EDU 111—Perspectives on American Education: 2012

Each group MUST provide the class a one-page handout of your topic (submit that handout to me before presenting also and email as attachment).

PLEASE submit your reference list in Word file (by email) and in hard copy before you present. (I recommend you send a draft well before you present also). Your references should be on your PP, if you do a PP.

All groups must be prepared to go the first day, but email and claim first presenting slot if you want.

PRESENTATIONS MUST BE 16-20 MINS LONG (ONLY), AND YOU SHOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH THE TECHNOLOGY YOU USE BEFORE THE PRESENTATION.

Monday

(1) Single-sex education

(2) Corporal punishment

(3) Homeschooling

(4) Foreign Language

Midterm

Midterm; self-evaluation/course midterm feedback

***[Include by mid-term your four school choices for your virtual school assignment.]

Frame the discussion below between Cody (Social Context Reformer) and the Gates Foundation ("No Excuses" Reformers) within this: "Is Poverty Destiny?"

You need to submit TWO requirements for this midterm:

(1) DUE before class October 12, email me a list of 8-10 key talking points you plan to contribute to the class discussion in class that day. These talking points should grow from the discussion below and should pull together the entire first half of this semester (topic readings, supplemental reading [Kozol], tutoring, and class discussions).

(2) Also email before October 12 a self-evaluation (as attachment) of your learning and work throughout the semester so far. What have you learned? How have you been challenged? What have we not covered yet that you want us to cover? What has been the quality of your work and engagement in the course so far? Please assign yourself a letter grade for the course so far. Feel free to offer positive and critical feedback on the course and my teaching as well in order to insure the course fulfills your needs and expectations for the remainder of the semester.

Class discussion: Anthony Cody education reform debate with the Gates Foundation (GF):

Cody

(1) Dialogue With the Gates Foundation: How Do We Build the Teaching Profession?
(2) Responding to the Gates Foundation: How do we Consider Evidence of Learning in Teacher Evaluations?
(3) Dialogue with the Gates Foundation: Can Schools Defeat Poverty by Ignoring It?
(4) Dialogue With the Gates Foundation: What Is the Purpose of K-12 Education?
(5) The Dialogue With the Gates Foundation: What Happens When Profits Drive Reform?

GF

(1) The Gates Foundation Responds: How do we Build the Teaching Profession
(2) The Gates Foundation Writes: How Do We Consider Evidence of Student Learning in Teacher Evaluation?
(3) The Gates Foundation Responds: Poverty Does Matter--But It Is Not Destiny
(4) The Gates Foundation Writes: K-12 Education: An Opportunity Catalyst
(5) The Gates Foundation Responds: The Role of the Marketplace in Education

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Behind the SAT numbers - The Washington Post

Palmetto Educators Network: How Do Charter Schools Compare to “Schools with St...

Palmetto Educators Network: How Do Charter Schools Compare to “Schools with St...: How Do Charter Schools Compare to “Schools with Students Like Ours” in South Carolina? Using the South Carolina School Report Card sys...

Monday, September 24, 2012

Stuff White People Like: Education Reform | National Education Policy Center

Superintendents fight Ohio’s ‘Third Grade Guarantee’ - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Palmetto Educators Network: Charter Advocacy Misses Point, Misleads

Palmetto Educators Network: Charter Advocacy Misses Point, Misleads: In an Op-Ed focusing on how the Chicago teachers' strike is relevant to SC education concerns , I offered one point that included a caution ...

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Daily Kos: Essential Reading/Viewing for "No Excuses" Reformers

Bolton: South Carolina still trails in education - Warren Bolton - TheState.com

Editorial: School equity suit an indictment of SC political system - Editorial - TheState.com

Black: SC Supreme Court has responsibility to act in school equity case - Editorial Columns - TheState.com

Saturday, September 22, 2012

How our love for numbers warps school reform - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Friday, September 21, 2012

Top 10 - Bully Free World - the Bully Project campaign for children with special needds

“The Difficult Thirty Percent” Redux: The Equity Gap 2012 | Dailycensored.com

Civil Rights Project Reports Deepening Segregation and Challenges Educators and Political Leaders to Develop Positive Policies — The Civil Rights Project at UCLA

The Urgency of Now | The Schott 50 State Report on Public Education and Black Males 2012

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Thomas: Chicago teachers’ strike raises issues important to S.C. - Editorial Columns - TheState.com

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Urgency of Now

'Corridor of shame' debated before SC Supreme Court

Is poverty destiny? Ideology vs. evidence in school reform - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

#TroubleontheEstate: how can we build support for ending poverty without resorting to stereotypes? | Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Monday, September 17, 2012

Corridor of Shame and the deficit view of poverty

How does the documentary Corridor of Shame portray people and children in poverty?

Place the portrayal of poverty and people in poverty in the context of the following:

"Return of the Deficit," Curt Dudley-Marling

"The Myth of the Culture of Poverty," Paul Gorski

"No Excuses" and the Culture of Shame: Why Metrics Don't Matter

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Daily Kos: Is Poverty Destiny?: Ideology v. Evidence in Education Reform

20 years later, debate rages on over ‘minimally adequate’ education - Education - TheState.com

Saturday, September 15, 2012

The Chicago Teachers’ Strike, in Perspective - NYTimes.com

Friday, September 14, 2012

Change of Subject: Why teachers have test anxiety, too

Lean Production: What’s Really Hurting Public Education | Jacobin

Daily Kos: Why you should care about what happens to the poor

Daily Kos: On "Hostile Rhetoric," Laziness, and the Education Debate

Midterm: Anthony Cody/ Gates Foundation Reform Dialogue

Midterm; self-evaluation/course midterm feedback

Class discussion: Anthony Cody education reform debate with the Gates Foundation (GF):

Cody

(1) Dialogue With the Gates Foundation: How Do We Build the Teaching Profession?
(2) Responding to the Gates Foundation: How do we Consider Evidence of Learning in Teacher Evaluations?
(3) Dialogue with the Gates Foundation: Can Schools Defeat Poverty by Ignoring It?
(4) Dialogue With the Gates Foundation: What Is the Purpose of K-12 Education?
(5) The Dialogue With the Gates Foundation: What Happens When Profits Drive Reform?

GF

(1) The Gates Foundation Responds: How do we Build the Teaching Profession
(2) The Gates Foundation Writes: How Do We Consider Evidence of Student Learning in Teacher Evaluation?
(3) The Gates Foundation Responds: Poverty Does Matter--But It Is Not Destiny
(4) The Gates Foundation Writes: K-12 Education: An Opportunity Catalyst
(5) The Gates Foundation Responds: The Role of the Marketplace in Education

The Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Brookings Study Does Not Support Claim that Vouchers Boosted College Enrollment | National Education Policy Center

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Can you identify the bias?

Thomas B. Fordham Institute

NEPC

The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice

Hoover Institute

Monday, September 10, 2012

Rethinking the achievement gap: Lessons from the African diaspora - The Root DC Live - The Washington Post

Daily Kos: Daring to Look Behind the Curtain: The Drop-Out Crisis Redux

The achievement gap: By the numbers - The Washington Post

Sunday, September 9, 2012

High-Performing Charter Schools: Beating the Odds, or Beating the Test?

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Why kids hate school — subject by subject - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Friday, September 7, 2012

Why All Ed Reform Fails | Alternet

Outing ACT: Test-and-Punish Doesn't Educate, but It's Profitable for Testing Companies

Kliebard, Herbert M. (2004). The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893–1958 (3rd ed.). New York: RoutledgeFalmer.

Kliebard, Herbert M. (2004). The Struggle for the American Curriculum, 1893–1958 (3rd ed.). New York: RoutledgeFalmer.

Education Review-a journal of book reviews

Kliebard devotes the bulk of his book to describing four relatively stable and distinct “interest groups” that competed over seven decades for control of the schools through the curriculum. Humanists embraced “the systematic development of reasoning power” (p. 9) as well as the Western cultural heritage. Developmentalists “proceeded basically from the assumption that the natural order of development in the child was the most significant and scientifically defensible basis for determining what should be taught” (p. 11). Social efficiency educators wanted schools to employ the “scientific management” techniques of supervision, accountability, precise measurement, and efficiency and to differentiate education according to students’ perceived needs, abilities, and probable life courses. Social meliorists wanted to use schooling as a lever for societal progress.

Bias in the SAT?

New Evidence of Racial Bias on SAT | Inside Higher Ed

Why Scotland's approach to publicly funded education works | Education | The Guardian

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

On "Hostile Rhetoric," Laziness, and the Education Debate

On "Hostile Rhetoric," Laziness, and the Education Debate

FCAT, PARCC: High-stakes testing by any other name - Other Views - MiamiHerald.com

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Students of Color Still Receiving Unequal Education | Alternet

Little Rock 9 – Zinn Education Project

Saturday, September 1, 2012

"No Excuses" and the Culture of Shame: The Miseducation of Our Nation's Children | Alternet

Friday, August 31, 2012

Daily Kos: "No Excuses" and the Culture of Shame: Why Metrics Don't Matter

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

What do the available data tell us about NYC charter school teachers & their jobs?

Monday, August 27, 2012

W. E. B. Du Bois: Online Resources (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Daily Kos: Why Tenure and Unions?: On Democracy and Equity in the U.S.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Time as Capital: The Rise of the Frantic Class

Alfie Kohn on Twitter

Alfie Kohn ‏@alfiekohn

Philip Jackson: Kids sit around tables but usually must remain silent. Key lesson of US classrooms is “how to be alone in a crowd”

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

What happens if...?

What happens to this course if the grades for the class are restricted the following way?:

A = 2

B = 10

C = 3

Consider this in light of reading Foucault.

Everything You've Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong | Mother Jones

Monday, August 20, 2012

Education Reform (graphic journalism)

The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum: The High Price of Education Reform (Episode I)

Murky Waters: The Education Debate in New Orleans

The Finnish Alternative: Reclaiming Public Education From Corporate Reform

Education as “Politically Contested Spaces”

Six Degrees of Insanity: "Reforming" Education | Alternet

Alternative Assignment: Education Advocacy Assignment

Education Advocacy Assignment:

1) Identify three education-related bills on the federal level about which you have some interest and/or concern. Submit those three choices by the due date to the instructor. The instructor will then assign you one of those three options on a first-come, first-serve basis. No more than two students will be permitted to analyze the same bill.

2) Next, answer the following questions about the bill (2-3 double-spaced pages minimum). Make sure to attach a copy of the first page of the proposed bill to your paper.

a) Summary of the bill (a paragraph will suffice).

b) What does this bill propose to do?

c) Do you favor or oppose the bill? Explain.

d) What might be some of the opposing viewpoints (to your own) regarding the bill?

e) Does this bill illustrate any awareness of community or cultural diversity? Why or why not?

3) Identify a United States senator or representative from South Carolina (or your home state) and prepare a letter telling him/her whether you think he/she should or should not support the bill. Be clear and concise in your reasoning (1 single-spaced page maximum). Attach a copy of your letter to your paper.

4) Identify a newspaper in South Carolina (or your home state) and write a letter to the editor regarding your viewpoints about the bill. Give your letter a brief title. Do no exceed 250 words. Attach your letter to the editor to your paper.

It is your decision whether to actually submit your letter to a senator/representative and/or a newspaper editor.

Useful websites for this assignment:

Search Current Legislation

Use the subject/keyword “education” for best results:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issuesaction/bill/

http://thomas.loc.gov/

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/legislation.xpd

How Can I Contact my Legislators?

Use your zip code to find your legislator. Click on the names listed to read a bio and see contact information:

http://www.votesmart.org/

Sample Letters

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/studentpage/Who/sample_letters.shtml

Greenville News tips for writing a Letter to the Editor (can be applied generally to all newspapers)

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/99999999/OPINION/50715007/Tips-For-Getting-Published

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/article/99999999/OPINION/50715008/What-You-Should-Know-About-Letters-To-The-Editor

Thursday, August 16, 2012

5 People Who Bravely Fought Christian Takeover of America | Alternet

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Evolution as Design | National Education Policy Center

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Topic 7: Current Issues and the Future of Education

Topic 7: Current Issues and the Future of Education

Recommended by Larry Cuban

CCSS

See Susan Ohanian's collection of CCSS posts

"Rotten to the (Common) Core," James Arnold

Assorted blogs related to CCSS by P. L. Thomas

TFA

Collected research/commentaries on TFA at PEN

Assorted blog posts on TFA by P. L. Thomas

NCLB, RTTT, Opting Out of NCLB

Assorted research/commentary on accountability at PEN

Assorted blog posts on NCLB by P. L. Thomas

Blog posts on RTTT by P. L. Thomas

Charter schools

Research/commentary on charter schools (and school choice) at PEN

Numerous blog posts about charter schools by P. L. Thomas

Merit Pay

"The Folly of Merit Pay," Education Week, September 17, 2003, Alfie Kohn

"Against 'Competitiveness,'" Education Week, September 19, 2007, Alfie Kohn

Topic 6: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Topic 6: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment

Curriculum

National Curriculum or National Standards?

Preparing for Today and Tomorrow, Elliot W. Eisner

What Students Need to Learn (Educational Leadership)

Curriculum and Consciousness, Maxine Greene (1971)

Diversity and Inclusion, Maxine Greene (1993)

Schooling as if Democracy Matters (Journal of Educational Controversy)

Instruction

Busting Myths about Differentiated Instruction, Wormeli, Rick

Response: Several Ways To Differentiate Instruction, Larry Ferlazzo

Alfie Kohn:

"Poor Teaching for Poor Children...in the Name of Reform," Education Week, April 27, 2011

"It's Not What We Teach; It's What They Learn," Education Week, September 10, 2008

"Unconditional Teaching," Educational Leadership, September 2005

"Getting-Hit-on-the-Head Lessons," Education Week, September 7, 2005

Assessment and grades

"The Case Against Grades," Educational Leadership, November 2011, Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn on Standards and Testing: https://www.alfiekohn.org/essays-standards-testing/

"The Trouble with Rubrics," English Journal, March 2006, Alfie Kohn

Textbooks

Textbook Selection and Respect for Diversity in the United States, SUSAN WATTS-TAFFE

How Do Teachers Use Textbooks

How Texas Inflicts Bad Textbooks on Us, Gail Collins

Teaching content v. teaching students

Hidden curriculum

Technology in education

State and national assessment

Popham

Topic 5: Legal, Political, and Financial

Topic 5: Legal, Political, and Financial

The Constitution and Federal Jurisdiction in American Education, Kerry L. Morgan

Role Of Federal Government In Public Education: Historical Perspectives, Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins and Margaret Hawkins Hill

The Evolving Federal Role in Education: An Introductory Essay, Don Wolfensberger (2005)

CATO Institute: Refuting Federal Role in Education

Key Issue: Prayer in School (Religion and Education)

An old debate over religion in school is opening up again

Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools, USDOE (February 7, 2003)

ACLU Resources

Key Issues: School Choice, Private Schools, Homeschooling, Charter Schools

Charter Schools Not the Answer, Especially if We Fail to Identify the Question, Thomas

Comparing Private Schools and Public Schools Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling (NCES, USDOE, 2006)

Private School Costs, Bruce Baker

Charter Schools, Bruce Baker

Liberals, Don’t Homeschool Your Kids, D. Goldstein

See related: Response to Goldstein, The Atlantic

Multiple Choice (CREDO, 2009)

Topic 4: Diversity, Multiculturalism, Poverty/Privilege, Class, and Race

Topic 4: Diversity, Multiculturalism, Poverty/Privilege, Class, and Race

Unlearning Deficit Ideology and the Scornful Gaze:Thoughts on Authenticating the Class Discourse in Education, Paul Gorski

Good Intentions Are Not Enough, Paul Gorski

Equality of Educational Opportunity: A 40-Year Retrospective

“Poverty and Education: A Critical Analysis of the Ruby Payne Phenomenon,” Jennifer C. Ng & John L. Rury (July 18, 2006), TCR

“Poverty and Testing in Education: ‘The Present Scientifico-legal Complex,’” Thomas (2011)

“The Myth of the Culture of Poverty,” P. Gorski (2008)

“Return of the Deficit,” C. Dudley-Marling (2007)

Key Issue: At-Risk Students

Helping At-Risk Students Meet Standards: A Synthesis of Evidence-Based Classroom Practices (2002)

Helping at-risk students succeed: A psychologist-designed program that supports learning among at-risk kids gains nationwide momentum, Tori DeAngelis(February 2012, Vol 43, No. 2, page 46) [APA]

Key Issue: LGBT Students and Education

ACLU: LGBT Students and Education

Students defend gay right, P. Slevin (2005)

Sexual Orientation and Human Rights

Students: Know Your Rights (Southern Poverty Law Center)

Debunking Education Myths About Blacks

MLK on Poverty in America - YouTube

A Talk to Teachers, James Baldwin

James Baldwin on Education

Topic 3: Historical Foundations of Education

Topic 3: Historical Foundations of Education

120 Years ofAmerican Education:A Statistical Portrait

Thomas Jefferson on education

Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841)

Historical Foundations (PPT)

Key Issue: Corporal Punishment

“Is Corporal Punishment an Effective Means of Discipline?” (APA)

“Perspectives on the Effects of Corporal Punishment: Comment on Gershoff (2002),” G. W. Holden (2002)

Key Issue: Single-Sex Education

Single-sec education: Pros and cons

“The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling,” Halpern, et al. (2011)

NYT related coverage of Halpern, et al.

Progressive education: An overview

John Dewey’s Theories of Education, W. F. Warde (1960)

Experience and Education, John Dewey

Key Issue: Parental Public School Choice

“Fixing the Milwaukee Public Schools: The Limits of Parent-Driven Reform,” David Dodenhoff (2007)

Topic 2: Educational Philosophies

Topic 2: Educational Philosophies

Overview (Oregon State University)

Theories of learning (OSU)

Learning Theories

Educational philosophies (chart)

Philosophy and Education Continuum

“Foucault and Education Reform,” D. M. Cheshier

Michel Foucault. Discipline & Punish (1975), Panopticism

Topic 1: The Teaching Profession

Topic 1: The Teaching Profession

History of teacher education

Diane Ravitch, Ph.D.—A Brief History of Teacher Professionalism

Only a Teacher: Teaching Timeline (PBS)

Merit pay, VAM evaluation: Resources

VAM evaluation of teachers, Bruce Baker

“Of Rocks and Hard Places—The Challenge of Maxine Greene’s Mystification in Teacher Education,” P. L. Thomas

Is teaching a profession?

“Is Teaching a Profession?” G.M. Inlow (1956)

“Making Teaching a Profession,” J. Epstein (2010), Inside Higher Ed

What Teacher Tenure Is — And What It’s Not, neatoday

“Is teacher tenure a myth?,” V. Strauss, The Answer Sheet, The Washington Post

Teachers’ Unions: An Overview

NCTQ, Bruce Baker

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

Podcasts for Leaderful Schools

Volume 5 Episode12: Dr. Paul Thomas: Educating the "Others"April 19, 2012 9:00 PM

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

zinnedproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/41testingtracking.pdf

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Education: What's Next?

• 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

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

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Daily Kos: The Tragedy of Education Transformation: Leadership without Expertise

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Daily Kos: Successful School?: More than Data, No Miracles

Thursday, March 15, 2012

How We Cured “The Culture of Poverty,” Not Poverty Itself | Truthout

Monday, March 12, 2012

Education Department Orientation: Wednesday, March 21, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

THINKING ABOUT TEACHING?
Education Department Orientation
Wednesday, March 21
4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Hipp Hall 107

At this meeting, you will receive the needed information to be admitted into the program, learn more about the transition points as you progress through the program, and the teaching internship. Please plan to attend if you wish to explore certification options or intend to teach in any of the following areas:

* Elementary Education (Grades 2-6)
* Secondary fields (Grades 9-12):
Biology, Chemistry, English, Mathematics,
Physics, or Social Studies
* Languages (Grades PK-12): French, Latin, or Spanish
* Music Education (Grades PK-12)

For more information, please contact charmaine.moore@furman.edu

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Daily Kos: Separate, Unequal...and Distracted

Monday, March 5, 2012

A LETTER TO THE SEATTLE WA. SCHOOL BOARD | DCG MENTORING

Friday, March 2, 2012

Could school prayer bill allow Satanic messages in schools? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Could school prayer bill allow Satanic messages in schools? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Notice THIRD paragraph...

Politicians should know the law, at least, right?

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Study: Rich more likely to take candy from babies - The Washington Post

Study: Rich more likely to take candy from babies - The Washington Post

Consider these findings related to the stereotypes about people living in poverty.

Also:

Self-Interest Spurs Society’s ‘Elite’ To Lie, Cheat, Study Finds

Monday, February 27, 2012

Daily Kos: The Education Games: Reform as Double-Speak

Friday, February 24, 2012

Hyper-accountability, Burnout and Blame: A TFA Corps Member Speaks Out - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Resources re: group presentations 2/23/12

TFA resources:

http://palmettoeducatorsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/02/resources-teach-for-america-think-tanks.html

Public, Private, Charter resources:

http://palmettoeducatorsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/02/resources-private-v-public.html

http://palmettoeducatorsnetwork.blogspot.com/2011/02/resources-charter-schools.html

Schools’ Effectiveness Varies By What They Do, Not What They Are

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Daily Kos: Do as I Say, Not as I Do: Why Authority Fails

Thursday, February 16, 2012

HBO: Hard Times at Douglass High: Home

Portrait of a Baltimore School That Is Left Behind - NYTimes.com

Phil Kovacs Responds to the Latest Research on Teach For America - Living in Dialogue - Education Week Teacher

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Midterm

DUE before class Thursday (March 1).

Send by email as attachments (two separate attachments):

(1) Self-evaluation: Discuss in about 2 pp. (dbl-spaced, 12 pt font, 1"
margins) what you have learns so far this semester, how engaged you have been
in the course work (with specific examples), and what GRADE you believe you
deserve at midterm. Attach a file labeled with you three initials and
"selfeval": ex. ABC.selfeval.docx

(2) Class discussion: Email as an attachment a list of 6-10 topics to focus a midterm class
discussion focusing on the content addressed through midterm in EDU 111. This
should be a list with some detail about the topics--what you want to discuss,
etc. Attach a file labeled with you three initials and "midterm": ex.
ABC.midterm.docx

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