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Category Archives: School Program
Latins: Computer Science in Schools
Earlier this week, 2-17-2014, to be exact, I heard a piece on NPR, “A Push to Learn Computer Science Learning, Even at an Early Age,” The import of the article laments that Computer Science is paid scant attention in the … Continue reading
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Math Requirements
Some time ago, long enough that the link has been lost, a high school friend in South Dakota sent me an interesting link to a guest editorial in a Watertown, South Dakota paper. The author, Fred Deutsch, a school board … Continue reading
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The Ontario Model
Forty years ago, or forty-one perhaps, Genny and I took the long way ‘round returning from Sioux Falls, SD to Payette, ID. We drove north to Winnipeg, turned left, and followed Canada 1 clear across. We dropped south to Seattle … Continue reading
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Hotspot Schools
I want to make something clear: I do not agree with the Reformist’s premise that American Public Education is broken beyond repair and must be reinvented from the ground up, nor do I agree with their methods for “fixing” it, … Continue reading
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Math and Science
I am listening to NPR’s Science Friday. The panel of experts is discussing and bemoaning how few of today’s youth pursue science in high school, college, and beyond. This is nothing new. The experts were discussing and bemoaning the same … Continue reading
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College for All? (2)
In “Making It in America,” Adam Davidson explores the problems of American manufacturing, using two young people as his vehicle. Maddie has no education beyond high school and no specialized skills. Luke has a good math background, three years of … Continue reading
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Dicta
The primary dictum that should guide all policy, all practice, and all reform of them is, of course, as it is in medicine: Do No Harm. The next and most proximate dictum: It’s the Curriculum, Stupid! All else must follow … Continue reading
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R. I. P. National Board Certification in Idaho
The 12/23/2011 Idaho Statesman reports that as a result of legislation passed in the 2010 session, Idaho will discontinue funding the stipend ($2000/year for 5 years) that is paid to teachers who receive National Board Certification, having completed all of … Continue reading
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Finland
They say that comparisons are odious. Nevertheless, the educational achievements of Finland and the U. S. are frequently compared by Reformists (Politicians, Pundits, Polemicists, and all too many Professors who should know better and perhaps do), and the U. S. … Continue reading
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Khan Academy
The August, 2011 Wired article, “The New Way To Be a Fifth Grader” is subtitled “How the Khan Academy is changing the rules of education.” It may be doing that, or more likely it is not, but certainly there is … Continue reading
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