I am not sure where the future lies with online education, but it is clear that face-to-face instruction is going to continue to be supplemented and in some cases supplanted by online instruction.
Here is a 10 minue video clip that discusses some of these options that students have today. It should be a wake up [...]
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The future of online/internet based education?
February 9th, 2010 1 Comment
Tags: online learning
Digital Divide: Not just a generational issue
December 7th, 2009 No Comments
The Washington Post put up this article pointing out that the digital divide is not just a generational divide, it can also be a poverty divide.
As more and more schools use technology and ask students to do their assignments using internet resources, the Post points out that not every student is able to participate depending on [...]
Tags: digital divide
Invitational Education
November 3rd, 2009 3 Comments
In Dr. Duncan’s comments about Culture vs Climate (found right here) she references an observation from a student in class that revealed the non-inviting environment of the school. It was a real turn off for the parents.
Did you know there is an entire organization devoted to Invitational Education? I read the book with the same name [...]
The Singing Teacher
September 2nd, 2009 No Comments
Teacher Hero story submitted by Wendy Young
I was fresh out of graduate school and landed a position as a school counselor/social worker for an alternative education program in Holt, Michigan. Susie Gallagher was one of the teachers.
Her love and kindness for her students knew no bounds. More than anything, she believed in her students…each and [...]
Asia Rising - U.S. Decline…Really?
August 17th, 2009 No Comments
Over the decades, U.S. education reform efforts have largely been driven by U.S. paranoia over losing world economic dominance.
Remember Sputnik? When Americans thought Russia was going to beat them to the moon it drove NASA to the moon and it brought with it an emphasis on Math and Science.
Then it was Japan that was the [...]
Tags: Asia · economic policy · eduational policy · education reform · India · stadrdized testing
Another teacher leaves the profession early…
August 10th, 2009 4 Comments
The Washington Post recently ran this op-ed piece about another young teacher leaving the profession.
This story is way to common. However, it seems to fit in with our recent discussions about teacher education programs in some ways. Are we really preparing educators for what awaits them? Excerpt follows….
The teaching itself was exhilarating but disheartening. There [...]
Tags: administration · education as a career · education preparation · new teachers · school administration · teacher colleges
NCLB opinions
June 9th, 2009 No Comments
Some of you folks may remember the late, great Lowell Rose. Lowell was at Indiana University for years and helped with the Gallup Polls on education and Phi Delta Kappan. He was well respected around the country and a very ardent supporter of public education.
Here is a great op ed piece criticizing NCLB in the [...]
Tags: Indianapolis star · Lowell Rose · NCLB · Politics · public education
Why dropout rates are deceiving.
May 28th, 2009 1 Comment
Dropout rates are deceiving. They fail to tell the entire story but they make great headlines for folks that don’t want to get too deep.
Here is the story from my last year as Superintendent of Schools when one of the state’s major newspapers was prattling on and on about dropout rates. At the commencement ceremony [...]
Tags: commencement · dropout rates · dropouts · graduation
Every teacher should participate in commencement
May 8th, 2009 3 Comments
Picture the high school commencement ceremony at your local school district. Picture your entire Pre-K-12 faculty, wearing the robes and colors of their various institutions and degrees, silently lead the graduating seniors into the commencement hall and then staying and listening attentively while all the graduating seniors names were read.
Do you think it would help [...]
Tags: caps and gowns · ceremony · commencement · graduation · Students · teachers
How was your experience in the private sector different from the public sector?
May 4th, 2009 1 Comment
Mamy educators who come into the profession after years in the private sector find it to be culture shock. Some of these difference are good, some of them are bad.
I am curious as to how you see these differences. Anyone out there that would like to comment on the differences between public and private enterprise?
If [...]
Tags: education · private sector · public sector
