School Improvement Articles
1: S Standardized Testing: A Race to Nowhere
Race To Nowhere is an excellent description of the standardized testing movement. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, increased the role of the federal government in public education and also expanded the role of standardized testing.
2: Teachers’ Union Complicit in Union Busting?
Should teachers' unions be advocates for Race to Top funding? Should teachers' unions support merit pay?
When a school's faculty is told, without consultation with staff, that it will be getting a merit pay program the next year and find out the union leadership is behind it, one wonders who the union represents.
When a school's faculty is told, without consultation with staff, that it will be getting a merit pay program the next year and find out the union leadership is behind it, one wonders who the union represents.
3: How American Public Education Became A Doomsday Machine
In dumbing down the country, our Education Establishment dumbed itself down. And then the machinery got stuck on auto-pilot.
4: When Boys Don’t Read, Here’s What To Do
Boys not wanting to read is a big problem. An even bigger scandal is that, all too often, boys are not taught to read in the first place.
5: Join the Educational Revolution!
Many students receive the necessary tools to overcome struggles in public education by the support of parents, teachers and interventions. There are a great number of students who do not receive additional support for whatever reason. This fact needs to change very rapidly.
6: Living or Learning Problem: Do You Care?
Sometimes our kids have living problems not learning problems in education today.We cannot have an educational system that is not human.
7: A Checklist Of Ten Education Ideas We Might Want To Reconsider
Why are many public schools so mediocre? Sometimes there seems to be a surfeit of flawed ideas. Here is one critic's list of bad actors.
8: The Future of Educational Technology - Education 3.0
Thinking of what education might look like in the next decade, one quickly realizes that the trends in technology are leaving a large number of our students behind. We no longer live in an age of visible movement when it comes to progress and innovation. Today is an age of exponential change. New and ever-improving technologies are popping up every day and in every corner of society.
Educating the best and the brightest in this brave new world will take a new and improved educational paradigm. Allowing our educational tools to age in the corner of the classroom will be the mistake that may cost us our future. Throwing away masses of children to inequitable access will ensure that we languish at the bottom of the global pool of employable workers for decades to come.
Educating the best and the brightest in this brave new world will take a new and improved educational paradigm. Allowing our educational tools to age in the corner of the classroom will be the mistake that may cost us our future. Throwing away masses of children to inequitable access will ensure that we languish at the bottom of the global pool of employable workers for decades to come.
9: It Will Take A Teacher
“For 31 years I have stood in front of a classroom and looked into children’s faces. From that perspective I see what they sometimes fail to see – potentia
10: "REMEDIES" 21st Century Approaches for Fixing Education
My article, "REMEDIES" 21st Century Approaches for Fixing Education introduces the reader to my personal recommendations for reforming the preschool and K-4 education system in the United States.
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