schools that are autonomous from districts. On other side are corporate powerhouses & ideological opponents of all things public who see this as a chance to break teacher's unions & to privatize education. Superman is a shill for the latter."
waitingforsuperman  charters  corporatism  testing  standardization  standardizedtesting  money  politics  pilcy  influence  privatization  rickayers  uniformity  specialinterests  documentary  2010  reform  education  publicschools  schools  funding  nclb  rttt  from delicious
september 2010 by robertogreco
The story of Sisyphus « Re-educate
Count on Steve Miranda to save me the trouble of responding to Tom Friedman's clueless column from the other day:

"And so another generation will replay the story of Sisyphus, pushing that boulder—with tenacity, seriousness, ferocity, and quiet heroism—up the hill, only to watch it roll back down again. There seems to be no sense here that the fundamental assumption driving the system—that teenagers should be coerced by punishments and rewards to learn skills and concepts that have no meaning to their lives—is flawed. Instead, Friedman implies, we need to just work harder!

I have no interest in playing the role of Sisyphus. I’m working to gather people who want to build something new and beautiful, and if you want to join us, there’s room for you. Our work is not about tenacity and ferocity, it’s about joy and community. And I’m telling you, it’s really fun."
thomasfriedman  education  pscs  tcsnmy  learning  schools  alternative  change  policy  publicschools  cv  whywedowhatwedo  community  lcproject  sisyphus  moreofthesame  waitingforsuperman  pugetsoundcommunityschool  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
The Big Lie (Thoughts on Why School Is Not Only About Workforce Development) - Practical Theory
"A public education that centers first around workforce development will put high premium on following directions & doing what you're told. A public education that centers first around citizenship development will still teach rules, but will teach students to question underlying ideas behind rules. Workforce development will reinforce hierarchies that we see in most corporate culture, while citizenship-focus will teach students that their voice matters, regardless of station…<br />
<br />
I want to be honest about why we teach what we teach. I'm tired of schools & politicians implicitly promising that result of successful schooling is high wages…<br />
<br />
Teaching kids that hard work in school will mean more money is shortcut & example of shoddy logic that doesn't ring true to many kids. Teaching kids that hard work in school will help them develop skills that will help them be a more fully realized citizen & person is a harder argument to make, but it stands a much better chance of being true."
chrislehmann  education  tcsnmy  civics  citizenship  economics  schools  schooling  lcproject  umairhaque  douglascoupland  josephstiglitz  pubiceducation  publicschools  citiznship  criticalthinking  whatmatters  toshare  topost  from delicious
august 2010 by robertogreco
Durty Handz « EdVox [via: http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2010/07/he-got-broad-prize-we-got-problem.html]
"To paraphrase Malcolm X: “If I’m following a general, and he’s leading me into a battle, and the enemy tends to give him rewards, or awards, I get suspicious of him. Especially if he gets a Broad award before the war is over.”"
nycs  publicschools  schools  education  policy  malcolmx  elibroad  money  politics  suspicion  michaelbloomberg  joelklein 
august 2010 by robertogreco
Project-based Learning at High Tech High | A 21st Century Education Film Series
"In this film, Larry Rosenstock, describes a vision for educaiton that blends the head, the heart, and the hands. High Tech High embraces learning that flows from personal interests, passion for discovery and a celebration of art, technology and craftsmanship."
education  learning  larryrosenstock  hightechhigh  projectbasedlearning  tcsnmy  toshare  topost  via:cervus  schooldesign  architecture  design  designthinking  designbasedlearning  classideas  presentationsoflearning  art  stem  respect  problemsolving  publicschools  us  charter  craft  make  making 
july 2010 by robertogreco
We must fire bad doctors
Four part piece on US education policy that starts with a sarcastic bit about firing bad doctors because of the obesity problem in the US.
via:cervus  schools  policy  education  us  medicine  healthcare  society  meritpay  unions  teaching  publicschools  statistics 
july 2010 by robertogreco
This Little Blog: A Place to Respond: Tom Vander Ark's List of Race to the Top Edu-Entrepreneurial Opportunities
"Tom Vander Ark was the first Executive Director for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is now partner in Vander Ark/Ratcliff, an eduction public affairs firm, and a partner in a private equity fund focused on "innovative" learning tools.
forprofit  tomvanderark  education  rttt  nclb  charters  investing  money  policy  schools  standards  standardization  publicschools  ripeforcorruption  privateequityfunds  socalledreform  reform  entrepreneurship 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: Would You Take Finland?
"RE: Evolution or Revolution [http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1247-Evolution-or-Revolution...-or-something-else.html], I think the question to ask is, "Would you take Finland's educational (and child welfare) system?" And if the answer is yes, then let's just do that. Finland's change from mediocrity to excellence was evolutionary. If you don't want that, the burden of proof is entirely on the side of doing something more difficult, untested and "revolutionary" than what Finland did."
education  policy  revolution  finland  schools  learning  social  childwelfare  tomhoffman  chrislehmann  us  publicschools 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Classroots.org - “What drives curriculum?”
"I’m not convinced we can’t get away w/ greater flexibility & student choice...There are compromises we can make in how we choose to use classtime: Google time. Negotiating state curriculum w/ students (you give me 3 standards, & we’ll get you a blog & trip/Skype call to aquarium for or action research). Subverting the state curriculum (A People’s Textbook of Algebra, anyone?). Ignoring the state curriculum (gulp).
curriculum  teaching  google20%  publicschools  vocation  standardizedtesting  standards  whatmatters  subversion  activism  policy 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: The Goal of a Charter School
"If the charter movement as a whole is going to change these aggregate stats, they're going to have to purge the schools that lack a singular focus on achievement as measured by test scores, graduation rates and other placement stats. In fact, I'm getting the feeling that process is already starting. Whether that reflects the spirit of community initiative and innovation that launched the charter idea is another question."
charters  sinister  tomhoffman  progressive  achievement  accountability  co-optingamovement  forprofits  education  publicschools  purpose  mission  missionstatements  history  localcontrol  community 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Why School? - Practical Theory
"One of my frustrations right now is what I feel is a thin and destructive dialogue about public education in our country. Much of the dialogue is from a deficit model -- "How do we fix broken schools?" -- without ever recognizing the incredible work that happens in schools all over the country every day. Worse, the "fix" that is being advocated is often more reductive than what we currently offer - a focus on tested subjects, a focus on "work-ready" skills that ignores the civic needs of a nation. We look to the edu-capitalists to solve our problem at a time when, dare we suggest, the morality of the market should not be the model for school."
chrislehmann  education  mikerose  whyschool  books  policy  toread  markets  civics  tcsnmy  publicschools  debate  2010  morality  deficitmodel 
july 2010 by robertogreco
confessions of a Christian homeschooler | Culture | The American Scene
"As I say, we all know the stereotype of the Christian homeschooling parent, and of course stereotypes arise for a reason; but I wonder how many people there are out there like us, people who got into homeschooling through unexpected contingency, not because they have some kind of principled objection to secularists corrupting their children. Maybe there are more such people than we suspect." [An intesting comment thread follows.]
homeschool  alanjacobs  education  learning  schools  children  parenting  unschooling  glvo  relgion  publicschools 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: Tobin Tax!
"If education was partially funded by a tax on financial transactions, a Tobin Tax, as Robert Reich proposes below, the net effect of today's market hiccup would be... more money for schools!
robertreich  tomhoffman  tobintax  schools  funding  publicschools  education  policy  taxes  finance  transactions  money  wallstreet  economics  humancapital 
may 2010 by robertogreco
The Pendulum or the Butterfly? » Edurati Review
"We will loft education anew when we generate an ever-increasing ratio of educators who believe in a mission to create spaces of inspiration for learners and learning. It will take more than 1 or 10 percent of us speaking the poetic and political voices of passion, joy, and drive to create those spaces in which young people and educators can thrive in these contemporary days. Our vision must become a vision of lift, influence, and power that creates a front channel for our voices, shifting us out of the backchannel. We need our best educational technologists, our courageous leaders, our creative geniuses to create the front channel we must become. It’s our job, and our time, to increase the inspiration ratio in every community in this nation." [via: http://speedchange.blogspot.com/2010/04/easter-monday-proclamation-of.html]
pammoran  education  reform  policy  2010  schools  publicschools  learning  lcproject  change  politics  us  priorities 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Deborah Meier's Blog on Education: Small Schools and Choice Revisited
"We have installed new bureaucracies...recreated too many chain store schools. Decisions were made further & further from school folks...charter schools themselves also grew larger to accommodate efficiency. In several cities mayors decided to use them to unload their own “accountability” for public education & replace it with privately managed corporations. Maybe deliberately, maybe not. I’m hoping for the latter, & that they too will take a careful look at what they have created before we cross the line of—well I was going to say “no-return”, but actually history doesn’t end & if democracy remains a good idea, we will grow truly public schools again. & again.
deborahmeier  policy  publicschools  schools  education  us  charters 
march 2010 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: The Parent Trap
"parental choice often works against child best interests. Parents pick schools based on status, on homogeneity, on sports, on reputation. The quite broken school systems of Northern Ireland are the result of "parental choice,"...
education  irasocol  policy  choice  schoolchoice  publicschools  northernireland  parenting  segregation  selfishness  studentdirected  student-centered  student-led  tcsnmy  learning  schooling  schools  society 
march 2010 by robertogreco
What is the agenda? - Practical Theory
"I think the Race to the Top push to expand charter law is only a first step. I think we're going to see a federal push for vouchers before the end of the Obama administration. ...
chrislehmann  publicschools  us  polic  barackobama  vouchers  money  policy  politics  arneduncan 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: Multiple Measures of the Same Data
"I still have trouble believing that I live in a world where decisions to close schools would be made without even bothering to move your finger over one more column on the NECAP report to look at the writing scores. Hey! You already paid for them! They're right there. See?
data  rhodeisland  schools  policy  education  testing  tomhoffman  publicschools  nclb  standardizedtesting  tunnelvision 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Waiting for Superman | TakePart Social Action Network
"Waiting for Superman examines the crisis of public education in the United States through multiple interlocking stories—from a handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the balance, to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting solutions within a dysfunctional system. The Social Action campaign for Waiting for Superman will work with advocacy organizations, foundations and policy-leaders to offer initiatives for people to explore and be a part of long-term strategies that offer systemic changes. It will also engage audiences in immediate, tangible actions to help students in under-performing schools achieve better educational outcomes."
education  film  documentary  politics  us  learning  schools  publicschools 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Why Business Leaders Should Not Be in the Driver's Seat - Bridging Differences - Education Week
"Living as we do in an age when test scores are so easily manipulated & so often fraudulent, we should proceed with caution before using them to determine the fate of students, teachers, principals, & schools. I give Mssrs. Ford, Gerstner, & Broad the benefit of the doubt: They think that school data are as meaningful as a profit-&-loss statement or a price-to-earnings ratio. Presumably, they don't realize that what is measured and can be measured may not be the most important things that happen in schools. Where I do not give them the benefit of the doubt is that they assume that the Race to the Top is "enforcing academic standards." That is simply not true. In fact, it is sad or laughable, I am not sure which. The main themes of RTTT are privatization via charters & evaluation via phony test scores. How this translates into "rigorous standards" defies my understanding. Nor do I admire their belief that schools will get dramatically better if they compete, just like businesses do..."
education  business  policy  assessment  politics  rttt  standardizedtesting  testing  data  reform  barackobama  elibroad  schools  publicschools  dianeravitch 
january 2010 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: Crossing America: An Education
"Educational "reformers" and administrators rarely consider environment as a prime issue in learning, consigning the idea to "primitive thought," "pre-rational thought," and "pre-scientific thought." After all, Mike Bloomberg and Michelle Rhee will tell you, there's only one right way to add 2+2 or spell "tomorrow."
policy  standardization  nature  nuture  environment  geography  schools  onesizefitsall  schooling  unschooling  deschooling  learning  tcsnmy  independentschools  publicschools  education  us  irasocol 
december 2009 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: The Carnegie Unit
"Carnegie Units are a bad idea in practice, but they are not the real problem. Our problem is our lack of imagination - and our unwillingness to take real risks in changing a broken system.
education  history  carnegieunits  standardization  nclb  barackobama  georgewbush  standardizedtesting  policy  politics  thomasjefferson  publicschools  irasocol 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Education Notes Online: PEP Boys (and Girls) December Meeting: Cracks Show in the Bloomberg/Klein Monolith
"One interesting thing was the number of young teachers, some from TFA and the TF programs who stood up for their schools. It wasn't just the older teachers who are outraged. These are the very people the ed deformers were counting on to be their shock troops. I was with some of the reporters on the way home and we ran into one of the teachers, a 3rd year TFA who remained after her commitment to stay at her school. Her school in the first year also closed. She said she wanted to stay in the NYC system and now that is doubtful. BloomKlein first went after the older teachers and now are eating their own young." [via: http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2009/12/interesting-also-inevitable.html]
education  reform  publicschools  2009  tfa  policy  politics  schools 
december 2009 by robertogreco
December 18, 2009 – We Are The People We've Been Waiting For | The 3rd Teacher
"Edge is an independent education foundation, based in the UK, which is dedicated to raising the stature of practical and vocational learning to match the emphasis currently placed on traditional academic training. Edge recently produced a documentary titled ‘We Are The People We’ve Been Waiting For.’ The film explores the role of education in equipping our children with the tools they need to face the challenges of our rapidly changing world. The Third Teacher contributor, Ken Robinson, is featured in the film. Here is a short yet powerful trailer:" [more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRi8_fXz1D8 AND http://www.wearethepeoplemovie.com/ AND http://www.youtube.com/user/WeAreThePeopleMovie ]
education  kenrobinson  thirdteacher  documentary  traditional  academics  vocational  learning  schools  schooling  diversity  film  lcproject  adaptability  change  reform  society  publicschools  industrial  gamechanging  onesizefitsall  tcsnmy  unschooling  deschooling  reggioemilia 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: A Good Enough Schematic of US School Reform
"This is pretty much the universe as I see it. The upper left needs a better name or representative organization. I considered "no excuses" but I don't think that's quite it.
charts  spectrum  schools  reform  progressive  tradition  tomhoffman  commerce  culture  democracy  standards  policy  publicschools  21stcenturyskills  ces  coreknowledge 
december 2009 by robertogreco
The Educated Reporter: Which part of “PUBLIC schools” don’t you understand?
"The “same page” climate means that only the crankiest, most out-there gadflies have the guts to question or criticize, which is not as productive as an honest dialogue among everyone."
policy  change  innovation  publicschools  barackobama  cv  criticism  conformity  conformism 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Gary Stager: First We Kill the Teacher Unions! [via: http://practicaltheory.org/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1229-Gary-Stager-First-We-Kill-the-Teachers-Unions.html]
"Blaming educational problems on teacher unions is even more absurd when you consider that states like Texas have no teacher unions. Is Texas immune from student achievement challenges? Hardly. The larger question is a matter of leadership & employee relations. How does reducing teacher creativity, independence & responsibility for decision-making help instill those qualities in the children they teach? How does alienating teachers, placing them in rubber rooms or attacking their motives make them a partner in school reform? How does insulting your base & violating a fundamental American liberty create a wise & more just society? Do you want your children taught by defensive or depressed teachers who feel assaulted by the community they serve? How does that state of affairs contribute to educational excellence? If the educational neocons succeed & break the backs of teacher unions, what do they think would happen?"
education  teaching  policy  politics  2008  unions  garystager  reform  schools  publicschools 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Which School is Better? Traditional or Progressive « Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice
"Why is it so hard to get past the idea that there is only one kind of “good” school? The deeply buried but persistent impulse in the United States to create a “one best system” has kept progressives and traditionalists contesting which innovations are best for children, while ignoring that there are more ways than one to get “goodness” in schools.
us  schools  education  publicschools  policy  progressive  traditional  learning  dichotomy  larrycuban  wisdom  tcsnmy  history  democracy  plurality  goodschools 
november 2009 by robertogreco
Bridging Differences: What Does the Best and Wisest Parent Want? [via: http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2009/10/i-like-being-on-same-side-of-argument.html]
"We both recall that John Dewey wrote that what the best and wisest parent wants for his own child is what the community should want for all its children. That's a good starting point. What does the best and wisest parent want for his or her own child? Certainly, that parent would want a school with small classes, which guarantees that her child would get personal attention. Class size is a pretty good indicator of what most people mean by quality. If you visit the most elite private schools, you can bet that they don't have 32 students in a class. On the Web sites of such schools, one learns that classes are typically 12 to 15 students to a teacher. Such luxury is unheard of in most public schools, with the possible exception of schools in tony suburbs. Many of those who pronounce that class size doesn't matter send their own children to schools with small classes."
dianeravitch  johndewey  education  privateschools  tcsnmy  classsize  teaching  learning  parenting  arts  policy  privatization  vouchers  money  barackobama  schools  publicschools  society  disparity  community 
october 2009 by robertogreco
National Journal Online -- Education Experts -- Should Private Money Fund Public Schools? [via: http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2009/10/i-like-being-on-same-side-of-argument.html]
Diane Ratvich: "I would like to see public education improve, and I would like to see Catholic and other religious schools survive. So I have a simple principle to propose: Public money for public schools, private money for private schools. That way, entrepreneurs would stop picking the public's pocket for their enrichment, and philanthropists would be encouraged to support effective and worthy religious schools, especially those (like Catholic schools) that have helped poor and working-class families and children. The survival of inner-city Catholic education now hangs in the balance, and only private money can save it. And should."
education  schools  funding  private  privateschools  catholicschools  policy  publicschools  us  philanthropy  money  vouchers  dianeravitch 
october 2009 by robertogreco
…My heart’s in Accra » Steve Barr: Outlaw private school!
"fastest way to change education in the US? We could make private schools illegal. (He’s joking. Sort of.) “What would happen if Bill Gates had to send his kids to public school? He’d go to McKinsey & demand that they turn this stuff around!” Barr visited big public schools in LA & observed that they looked like prisons...“You’d never send your kid to a school with 1000+ kids if you were paying $25K – they’d fall through cracks.” You’d have high expectations for every kid & bring kids up to speed so they could learn together & so every kid would be focused on college prep. You’d call the school if they didn’t assign your kids homework & they’d answer phone. & you’d participate in school’s culture – bake sales & teacher conferences...“You’d never spend 25K if half the money didn’t go to the classroom but to another building where folks walk around in suits.” 60% of employees in LA educational system aren’t teachers...building the best bureacracy that money can buy."
education  schools  privateschools  publicschools  policy  change  charters  greendot  stevebarr  reform  politics  california  us 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Core Standards - Sound Bites and Standardization - Practical Theory
"There are plenty of reasons to question this movement, but here's the scariest part for me. This Core Standards movement should scare everyone who believes that meaning and learning is still most powerfully made in the spaces that students and teachers share. More than teachers, students, state administrators, the group that stands most to gain from national standards and a national test is the education-industrial complex. ... It has the risk of the ultimate deprofessionalization of teachers and depersonalization of education.
corestandards  chrislehmann  education  policy  money  politics  teaching  learning  schools  publicschools  us 
october 2009 by robertogreco
The Other Thirteen - Practical Theory
"How different would current ed conversation be if KIPP folks said, "Yes...in some of our schools, 25-40% of families choose to leave, but KIPP isn't for everyone & for students who stay, we do right by them?"...admitted it would be much harder to have success if they didn't have traditional schools to send kids back to when it didn't work out?...didn't have all the answers...do amazing things for many students, but haven't figured out how to get to significant % of population? Why isn't that the dialogue? Because it's not as easy to raise millions of $ on "We're figuring it out too?"...why are Jay Matthews, NYTimes...& so many others so willing to promote a myth?...it's easier...if we could only believe that we could solve all problems of educating students in poverty with charismatic school leaders & hard working teachers...all kids who don't get education they need are simply being underserved by lazy teachers...would absolve our society for not being more just, equitable, fair."
education  kipp  policy  inequity  justice  society  learning  schools  reform  politics  jaymatthews  chrislehmann  publicschools  us 
october 2009 by robertogreco
Waldorf-Inspired Public Schools Are on the Rise | Edutopia
"The John Morse Waldorf Methods School, in Sacramento, California, provides a different vision of education, complete with art, music, and movement."
education  curriculum  publicschools  edutopia  waldorf  trends  schools 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Rethink learning. Now. « - Blogs from CNN.com
"As everyone knows, learning involves more than basic skills and regurgitating information. It requires higher-order skills and the capacity to digest, make sense of, and apply what we've been taught. Why, then, are we allowing well-intentioned policymakers to unintentionally discourage schools from doing those essential things? Why are we judging whether schools are successes or failures based solely on these insufficient numbers? And why are we tolerating a national culture of testing, when we all know from personal experience that what we need is a national culture of learning?" via: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=50041
education  learning  policy  reform  us  publicschools  government 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Education in Singapore and Finland: a comparison Part 1 ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
"This chart speaks volumes. It compares education in Singapore and Finland. Note the one area where they are the same. Yup: equal opportunities and free or heavily subsidized."
finland  singapore  education  schools  policy  publicschools  learning  government  curriculum  comparison 
september 2009 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: It's That Bad
"That's where we're headed. If you've got a family & mortgage, you don't have luxury of indulging your desire to help bring up a low-performing school. If it is closed or re-organized, which is likely, you could be completely screwed. You could lose your health insurance & your pension. At best your life & career will be turned upside down, and you're likely looking at a repeating cycle, since none of these measures show consistent results anyhow. On the other hand, if you can wedge your way into a high-performing school, in the city or more likely the 'burbs, you're fine. That's the new system."
policy  education  teaching  careers  money  salaries  benefits  healthcare  poverty  us  publicschools  performance  disincentives  tomhoffman 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Presentation to the FCC National Broadband Planning Workshop - Practical Theory
"I think the scariest thing about today is -- as I listened to the speakers -- there is a growing movement in America to give up on schools. If we as educators want to be a part of the coming conversation about what learning looks like, we must offer a compelling vision of what schools can be. We must be willing to examine our own practice and be willing to change. And we must engage parents and students in the conversation, because if we don't, the "education economy" will end up recreating schools in a way that, in my opinion, will leave us good at training, but poor at learning. Jim Shelton said in his remarks today, "There are businesses that want this market, so they will create opportunities for kids." That's not the vision of education I have for my children, and it's not the vision of education I have for the students in my charge."
chrislehmann  policy  politics  money  economics  schools  publicschools  privatization  change  reform  technology  learning  education  administration  leadership  pedagogy  teaching  21stcentury  edtech  web2.0  innovation 
august 2009 by robertogreco
« earlier      

related tags

21stcentury ⊕  21stcenturyskills ⊕  academics ⊕  accountability ⊕  achievement ⊕  achievementgap ⊕  activism ⊕  adamhorovitz ⊕  adaptability ⊕  adhdvision ⊕  adhdwalk ⊕  administration ⊕  adventure ⊕  afterschoolprograms ⊕  alanjacobs ⊕  alankay ⊕  albanyfreeschool ⊕  alternative ⊕  alternativeeducation ⊕  americanmyths ⊕  anationatrisk ⊕  angelopetri ⊕  anterogarcia ⊕  anti-intellectualism ⊕  antibozos ⊕  architecture ⊕  arneduncan ⊕  arnoldschwarzenegger ⊕  art ⊕  arts ⊕  assessment ⊕  assimilation ⊕  astrataylor ⊕  audio ⊕  backtobasics ⊕  banking ⊕  barackobama ⊕  basquiat ⊕  bayarea ⊕  benefits ⊕  benniningtoncollege ⊕  berkeley ⊕  billgates ⊕  billwilliams ⊕  blame ⊕  blockschedules ⊕  bluecollar ⊕  books ⊕  broadfoundation ⊕  brooklyn ⊕  brownvsboardofeducation ⊕  budget ⊕  bureaucracy ⊕  burnout ⊕  business ⊕  busing ⊕  calendar ⊕  california ⊕  calvinism ⊕  campbellslaw ⊕  canada ⊕  capitalism ⊕  careers ⊕  carnegieunits ⊕  catholicschools ⊕  ces ⊕  change ⊕  charter ⊕  charters ⊕  charts ⊕  children ⊕  childwelfare ⊕  chilren ⊕  china ⊕  choice ⊕  chrischristie ⊕  chrislehmann ⊕  citizenship ⊕  citiznship ⊕  city-as-school ⊕  civiceducation ⊕  civics ⊕  clarity ⊕  class ⊕  classideas ⊕  classsize ⊕  co-optingamovement ⊕  coldwar ⊕  collaboration ⊕  collegeprep ⊕  colleges ⊕  colonialism ⊕  commerce ⊕  commercialization ⊕  commoncore ⊕  community ⊕  comparison ⊕  compensation ⊕  competition ⊕  competitiveness ⊕  compliance ⊕  conceptual ⊕  conformism ⊕  conformity ⊕  conjecture ⊕  constructivism ⊕  control ⊕  conversation ⊕  cooperation ⊕  coreknowledge ⊕  corestandards ⊕  corporations ⊕  corporatism ⊕  corporatization ⊕  correlation ⊕  corruption ⊕  courts ⊕  craft ⊕  creativity ⊕  crisis ⊕  criticaleducation ⊕  criticalthinking ⊕  criticism ⊕  crossdisciplinary ⊕  csu ⊕  culture ⊕  curriculum ⊕  cv ⊕  cynicism ⊕  dailyshow ⊕  daltonmcguinty ⊕  danagoldstein ⊕  dandiego ⊕  danielboone ⊕  danieltanner ⊕  data ⊕  davidmorris ⊕  davisguggenheim ⊕  dc ⊕  debate ⊕  deborahmeier ⊕  debt ⊕  decisionmaking ⊕  deepmapping ⊕  deficitmodel ⊕  democracy ⊕  demographics ⊕  dennislittky ⊕  deschooling ⊕  desegregation ⊕  design ⊕  designbasedlearning ⊕  designthinking ⊕  dianeravitch ⊕  dichotomy ⊕  digital ⊕  digitaldivide ⊕  digitalmedia ⊕  disincentives ⊕  disparity ⊕  diversity ⊕  dml ⊕  documentary ⊕  douglascoupland ⊕  dougnoon ⊕  eavesdropping ⊕  economics ⊕  edreform ⊕  edtech ⊕  education ⊕  edutopia ⊕  egalitarianism ⊕  elibroad ⊕  elite ⊕  elitism ⊕  ellwoodcubberley ⊕  engagement ⊕  entrepreneurship ⊕  environment ⊕  evaluation ⊕  exceptionalism ⊕  experiential ⊕  factoryschools ⊕  failure ⊕  failureofteachers ⊕  fees ⊕  film ⊕  finance ⊕  finland ⊕  foreign-born ⊕  forprofit ⊕  forprofits ⊕  frankmccourt ⊕  fredkoury ⊕  fredwilson ⊕  freedom ⊕  freemarkets ⊕  funding ⊕  future ⊕  gamechanging ⊕  gamification ⊕  garystager ⊕  gatesfoundation ⊕  geography ⊕  georgewbush ⊕  gifted ⊕  glvo ⊕  gm ⊕  goodschools ⊕  google20% ⊕  government ⊕  grades ⊕  grading ⊕  greed ⊕  greendot ⊕  hackingeducation ⊕  happiness ⊕  harlondalton ⊕  havesandhavenots ⊕  headstart ⊕  healthcare ⊕  henrybarnard ⊕  henryjenkins ⊕  hierarchy ⊕  higheredbubble ⊕  highereducation ⊕  higherorderskills ⊕  hightechhigh ⊕  history ⊕  homeschool ⊕  homework ⊕  howto ⊕  howwelearn ⊕  howwework ⊕  humancapital ⊕  humandevelopment ⊕  ideology ⊕  immigrants ⊕  improvement ⊕  incentives ⊕  income ⊕  independentschools ⊕  india ⊕  industrial ⊕  industrialschooling ⊕  industry ⊕  inequality ⊕  inequity ⊕  influence ⊕  informallearning ⊕  innovation ⊕  instruction ⊕  integration ⊕  integrative ⊕  intellectualism ⊕  interdisciplinary ⊕  interestdriven ⊕  international ⊕  internet ⊕  internships ⊕  interviews ⊕  investing ⊕  investment ⊕  irasocol ⊕  jamesconant ⊕  jaymatthews ⊕  jean-michelbasquiat ⊕  jebbush ⊕  jimgroom ⊕  jimhightower ⊕  joelklein ⊕  johndewey ⊕  johnholt ⊕  johntaylorgatto ⊕  jonstewart ⊕  josephstiglitz ⊕  justice ⊕  k12 ⊕  kenrobinson ⊕  kevindrum ⊕  khanacademy ⊕  kipp ⊕  korea ⊕  larrycuban ⊕  larryrosenstock ⊕  larrysummers ⊕  lcproject ⊕  leadership ⊕  learning ⊕  lessonplans ⊕  liberals ⊕  libraries ⊕  lies ⊕  lindadarling-hammond ⊕  literacy ⊕  local ⊕  localcontrol ⊕  make ⊕  making ⊕  malcolmx ⊕  management ⊕  manhattan ⊕  manual ⊕  marketdrivenapproach ⊕  markets ⊕  masterteachers ⊕  math ⊕  mathematics ⊕  meaning ⊕  measurement ⊕  media ⊕  medicine ⊕  mediocrity ⊕  meltingpot ⊕  mentoring ⊕  mentors ⊕  meritocracy ⊕  meritpay ⊕  metafilter ⊕  metrics ⊕  michaelbloomberg ⊕  michellefine ⊕  michellerhee ⊕  mikepetrilli ⊕  mikerose ⊕  misconceptions ⊕  mission ⊕  missionstatements ⊕  mitchberg ⊕  money ⊕  montessori ⊕  morality ⊕  moreisnotbetter ⊕  moreofthesame ⊕  mosdef ⊕  motivation ⊕  motives ⊕  music ⊕  nationalcurriculum ⊕  nationalstandards ⊕  nature ⊕  nclb ⊕  nebraska ⊕  neoliberalism ⊕  networkedlearning ⊕  northernireland ⊕  noticing ⊕  numeracy ⊕  nuture ⊕  nyc ⊕  nycs ⊕  obama ⊕  observation ⊕  olpc ⊕  omaha ⊕  onesizefitsall ⊕  onlinelearning ⊕  openstudio ⊕  organizations ⊕  outcomes ⊕  pammoran ⊕  parenting ⊕  parents ⊕  participationgap ⊕  participatory ⊕  participatoryculture ⊕  pasadena ⊕  passivecompliance ⊕  passivity ⊕  paulthomas ⊕  pearson ⊕  pedagogy ⊕  pedronoguera ⊕  peerreview ⊕  pensions ⊕  people ⊕  performance ⊕  personallearning ⊕  perspective ⊕  philanthropy ⊕  piaget ⊕  pilcy ⊕  pisa ⊕  planning ⊕  plurality ⊕  poilicy ⊕  polic ⊕  policy ⊕  politics ⊕  poverty ⊕  power ⊕  preschool ⊕  presentationsoflearning ⊕  priorities ⊕  private ⊕  privateequityfunds ⊕  privateschools ⊕  privatization ⊕  privilege ⊕  problemsolving ⊕  professionaldevelopment ⊕  professionalism ⊕  profit ⊕  progress ⊕  progressive ⊕  projectbasedlearning ⊕  protest ⊕  prussia ⊕  pscs ⊕  pubiceducation ⊕  public ⊕  publiceducation ⊕  publicinstitutions ⊕  publicschools ⊖  publicuniversities ⊕  pugetsoundcommunityschool ⊕  purpose ⊕  quantitativetesting ⊕  quest2learn ⊕  questioning ⊕  race ⊕  racialisolation ⊕  radio ⊕  randyturner ⊕  ranking ⊕  reading ⊕  recession ⊕  reflection ⊕  reform ⊕  reggioemilia ⊕  reinvention ⊕  relgion ⊕  religion ⊕  research ⊕  respect ⊕  revolution ⊕  rhetoric ⊕  rhodeisland ⊕  rickayers ⊕  ricksafran ⊕  rights ⊕  rightwing ⊕  ripeforcorruption ⊕  risktaking ⊕  robertfkennedy ⊕  robertreich ⊕  rockingtheboat ⊕  rote ⊕  rotelearning ⊕  rttt ⊕  salaries ⊕  sanfrancisco ⊕  scapegoating ⊕  schedules ⊕  scheduling ⊕  schoolchoice ⊕  schoolday ⊕  schooldesign ⊕  schooldistricts ⊕  schooliness ⊕  schooling ⊕  schools ⊕  schoolyear ⊕  science ⊕  scoring ⊕  sdusd ⊕  seanslade ⊕  segregation ⊕  self ⊕  self-awareness ⊕  selfishness ⊕  sensemaking ⊕  servicelearning ⊕  sethgodin ⊕  seymourpapert ⊕  singapore ⊕  sinister ⊕  sisyphus ⊕  sla ⊕  socalledreform ⊕  social ⊕  socialemotionallearning ⊕  socialimmobility ⊕  socialism ⊕  socialmobility ⊕  society ⊕  sociology ⊕  sorting ⊕  sosmarch ⊕  southkorea ⊕  specialinterests ⊕  spectrum ⊕  standardization ⊕  standardizedtesting ⊕  standards ⊕  staring ⊕  stasis ⊕  statistics ⊕  statusquo ⊕  stem ⊕  stevebarr ⊕  stevemiranda ⊕  stoprockingtheboat ⊕  strangers ⊕  stress ⊕  student-centered ⊕  student-led ⊕  studentdirected ⊕  studentrights ⊕  students ⊕  subversion ⊕  success ⊕  support ⊕  suspicion ⊕  taxes ⊕  tcsnmy ⊕  teachers ⊕  teachin ⊕  teaching ⊕  technicalschools ⊕  technology ⊕  tedxnyed ⊕  teens ⊕  tenure ⊕  terigross ⊕  testing ⊕  testscores ⊕  textbooks ⊕  tfa ⊕  thirdteacher ⊕  thomasfriedman ⊕  thomasjefferson ⊕  time ⊕  timolankinen ⊕  tinkering ⊕  tobintax ⊕  tomhoffman ⊕  tomvanderark ⊕  topost ⊕  toread ⊕  toshare ⊕  tradition ⊕  traditional ⊕  training ⊕  transactions ⊕  trends ⊕  trust ⊕  tuition ⊕  tunnelvision ⊕  tutorials ⊕  uc ⊕  umairhaque ⊕  understanding ⊕  uniformity ⊕  unions ⊕  universities ⊕  unschooling ⊕  us ⊕  valueadded ⊕  values ⊕  via:cervus ⊕  via:javierarbona ⊕  via:noon ⊕  via:preoccupations ⊕  via:steelemaley ⊕  via:tom.hoffman ⊕  vocation ⊕  vocational ⊕  vouchers ⊕  waitingforsuperman ⊕  waldorf ⊕  wallstreet ⊕  washingtondc ⊕  wealth ⊕  web2.0 ⊕  well-being ⊕  whatmatters ⊕  whitecollar ⊕  whiteflight ⊕  wholechild ⊕  whyschool ⊕  whywedowhatwedo ⊕  wisdom ⊕  work ⊕  yearlongschool ⊕  yearround ⊕  yongzhao ⊕ 

Copy this bookmark:



description:


tags: