EDU 111—Perspectives on American Education: April 2012

• Charter school movement continues and vouchers return.

RESOURCES

Explaining The Consistently Inconsistent Results Of Charter Schools

Matthew DiCarlo

Shifting Talking Points among School Choice Advocates

P. L. Thomas

• Teacher quality under assault—VAM, Teacher for America, NCTQ.

• Accountability, standards, and testing remain, and increase—Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

RESOURCES

Rotten to the (Common) Core
P. L. Thomas

• Race to the Top, Opting Out of NCLB.

• Increased acquisition of technology in education, as well as increased use of technology for test-prep and testing.

CAUTION!: Technology

“Arts of the Possible,” Adrienne Rich (2001)

Universal public education has two possible—and contradictory—missions. One is the development of a literate, articulate, and well-informed citizenry so that the democratic process can continue to evolve and the promise of radical equality can be brought closer to realization. The other is the perpetuation of a class system dividing an elite, nominally “gifted” few, tracked from an early age, from a very large underclass essentially to be written off as alienated from language and science, from poetry and politics, from history and hope—toward low-wage temporary jobs. The second is the direction our society has taken. The results are devastating in terms of the betrayal of a generation of youth. The loss to the whole of society is incalculable. (p. 162)

EDU 111—Perspectives on American Education

Pages

Thursday, April 26, 2012

The role of aspirations, attitudes and behaviour in closing the educational attainment gap | Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Politics and Education Don't Mix - P.L. Thomas - National - The Atlantic

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Jack Hassard: Creationism Creeps Into Louisiana and Tennessee Science Classrooms - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Friday, April 20, 2012

Podcasts for Leaderful Schools

How state anti-evolution laws evolved - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Tennessee Skewers Teaching of Evolution in Schools — Is Your State Next? | | AlterNet

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Flunking the Test | American Journalism Review

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Testing, Tracking, and Toeing the Line

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Daily Kos: The Teaching Profession?: Of License, Compulsion, and Autonomy

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Education: What's Next?

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The Assault on Public Education

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

How Do You Know When Teaching Is Good? - Athens, GA Patch

Longevity Up in U.S., but Education Creates Disparity, Study Says - NYTimes.com

To See or Not to See: Kids, Movies, and Reality - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher

Letters of Note: C. S. Lewis on Writing

Hoodie Politics: Trayvon Martin and Racist Violence in Post-Racial America

Monday, April 2, 2012

Adrienne Rich: Artist of the Possible | Dailycensored.com