Prewritten lesson plans in Miami
Matt Pinzur’s Miami Herald story yesterday about lesson plans that the Miami-Dade system wrote for every grade, every subject for the beginning of the year (the first 10 days) is interesting. (Sample second-grade lesson in PDF.) The theory of action is that having pre-written plans will help teachers at the beginning of the year who […]
Will UCU respond to academic-freedom poll?
Expect a response this week from the University and College Union to the Times higher education supplement poll of academics in the UK indicating a large minority felt under pressure to limit their expression in teaching or research. The online article did not solicit any comment from the UK’s higher ed union, but I expect […]
A depressed AP history teacher?
Over at Revise and Dissent is Kevin Levin’s description of an AP history workshop, wherein he learns how prepared the AP history teachers of next year truly are (not). I think Levin may be wrong in his interpretation of why many of his fellow teachers were unprepared—secondary history and social studies teachers in Virginia (PDF—see […]
Want to get a copy of Accountability Frankenstein without paying?
I’m still on chapter 2, which has ballooned beyond the size I anticipated. I’m at the fun stage, filling in holes that largely involve writing what I already know. It’s akin to putting the last pieces into a jigsaw puzzle. There are three substantive chunks left and then I need to redraft the chapter conclusion. […]
Was there a difference between intelligence and achievement tests 80 years ago?
Today’s passage touched briefly on the overlapping development of intelligence and achievement tests early in the 20th century. Most of the historiography has focused on so-called IQ tests, their flaws, and their political uses. But at the same time that school districts were purchasing millions of IQ tests, they were also purchasing millions of the […]